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From the beginning, GoTab’s strategy has been clear: we are a cloud-based, end-to-end hospitality platform for ordering, making, delivery and payment in high-volume, large format venues. With an API and dedicated support, the GoTab platform functions as a true aggregator of best-in-class restaurant technology partners.
Next month the largest craft brewing industry gathering in the country is happening in Nashville and we’re here for it. We’ll be there in real life showing why some of the most successful craft breweries in the country like Pryes, Other Half and Maui Brewing are using the GoTab platform to provide a frictionless ordering and payment experience that helps them sell more beers without having to add more staff.
Our very own Rick Malthaner took a walk down memory lane with The Beer Mighty Things Podcast. They talk about his start in the industry many moons ago and all he’s seen - and share how he’s still as enthusiastic as ever. They also dive into the history of POS systems, his kegerator story and his genius kegged seltzer hack!
This 7,500-square-foot food hall is unique from all others in its surrounding area as it is home to the only rooftop bar and self-pour beverage wall in the neighborhood! Come check out their 57 self-pour taps where you can enjoy craft beverages, including beer, wine, ciders, sake, house-made cocktails, and non-alcoholic options. With 5 different food vendors, you’ll be able to pick from varying cuisines.
Breweries should always be thinking about growth, even if they’re not immediately looking to expand. We see a lot of small businesses in general get caught up on, where can we save money? How can we pinch this penny? When what they really need to be thinking about is instead of saving, how can we make more income? Because we can't save anything if we're not making anything.
A lot of brewers start out as an avocation. Say, an entrepreneur has a successful exit and takes some of those earnings and starts their passion project of starting a brewery. That’s actually the way that GoTab got started. Our CEO, Tim McLaughlin, started his brewery after many years as a successful e-commerce entrepreneur.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of a great brewery or tap room is that they always have a great brand. Breweries are actually some of the most creative branding people in the hospitality market at a micro level. The best breweries pay a lot of attention to what their brand stands for and make that come to life in their products, packaging, promotions and, above all, in their tap room.
One of the most common areas that tap room managers recognize is that their experience is lacking because all they have the bandwidth to do is keep the place clean and put out good beer. When they really think about it, what they’re missing is the hospitality aspect of their tap room operations.
Published by Garrick H. Brown of Brown Consulting, with writing and editing contributions from Ryan Berlinksy and Stefanie Ariganello of Cushman & Wakefield’s Colicchio Consulting team, the new report, The State of Food Halls 2023, examines the exceptional growth rate of this hospitality category – 55% since 2019 – and examines why it is on the rise.
We talk to brewery owners and tap room managers all the time about changing their POS. They come to us for a lot of reasons. Maybe their current POS is out of date and staff are complaining. Or maybe it’s just become too expensive and they want to see what the possibilities are. Honestly, we don’t really like talking about upgrading/changing POS.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the leisure and hospitality sector is hiring at a significantly higher rate than other business sectors. It’s positive news for the sector, but also presents a challenge for restaurants and hotels: how to find hospitality staff and then, how to quickly get them onboarded and serving guests.
Our CEO and Co-Founder recently talked with the Behind Company Lines Podcast where he talked about our design philosophy around restaurant and kitchen operations; i.e., as one part factory and another part artist’s studio. Because personal service is wonderful when it’s available, but disappointing when it’s not. Most of us go out with hopes that we’ll be taken care of, but it’s important that operators give guests the ability to take care of themselves if no server is available.
We often talk with managers about how improving the efficiency of their operations; i.e., receiving orders and fulfilling them in the least costly way can be a damper on the high inflation we’re all experiencing. But sometimes those messages get lost in the sauce. It’s much simpler to focus on more direct and obvious ways of reducing restaurant inflation impacts, like menu engineering, and price increases.
GoTab’s Manager App, which launched earlier this month in the App Store and on Google Play, is receiving kudos in the news. Feedback has been very positive, with coverage in the popular Food on Demand website. Food on Demand's coverage highlights features that allow hospitality managers to run many operational tasks from virtually anywhere using a mobile device.
GoTab’s Manager App empowers operators to run their business better, whether they are on- or off-premise. Its mobile dashboard provides transparency into valuable reporting and analytics and gives operators total control over menu, kitchen and inventory management as well as real-time loyalty and discounts for improved guest service.
Stone Brewing plans to improve its email marketing strategies with the GoTab and Klaviyo integration by giving guests personalized communication.
A full breakdown of the top advantages of using QR codes for ordering this year. Including in-depth interviews with Greg Frazier of Stone Brewing and GoTab CEO and Co-Founder, Tim McLaughlin.
The taproom! The epicenter of your brand. We’re excited to share this conversation with some of the top craft brewery operators in the country on how you can make the most of your guests’ time at your brewery.
Most Tap Room managers believe guests come for the beer, but also for personal connection. That’s true for Canyon Club too. But they’ve spent a lot of time figuring out how to strike the best balance between front-of-house tech and personal service and that’s what we covered in last month’s webinar.
