For many breweries, offering food is a challenge. Building a kitchen requires significant investment, compliance with health regulations, and ongoing operational costs. This is why hosting food trucks has become an attractive alternative.
Should Your Brewery Host Food Trucks?
For many breweries, offering food is a challenge. Building a kitchen requires significant investment, compliance with health regulations, and ongoing operational costs. This is why hosting food trucks has become an attractive alternative. Food trucks bring variety, convenience, and added revenue potential to breweries. However, managing food trucks efficiently requires a system that keeps operations smooth for both the brewery and the food vendors.
With GoTab, breweries can integrate food trucks effortlessly while enhancing the guest experience. Here’s how
Automated Payouts & Remittances
One of the biggest challenges for breweries working with food trucks is handling payments and revenue sharing. Traditional setups often involve manual calculations, cash transactions, or settling up at the end of the night. GoTab’s automated remittance system eliminates the hassle.
With a smart Food Truck POS integration, payments from guests can be automatically split between the brewery and the food truck. This means no awkward conversations, no end-of-night calculations—just automatic, accurate payouts. For breweries that take a percentage of food sales, this is a game-changer.
Scannable QR Menus with Smart Order Routing
A frictionless ordering experience benefits both breweries and food trucks. GoTab enables scannable QR menus that let guests order directly from their phones. Whether they’re scanning a QR code at their table or at the food truck itself, orders are automatically routed to the correct vendor.
This ensures that brewery staff and food truck teams aren’t juggling misplaced orders or misdirected payments. Guests get a seamless experience, choosing food and drinks from a single, unified platform while ensuring the correct kitchen (brewery or food truck) prepares the order. For breweries, having a modern Brewery POS that integrates with food trucks enhances efficiency and customer satisfaction.
More Efficiency, Less Hassle for Your Brewery
Beyond payments and ordering, a well-integrated brewery and food truck POS system keeps operations smooth. With GoTab, breweries can set up temporary menus for food trucks, track orders in real-time, and even sync guest tabs across food and drink orders.
Instead of food truck owners struggling with their own separate payment system, they can plug directly into GoTab’s platform, ensuring a unified experience. This means faster service, less confusion, and happier guests.
Should You Host Food Trucks at Your Brewery?
The answer depends on your business goals, but for many breweries, food trucks provide a win-win solution. They add variety to your offerings, attract a wider audience, and eliminate the complexities of running a kitchen. With GoTab’s seamless food truck integration, breweries can streamline payments, enhance guest ordering, and create an effortless partnership with food trucks.
If you want to keep your brewery focused on what it does best—brewing great beer—while offering high-quality food options, integrating food trucks with a smart POS system is the way to go.
Situated “in the heart of it all, yet tranquil enough to make you feel away from it all too,” The Limelight Hotel Snowmass offers 99 hotel rooms and 11 residences, as well as footsteps-to-gondola access in winter and summer — right in the middle of Snowmass Base Village.
The Situation
Especially over the last few years, the Limelight Hotels IT team had witnessed a significant shift to contactless technology in the hospitality industry. After evaluating friction points in the guest journey, aligning with modern technology platforms in their restaurant was determined to be an effective way to offer elevated contactless dining experiences to their guests while also evolving their technology platforms to continue to support long-term company goals. Limelight Hotel partnered with GoTab to provide an enhanced on-demand dining experience on par with the brand’s reputation for exceptional guest service.
The Solution
Reducing Staff Touch Points Without Sacrificing Guest Experience
Guests are now able to begin a tab from their room or the property’s restaurant by scanning a QR code, texting a link to friends or family members on the ski slope to add in their orders, then meeting up together at the patio or lodge to enjoy their meal and après ski festivities without interruption. By streamlining tasks like inputting orders and processing payments, this eliminates friction for hotel staff and allows them to focus on delivering renowned guest service for a memorable experience. Since partnering with GoTab, Limelight Snowmass has consistently seen higher check averages and sales.
“We found the Point of Sale platforms we were looking at offered the guest and staff limited opportunities to further reduce touch points or improve the traditional restaurant experience. The GoTab platform enabled the guest to take an active role over the flow of their experience while simultaneously reducing touch points and further streamlining restaurant operations.”Nick Giglio, Manager of Hotel IT Operations, The Little Nell Hotel Group
According to the Limelight Hotels team, some of the other platforms that were evaluated were either missing some of the pieces they were looking for, had weak customer support models, or had little willingness to develop integrations to existing hotel platforms already in place. To that end, GoTab integrated with cloud-based platform, Infor. Together, GoTab and Infor are providing dynamic solutions to support central, efficient service across hotel amenities and deliver exceptional guest experiences.
“Previously, guests would call down to the restaurant to begin an order from their room or while they were out enjoying the ski slopes. Using GoTab, guests can now place orders from anywhere on the resort, giving them the on-demand service they want without interrupting their day. GoTab empowers us to give control to the guest, reducing touch points and streamlining overall restaurant operations, making Limelight Hotel the resort of choice for Snowmass.”Nick Giglio, Manager of Hotel IT Operations, The Little Nell Hotel Group
Since introducing GoTab, The Limelight Hotel has seen a consistent level of upsells and items sold per check resulting in additional revenue capture. They have been able to maintain service levels in their restaurants during periods when there was reduced staffing available without significantly diminishing the guest experience.
The Benefits
Eliminate Phone Orders – Take Orders from the Slopes. Guests can start a tab from their room or on the mountain without interrupting the flow of their day.
Future-Proofed Technologies – Delivering elevated contactless ordering via integration with the Infor hotel management platform.
Eliminating Friction in the Guest Journey – Maintaining service levels during periods of reduced staff without diminishing the guest experience.
Eliminating Friction in the Guest Journey – Maintaining service levels during periods of reduced staff without diminishing the guest experience.
Eliminating Friction in the Guest Journey – Maintaining service levels during periods of reduced staff without diminishing the guest experience.
Eliminating Friction in the Guest Journey – Maintaining service levels during periods of reduced staff without diminishing the guest experience.
Eliminating Friction in the Guest Journey – Maintaining service levels during periods of reduced staff without diminishing the guest experience.
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