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From a 20-year-old East Colfax original to a new outpost inside Denver International Airport, Atomic Provisions runs four brands without losing what makes each one distinct. Here's how the Denver-born restaurant group built consistency into cross-training and technology instead of hoping for it.
Every delivery app wants its own version of your menu, with its own markup baked in by hand. Here's why that breaks down, and what a single source-of-truth menu actually looks like.
From a quiet Tuesday to a sold-out game day, here's how bars near campuses, arenas, and stadiums keep service fast and protect revenue when demand swings 10x overnight.
From walkouts to hidden processing fees, here's what bar and taproom owners really evaluate when shopping for a new POS — and the questions worth asking before you sign.
Franchise brands aren't just juggling multiple locations — they're juggling multiple independent operators under one brand agreement. That structure creates POS needs a standard multi-unit setup doesn't have to solve, starting with how franchise fees and royalties actually get collected.
Restaurant group POS searches mostly turn up single-location marketing or enterprise platforms built for chains ten times your size. Here's how to think about what a growing restaurant group actually needs — starting with the visibility problem nearly every group names first — and which GoTab setup fits where you are today.
If you're searching for an "enterprise POS system," you're probably running a restaurant group that's outgrown single-store software. Here's what real buyers actually ask for — starting with one consolidated view across every location — and what separates an enterprise-grade platform from a bigger version of the same thing.
A 19-year-old scheduling software company never raised outside funding, never added AI hype — and keeps beating better-funded competitors on customer loyalty. Here's the strategy, and how any independent restaurant can copy it.
See how Pau Hana uses opsi to centralize more than 300 recipes, streamline training and maintain consistent standards across multiple restaurants. With better visibility into purchasing and recipe costs, Chef Curtis Dettman recovered $5,000 in vendor overcharges and built an operation that can scale without his constant oversight.
Chief Growth Officer Mateen Habib explains GoTab’s indefinite rate lock option for eligible operators vs free hardware and introductory offers that have an expiration date.
A single delivery order that touches three different vendor kitchens is one of the harder problems a food hall has to solve. Here's how multi-vendor delivery aggregation actually works — and where it still needs a human in the loop.
When a single tab touches multiple vendors, tips don't always land with the team that earned them. Here's why mixed-tab tip pooling breaks — and what to look for in a POS that actually solves it.
Every food hall has to decide whether loyalty lives at the parent level, the vendor level, or both — and who ends up paying for the discount. Here's how to think through it.
Every food hall operator eventually has to choose between a blended processing rate and interchange-plus. The choice sounds minor. At food hall transaction volumes, it usually isn't.
GoTab’s integration with Ready Theatre Systems brings movie tickets, concessions, dine-in service and payments together on a single guest tab, creating a more connected cinema experience for operators like Schulman Theatres.
See how Aloma Cinema and Grill grew net sales 21 percent and cut labor hours 15 percent with mobile ordering, straight from GM Jim Matthes' Reddit AMA.
A Master Sommelier turned automation exec explains how smart bar systems cut wait times, protect pour cost, and free up staff — without replacing bartenders.
Most POS support models assume a weekday, 9-to-5 business. Dine-in cinemas do the opposite — their busiest hours are Friday and Saturday nights, exactly when many vendors' support queues go quiet. Here's what real 24/7 human support should look like, and why it matters most on the nights it's hardest to get.
Most POS systems route even simple price and promotion changes through a vendor support queue. Here's what a dine-in cinema should be able to change itself — and where guardrails still make sense.
Hybrid dine-in cinemas that add a bar, golf simulator, bowling, or arcade often run guests through three disconnected systems in a single visit. Here's what a single-tab system should support — including guest-side splitting for large parties — and why it matters for spend.
