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How do you know if an employee is stealing?

Whether you have been a restaurant operator for a week or a decade, you strive to successfully operate your restaurant every day. What you may not realize are the bottom line profits that you could be losing and, more importantly, how you are losing them. Jimmy Fortuna, VP of Product Development, talks about how Aloha Restaurant Guard can help you identify theft in your restaurant.

Top email marketing mistakes:
Not sure what’s keeping your emails from achieving the click-through rates and open-rates you want? This infographic highlights the top email marketing mistakes that might be keeping you from getting the results you want out of your email marketing campaign.

Don’t miss it – gift card season is now!

Black Friday will be here before we know it, and customers will expect your restaurant to be ready with gift card options for their holiday needs. So….Here are 3 tips for increasing your gift card sales:

Make sure all of your employees are trained to sell and process gift cards.
Place actual gift cards or pictures of gift cards around your store or at each table in your restaurant.
Offer free packaging. 84% of consumers are more likely to buy a gift card if it comes already wrapped or with free packaging.

If you already have your gift card solution installed, keep this information in a safe place for any support you

may need this holiday season and beyond:Dial 800-792-5642 | Option 2 |Option 1You can also email support@alohaenterprise.com with support questions. If your gift card program is not already set up, please feel free to contact us for more information.

Top 10 benefits of mobile technology

It is clear that the use of mobile technology is not a passing fad, but is an important tool that can help business owners run their business more effectively. While mobile point of sale (POS) won’t replace the traditional POS in the near-term, it will provide options that simply weren’t feasible in the past. This post highlights the top 10 benefits of mobile point of sale technology.

4 benefits of cloud technology

1. Central site management and visibility. Operational data that comes from different sites and/or resources can be managed from a jingle source. For example, with a cloud-hosted solution you can “push” a menu change to the cloud and that menu change will then be made on all sites simultaneously.

2. Freedom to manage anytime, from anywhere. The ability to securely access your site management and store configurations remotely enhances your flexibility, so that you aren’t physically tied to your operations in order to manage them.

3. Greater capabilities with less expense. Most cloud-hosted solutions offer “plug and play” capabilities with minimal infrastructure or hardware expense, enabling you to extend your capabilities while minimizing your operational costs.

4. Peace-of-mind. The cloud enables you to automatically back up your important data off-site. In the rare chance that misfortune- such as a natural disaster – befall your restaurant, all of your data won’t be lost forever.

If your business operates in the cloud or if you’re considering putting data in a cloud, you need to see this infographic about the 6 best practices you should be following.

Contact us for information about how our cloud technologies can help you run your business more effectively

Welcome to our newest BEC Team Members!

Anthony Addotta and James Battraw have joined us in the Customer Service Department! Congratulations and welcome to the team, Anthony and James!