How Apicbase Helps Restaurant Operators Create Accurate Bills of Materials With a Push of a Button
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, accurate restaurant bills of materials (BoM) are the backbone of every large and profitable F&B business. If you’re involved in restaurant back-of-house — in any capacity — you constantly use BoMs for everything from ensuring production and pricing accuracy to informing decisions around inventory and procurement. F&B BoMs are an […]
Restaurant ERP Systems for Multi-unit and Enterprise Operations
Running a multi-location foodservice enterprise can feel like spinning plates while juggling lit torches. Just when the chefs are comfortable with the ordering system at one location, there’s a problem with the menu cycle at another. Each new location and sales channel adds another level of complexity to an already rich operation. Like someone throwing yet […]
Digital Transformation in the Hospitality Industry: Use these Change Management Solutions to Create a Digital Corporate Culture Geared Towards Growth
Contrary to what you’ve been led to believe, upending your processes and investing in AI-driven FoH and BoH tech ARE NOT the home stretch of your digital transformation journey. For a lot of F&B operators, these upgrades are the enablers of digital transformation. What’s missing is your driver — a digital company culture. This cultural […]
6 Stages of Digital Transformation in F&B— the Roadmap to Digital Maturity (and Not Being Stuck in Stage 2 like Everyone Else)
Soon every hospitality business will be 100% data-driven. What stage of the digital transformation is your company in, and what do you need to do to unlock the benefits of the next stage? Let’s find out. From online orders to loyalty programs and purchasing software—restaurants are rapidly implementing new tech to improve the guest experience […]
A Simple 3-Step Blueprint That Will Help You Activate Digital Transformation in Your F&B Operations
The #1 reason why businesses decide to pursue digital transformation (DT) is how much of an impact it has on the operational excellence of (hotel)restaurants, catering businesses and food and beverage management. Steered correctly, successfully digitising your food operation results in: Let’s recap the above article real quick: If you are the head of F&B […]
Multi-Site F&B Management: How To Keep The Back Of House On Track (And Secure Dish Margins)?
Managing food and beverage operations in a multi-site business is a monumental task. Keeping all the plates spinning while dealing with spreadsheet woes, multiple production plans, food cost worries and complex admin is a challenge to even the most seasoned managers in hospitality. Ask any caterer, restaurant owner or ghost kitchen operator, and they will […]
Point Solution vs Platform: What Is The Best F&B Tech Strategy For Your Multi-Site Restaurant?
New technologies, including AI, are revolutionizing the way food companies are run. The tech choices you make today affect your business goals in the long-term. If you are in charge of tech implementation at a multi-unit F&B business, you’ve probably read 100 articles, sales sheets, and white papers telling you that this or that solution […]
How Hotels are Benefiting from a Single Source of Truth for F&B Management
The digitalisation of food and beverage management in hotels has increased menu margins, product quality and employee happiness. Specifically, the introduction of a single source of truth has helped hotel chains to streamline the clunky processes and communications that deal with food cost, inventory management and purchasing. The restaurant inventory statistics below highlight that progress […]
5 Essential Restaurant Technologies to Future-Proof Your Business
Never before has technology played such an important role in the running of a restaurant business. Whether you operate a single site or several locations, from EPoS to kitchen management platforms, there is restaurant tech out there to enhance every aspect of your hospitality business. In this article, we zero in on five essential restaurant […]