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Drive Restaurant Sales Through Employee Contests
Want to create an incentive for your staff to upsell certain items? Want an easy way to track those sales? Whether you're looking to sell more of your signature cocktails, seasonal entrees, fresh catch of the day, delicious dishes that don't get a lot of attention, or...
The Digital Restaurant: How Tableside Ordering Drives Profitability
“‘Serving’ is not ‘running food’. Serving is being present to lead an experience.” With increasing minimum wages and the competitive landscape, how can you squeeze more out of the customer experience without customers feeling squeezed? In this paper, we describe how...
Canada’s Top Restaurants Use Squirrel POS Systems
Squirrel Systems provides point of sales solutions for bundles of amazing restaurants across North America, four of which recently cracked the list of Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants for 2018. The prestigious list, brought to you by Canadas100best.com, showcases the...
The better side of the EMV leap
“As the world’s last major market to still use old-fashioned swipe-and-sign magnetic strip cards, American consumers and merchants are paying a serious price…” —U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing: “Privacy in the Digital Age: Preventing Data Breaches and...
Centralize restaurant employee communications using Squirrel POS
We’ve all been there – you need to communicate something to your restaurant team and struggle to find the best channel to do so. E-mail blast? Social media group? Scheduling software? Memo printed on the staff room wall? What about when a message is more...
The benefits of integrating a Kitchen Display System with your POS
If you haven’t integrated your POS with QSR Automation's ConnectSmart Kitchen Systems, what are you waiting for? A day in a kitchen without QSR Automation's ConnectSmart Kitchen platform It’s 6:30 pm on Friday evening and your restaurant, like a pot of pasta you leave...
The Warehouse Group – finding a reliable assistant and advisor in a POS
"As a multi unit restaurant thats's all across Canada, it's really important to us that everything stays the same from city to city and store to store. Squirrel is the perfect system for that. Squirrel is more than just a cash register for us. It really is a...
Copper Cellar – relying on EMV enabled Squirrel POS
"You don't want to be the next restaurant chain in the news, that has had a data breach. Once the breach happens, it's too late. I think Squirrel did a better job of having someone on site, working with me, getting me comfortable with the system and how it operated....
MURTEC 2019
Tech-savvy, growth-oriented restaurant companies gather at MURTEC. We see CEOs, Presidents, and Owners with their executive teams across technology, finance, operations and marketing. This is where restaurant groups, franchises and independent operators come to...
Trends in Hospitality Technology
With HITEC kicking off yesterday (find us at booth 1525!), we've been busy keeping up with all the hospitality tech out there. If there's one thing we've noticed it's this: there's an overwhelming amount of information, changes and updates. Don't worry! We've...
Tips For Keeping Your Restaurant Data Secure
With the recent news of a widely known and visited fast-food chain being a victim of a data security breach that impacted 5 million people, owners and operators in the hospitality industry are scrambling. All of a sudden, the implications of transactional and other...
Tribeca Grill – a partnerhsip success 23 years in the making
"It's been 23 years so far with Squirrel. They think like we think, from an efficiency standpoint. The simplicity for the staff, and the speed. And they listen to us. It's always been a positive and supportive relationship” —Drew Nieporent, founder, Tribeca Grill &...