“I wanted to express my gratitude and let you know how happy I am with the all-around experience at Table Needs. You have an amazing system and the team is super-friendly, accommodating and awesome at communicating. Plus, Nicholas did an amazing job on the set up and training! A shout out to you too for…
We at Table Needs take extreme pride in how we design digital menus to function for your patrons. The menu is at the heart of your restaurant concept, and we enhance what a PDF menu can provide. We want to provide the experience of having your own restaurant app without any of the technical legwork. What we’ve…
Bulky, ugly and oh-so-old-school, cash registers manage to be vestiges in our all-but-cashless society. It’s 2022, though, and the switch is not just wise — it’s almost essential. That’s even the case for your corner snow cone shack where kids pay in quarters. “There is nothing wrong with a good old cash register, but it…
It’s no secret that restaurants had to ramp up their online ordering capabilities during the pandemic. Most did — for good reason. According to Fundera by NerdWallet, more than 112 million Americans have used an online food delivery service. That’s substantial, and even more noteworthy when you consider it’s growing 300% faster than in-house dining…
Algorithms and Antipasti: Interpreting the Sales Data From Your Menu Let’s start with a short refresher on menu engineering. Menu engineering is data-driven menu design that analyzes the popularity and profitability of menu items. It couples this analysis with human behavior patterns to determine the best menu structure and organization for your restaurant’s menu. Table Needs…
The ability to surprise and delight customers is an important part of delivering memorable dining experiences. Heck, to running a successful business of any kind. This truly is more important than ever these days. So much has changed in the last two-plus years — the onset of a pandemic, the promise and roll-out of vaccines,…
Designing an Appetite With Menu Engineering and Restaurant Technology If the simple menu you have printed and stacked behind the host’s podium is more complicated for you behind the scenes than bound sheets of paper ever should be, you’re in good company. And if your seasonal additions, price fluctuations, and subpar descriptions could use a…
In order to successfully run a restaurant, you have to maintain focus. That’s where philosopher Isaiah Berlin’s hedgehog principle comes in. It’s based on an ancient Greek parable, “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing,” Berlin notes that foxes pursue many goals and interests at the same time, resulting in…