Restaurant POS Will Always Need Integration

Something funny happened in this year’s Hospitality Technology’s Restaurant Technology Study. We were left out. I don’t mean just “we,” Maitre'D. I mean “we” restaurant POS vendors. They didn’t include us in the study. Their reason: we’re still as a...

Maitre'D Announces New Release for DataBoard Mobile app

Our DataBoard mobile app has been a go-to management tool for our customers for more than a year. It presents current labor costs, current voids, current sales and a good deal more. (Maitre'D users that haven’t yet given it a spin can click here for...

Gamification Improves Restaurant Sales at CARA

I was talking the other day with Andrew Moore, Digital Marketing Manager for Prime Brands at CARA. CARA is one of Canada’s leading restaurant franchise operations, with over 800 restaurants for ten brands across the country. The company is 125 years...

Why some restaurant POS systems cost more than others

Restaurant POS Systems' Value Proposition

I wrote about ROI in an earlier post, and I want to return to it once more. My theme was that ROI comes in two flavors: money saved or money earned. The more money a system saves you or makes you, the more...

A Look at Restaurant POS Costs: In Either Language, ROI Is King

There are two “languages” of ROI: especially when it comes to restaurant POS. The first is the language of Cost Reduction: how much time, resources and cost of goods can be lowered. Second is the language of Revenue: how much new, incremental...

Full POS Software that Small Restaurants Can Afford

Sometimes it feels that a small restaurant has its financial back against the wall when it comes to your POS software investment. Harnessing the power and functionality of mature and full-featured systems is an elusive goal to companies with limited...

The Ripple Value of Maitre'D Bar POS

What is so interesting to me is how broadly Maitre'D POS software features impact a restaurant’s operation. That’s primarily because of the way we’ve integrated all of our functionalities with each other, with third-party equipment, and with...

Spoonity's Loyalty Program Delivers Results for Bridgehead

Loyalty and a Cup of Joe: a Winning Combination

One problem that restaurateurs of all types face is how best to manage their loyalty program and gift card programs. A lot of them are running programs that are handled offline entirely, or that aren’t...

JayC's uses Akela Loyalty Program to Keep Customers Coming Back

Jimmy Baloukas of JayC's RestoBar in Montreal talks about Akela's Maitre'D loyalty program integration

A Big Threat Gets an Easy Fix with EMV

The recent US announcement of the BuySecure initiative has brought the critical issue of EMV usage in the States to the fore again. For merchants, there’s a fair amount of anxiety and uncertainty about the EMV in the US—especially about the October...