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See how top restaurant groups cut waste and improve consistency with better recipe management, prep planning, inventory control, and kitchen software.
By implementing a more streamlined operational approach using opsi, Spoon and Stable achieved a 40% reduction in prep time and cut new hire onboarding time by 20%, giving the culinary team more time to focus on food quality, consistency, and guest experience.
Looking for the best POS for food halls? Compare GoTab, Toast, Square, and Clover on multi-vendor ordering, automated rent collection, percentage overage, CAM fees, and shared-staff tips.
Discover what defines a modern food hall, how food halls operate, how they generate revenue, the technology behind today's most successful venues, and why hybrid ordering is reshaping the guest experience.
Independent breweries are facing more pressure than ever to operate efficiently while continuing to deliver exceptional guest experiences. That's why GoTab is excited to announce a new partnership with the Independent Brewers Alliance (brewersalliance.org), giving member breweries exclusive access to preferred pricing on GoTab's brewery POS platform.
GoTab powers Crush Yard's Nashville expansion with a unified pickleball POS, mobile ordering, court reservations, and guest experience platform for eatertainment venues.
Learn how today's leading food halls use shared tabs, QR ordering, vendor management, RFID self-pour, and centralized reporting to create better guest experiences and simpler operations.
Learn how Honest Hospitality Team uses Opsi by GoTab to streamline restaurant inventory management, recipe costing, prep lists, and kitchen operations. Discover how centralized recipes, automated food costing, and mobile kitchen tools help culinary teams improve consistency, reduce waste, and scale high-volume food programs with confidence.
Food halls continue to evolve from simple collections of food vendors into destinations that combine dining, entertainment, community, and hospitality. But not every food hall operates the same way. Some function like traditional food courts, where each vendor operates independently and guests complete separate transactions at every stall. Others create a more connected experience that allows guests to move freely throughout the venue while maintaining a single tab and enjoying multiple ordering options.
What gives people a reason to gather in the first place? That question was at the center of a recent conversation on the Behind the Tab podcast with Michael Motz, founder of Full House Group, one of Central Europe's most experienced food hall operators. Motz oversees multiple food halls, bars, restaurants, live music venues, and hospitality concepts across Poland and the Czech Republic.
GoTab, the entertainment commerce platform built for breweries, taprooms, beer gardens, and other high-volume hospitality venues, today announced the release of its new industry report, The Playbook for High-Volume Taprooms & Beer Gardens: Brewery Guest Experience Strategies.
For entertainment venues, breweries, food halls, pickleball clubs, bowling centers, dine-in cinemas, and other experience-driven businesses, the questions become much more specific. The difference between a traditional restaurant POS and a platform built for dynamic hospitality often shows up in the edge cases. The questions below came directly from a recent evaluation with an experienced hospitality operations team. They reveal the kinds of challenges modern operators face every day—and the capabilities they should expect from their technology.
Today's guests expect convenience. They want to order from wherever they are, pay without waiting, and enjoy a seamless experience from start to finish. At the same time, operators need technology that can support multiple service models, improve staff productivity, and provide real-time visibility into business performance. That's why more operators are adopting tablet-based point of sale systems.
With this integration, operators can now unify gameplay, food and beverage, and retail purchases on a single guest tab. Guests receive an RFID card linked directly to their GoTab tab initiated at the Point-of-Sale, allowing them to tap and play games and attractions while all charges automatically post alongside food and beverage purchases for a single, seamless checkout experience.
With so many brewery technology solutions competing for attention, how can operators separate meaningful innovation from expensive distractions? In this article, Mike Wakerly, founder of Taplist.io, shares a practical framework for evaluating technology investments based on real operational impact. Learn how successful breweries cut through the noise, focus on solving actual business problems, and build a technology stack that improves the guest experience, streamlines operations, and drives measurable results.
We recently analyzed ordering and payment behavior across breweries, food halls, restaurants, and entertainment venues using anonymized data from real GoTab operators. While every venue is different, one trend appeared consistently across nearly every category:Operators that combine traditional service with guest-driven ordering are generating larger tabs and capturing more tips than operators relying on a single ordering method alone.
GoTab, the entertainment commerce platform built for dynamic restaurants, breweries, food halls, hotels, and entertainment venues, today announced the acquisition of the Fishbowl guest relationship management platform, one of the hospitality industry’s most established customer data, marketing, and loyalty platforms.
With 280 seats inside and 50-seats outside in Shrewsbury, Missouri -- an inner-ring suburb of downtown St. Louis -- founder Sunny Bhalla operates several service models at once. My Place includes a full-service dining room, a café, a 51-tap self-pour beer wall and an automated cocktail bar. The cocktail bar runs on Smart Bar USA, a system also used in casinos, resorts and cruise lines.
As movie theaters continue to compete with streaming services and changing consumer habits, many operators are rethinking what the cinema experience should look like. Today's most successful theaters are not simply showing movies. They are creating destinations that combine entertainment, food and beverage, hospitality, and community engagement.
For brewery owners and operators, that creates an opportunity. A well-designed donation program can strengthen community relationships, increase guest engagement, support local nonprofits, and reinforce your brand's mission—all while fitting naturally into everyday operations.
