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December 11, 2025

The Operator-Turned-Founder Story Proving the Power of Modern Hospitality Tech

Pickleball clubs now function as full-blown social destinations, breweries serve as community living rooms, and guests demand frictionless experiences wherever they go. Hospitality looks nothing like it did ten years ago. The most successful founders aren’t just operators or tech builders. They’re both. And that’s how they’re winning. One of the best examples is Ashley Owens, co-founder of CourtReserve, a platform now powering thousands of court facilities around the world. What began as a frustration with paper court sheets and phone-based reservations has transformed into one of the most compelling growth stories in modern hospitality tech, culminating in a $54 million investment to accelerate their mission.

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Pickleball and Padel Clubs

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December 10, 2025

Rebuilding a Legacy: Green Gables Bar & Grill Uses GoTab

For nearly a century, Green Gables Bar & Grill has been a fixture at Lake Bloomington, Illinois. The restaurant opened in 1929 during the Great Depression as a humble gas station and grocery stop for lake residents. It later became known for its iconic smash burgers, tasty beer, and unshakable sense of community. When Amy Tague’s grandfather bought the business in 1952, he brought with him a spirit of innovation and service. “My grandpa saw something special here,” said Tague, who is a third-generation owner. “He added a grill, started cooking burgers, and it became a place where people gathered, laughed, and made memories.”

What Every Craft Brewery Can Learn from Andrew Coplon

If you spend any time in the craft beer world, you’ve felt the impact of Andrew Coplon—founder of Secret Hopper and Craft Beer Professionals, two of the most influential forces pushing breweries to sharpen their taproom experience. In the latest episode of Behind the Tab, Andrew sat down with us to share his journey, the data behind guest engagement, and the small habits that separate thriving taprooms from struggling ones.

Behind the Tab: From Michelin-Star Kitchens to Fueling GoTab’s Growth in Colorado

In every episode of Behind the Tab, we spotlight the operators, partners, and team members who bring GoTab’s mission to life. This week, we’re excited to feature someone whose journey embodies what it means to be industry adjacent—still deeply connected to hospitality, but channeling that passion into helping operators thrive in new ways. Luke Coan, GoTab’s Regional Director of Growth based in Boulder, Colorado, is the definition of a modern hospitality professional: equal parts culinary craftsman, operational problem-solver, and creative technologist. His path to GoTab is anything but linear—and that’s exactly why it’s so compelling.

How to Scale Events That Pour Profits: Key Insights from Other Half Brewing & Tripleseat

The brewery industry has always been rooted in community, connection, and celebration—which makes events one of the most natural (and profitable) extensions of a taproom business. But running an events program that actually scales is a very different challenge. During our recent webinar with Joy Reichenbach from Other Half Brewing and Tripleseat, we dug into exactly how successful multi-location breweries are building, pricing, and operationalizing their events programs and the technology that makes it all possible.

How to Build a Profitable Brewery Event Program: A Practical, Modern Guide

Running a brewery today means more than pouring great beer. The most successful taprooms have evolved into hybrid spaces—community hubs, gathering places, and private-event destinations. Events now represent one of the industry’s strongest revenue streams, but scaling an events program requires more than saying yes to birthday parties and corporate happy hours. It requires structure. It requires operational flow. And it requires technology that doesn’t make your staff’s lives harder.

The Power of Shared Tabs for Multi-Unit Venues: Why It Matters for Food Halls and Pickleball Destinations

In high-volume, multi-unit environments like food halls, brewery-anchored marketplaces, and fast-growing pickleball entertainment venues the way guests order, pay, and move throughout the space directly shapes their experience. The challenge is simple to explain but hard to solve: guests want frictionless ordering everywhere in the venue, while operators and vendors need precise revenue allocation, clean reporting, and fair distribution of tips and taxes.

Key Benefits of Kitchen Display Systems (KDS)

As back-of-house operations become more complex—and guest expectations continue rising—Kitchen Display Systems (KDS) have evolved from “nice-to-have tech” into an essential engine for running smooth, efficient, and guest-friendly hospitality operations. Whether you’re a brewery expanding into food, a taproom juggling off-peak and peak periods, or a multi-station kitchen managing cross-team coordination, a modern KDS helps eliminate friction while unlocking measurable gains across service, throughput, and guest satisfaction.

How a Modern Kitchen Display System (KDS) Works: The End-to-End Workflow Explained

In fast-paced hospitality environments—taprooms, breweries, family entertainment centers, food halls, and quick-service restaurants—a Kitchen Display System (KDS) is now the operational backbone that keeps orders flowing, food consistent, and teams in sync. A KDS replaces the chaos of printed tickets, verbal and manual communication, and guesswork with a centralized, dynamic, and intelligent production queue. In this article, we break down how a modern KDS works end-to-end, using real examples from operators evaluating GoTab’s flexible KDS and back-of-house tooling.

How Restaurant POS Systems Work in 2025 (Cloud, Hardware, Integrations)

Restaurant technology has advanced rapidly over the past decade, but 2025 marks a definitive shift in how operators think about the systems that power their business. Today’s restaurant POS is no longer a static terminal or a single-purpose cash register—it’s a dynamic, cloud-connected, mobile-first platform that underpins the entire guest experience. From busy mountain-town taverns to sprawling entertainment destinations, modern operators expect speed, reliability, flexibility, and deep integration across every part of their tech stack.

Unlock Smarter Discounts & Custom Rules with GoTab’s New Option Group Tagging

We’re excited to introduce Option Group Tagging, a powerful enhancement that gives you precise control over how cart rules apply at the item-level and the modifier-level. Whether you're running taproom specials, offering size-based pricing incentives, or building more nuanced menu logic, this update helps you deliver the exact experience you intend—automatically.

Scheduling Gift Cards Made Easy with GoTab

GoTab’s new scheduled gift card functionality makes gifting frictionless and fully automated—no more setting reminders, no more last-minute scrambling. Guests simply choose an amount, enter recipient information, select a future date, and GoTab takes care of the rest.

How Opsi + GoTab Streamline Invoice Management, Costing, and Inventory for Modern Kitchens

Managing invoices, tracking ingredient costs, and keeping recipes accurate can strain even the most well-run kitchen. That’s why the integration between Opsi and GoTab is designed to simplify everything surrounding purchasing, inventory, and recipe costing—all while keeping data clean, connected, and continuously up to date. Together, the two systems automate the most tedious back-office workflows so operators can focus on higher-value activity: writing recipes, counting inventory, and running great service. Here’s how the process works from start to finish.

How to Choose a Mobile Point-of-Sale System for Hospitality Venues

Hospitality operators are adopting mobile point-of-sale technologies faster than ever. Whether you run a hotel restaurant, café, taproom, or multi-vendor marketplace, the right mobile POS can streamline service, speed up transactions, and deliver the flexible guest experience today’s travelers expect. But the market is crowded, and not all handheld systems deliver the same level of reliability, mobility, and operational control.

The Modern POS System for Hotel Restaurants: How Contactless Payment Processing Elevates Guest Experience

Hotel restaurants today operate in a uniquely complex environment. Guests may order from their room, the bar, the pool deck, the lobby lounge, or during an event—sometimes all in the same visit. Staff must navigate multiple service models while maintaining a seamless experience that aligns with the hotel’s brand standards.

How to Choose Kitchen Display Systems with Inventory Management Integration

For today’s hospitality operators, especially breweries, food halls, taprooms, and quick-service kitchens, the combination of a KDS and integrated inventory management has become a foundational part of running an efficient, profitable operation. A kitchen display system is no longer just a digital replacement for paper tickets; it's a real-time command center that ties together prep timing, recipe accuracy, and communication between front- and back-of-house teams. When it’s seamlessly connected to an inventory platform, operators gain the added advantage of automated costing, live product availability, and precise recipe-level depletion.

Preserving Hospitality in a Tech-Fatigued World

At this year’s FSTEC conference, one message rang louder than any product announcement: technology should never get in the way of hospitality. Speakers challenged the industry to preserve humanity amid the rise of AI, reduce tech friction, and rethink where automation truly belongs. It was validating to hear this pushback—because that’s exactly what we’ve believed from the start.

GoTab Launches Payments SDK Powered by Bespoke API to Elevate Reservation-Based and Entertainment Commerce Workflows

The GoTab Payments SDK leverages the Bespoke GoTab API Platform to deliver deeper control over reservations, deposits, and pre-authorized payment methods without sacrificing security, flexibility, or the guest experience. With the GoTab Payments SDK, operators can streamline the entire guest journey, from booking to onsite purchase.

How Chipshot Pickleball Built a Smarter Eatertainment Model with GoTab’s POS

Across the country, pickleball clubs are becoming more than places to play—they’re becoming multi-experience destinations. Guests expect great food, cold drinks, seamless ordering, and zero friction between matches. That expectation has given rise to a new wave of pickleball club POS systems designed to power high-volume, high-fun venues that blend hospitality, recreation, and community.

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Pickleball and Padel Clubs

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November 7, 2025

GoTab’s Next-Generation Handhelds, Powered by Adyen’s New S1E4 Pro and S1F4 Pro Terminals, Set a New Standard for Hospitality Hardware

GoTab operators are about to get a major hardware upgrade. Adyen, the global financial technology platform powering GoTab’s in-person payments, has announced the release of two new payment terminals—the S1E4 Pro and S1F4 Pro—built to perform in the most demanding hospitality environments. These new devices combine the power of Android 13, robust build quality, and seamless integration with GoTab’s flexible entertainment commerce platform, giving operators the reliability, mobility, and speed they need to serve guests anywhere—from the bar to the beer garden to the bowling lanes.

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