With Orders.co POS, a self-service kiosk, and a commission-free ordering website, Spartan’s Grill now processes more direct orders than any third-party delivery app — keeping an estimated $10,000+ in annual commissions in the business.
Walk behind the counter of a busy independent restaurant, and you’ll usually find the same thing: a row of tablets. One for DoorDash, one for Uber Eats, maybe one for Grubhub, a laptop or screen for the website orders, and a pad of paper for whatever came in over the phone. Each one beeps on […]
If your GloriaFood online ordering system has been running quietly in the background for years, switching probably feels annoying, risky, and easy to put off. But with GloriaFood shutting down, the worst move is waiting until your ordering links stop working. Here is the part most owners miss: this is not just about picking a […]
When your POS, invoices, inventory counts, and recipe costs don’t line up, your food cost reports can look “wrong” even when each system is telling part of the truth. This guide breaks down the most common causes—timing issues, count errors, miscoded invoices, waste, portion inconsistency, and sales mapping—and gives you a practical workflow and 30-day plan to bring your numbers back into alignment.
A customer searches for your restaurant online and sees a burger listed at $12. They walk in, and the printed menu says $14. A delivery app is still showing a lunch special that sold out two hours ago, and your kitchen is buried in a low-margin dish that barely covers its own cost. None of […]
Catering is the rare growth move that can pay for itself in a single order — and the fastest way to blow up a lunch rush. Which outcome a restaurant gets has less to do with the food than with whether there’s a system behind the order. Restaurant catering can be one of the most […]
A lot of restaurant owners use “POS” and “online ordering system” like they mean the same thing. They don’t. One helps you run the restaurant. The other helps customers place orders with you digitally. The confusion usually starts the same way. A restaurant adds online orders, then a delivery app, then another, then a website […]
One flat price everywhere sounds fair — until commissions, packaging, and modifiers eat the margin. Here’s how Mexican restaurants build channel-specific pricing that protects profit without confusing customers.
A plain-English guide to how restaurant POS systems and POS software actually work — what they connect to, where they break down, and how an all-in-one POS reduces daily chaos for small restaurants.
Best GloriaFood Alternative for Pizza Shops: How to Keep Your Direct Orders For years, many pizza shops ran their online ordering through GloriaFood. It was simple, affordable, and let them take direct orders without handing over a commission to a marketplace. Now that GloriaFood is being discontinued, those same owners have a new problem: how […]
Most pizza marketing advice focuses on getting attention. The real money is in repeat orders. Here’s how independent pizzerias build a repeat-order system with loyalty, direct ordering, and smart promotions.
Ask a restaurant owner what eats up their week, and almost nobody says “the menu.” But walk into most kitchens during a rush, and the menu is quietly behind half the problems: an item that sold out an hour ago but is still live online, a topping priced one way in the POS and another […]
