- Square Sellers
How The Grove Hotel became a multihyphenate business with help from Square
- Conversations
CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE X SQUARE MENTORSHIP SERIES: DEMONSTRATE LEADERSHIP
- Conversations
CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE X SQUARE MENTORSHIP SERIES: FUTURE PROOF YOUR OPERATIONS
- Guides
How to Start a Restaurant
Want to open your own restaurant? Discover everything you need to know with Square—from developing a solid business plan to evaluating your costs and more.
- Articles
The Top Restaurant Trends in 2024
For a more in-depth look at these 2024 industry trends, download the full 2024 Future of Restaurants report.
- Square Sellers
How Vancouver’s Forecast Coffee cuts costs and optimizes staff time with Square
Here, we speak to Salusbury about catching the entrepreneurial bug, growing his business during the COVID-19 pandemic, the customer experience at Forecast and how Square’s products help him and his staff run a successful coffee shop.
- Square Sellers
How a B.C. founder shifted from tech to tahini and launched the successful QSR chain Superbaba with Square
Here, we speak to El Chami about his personal and professional background, considering customer needs when making business decisions, the staff experience at his restaurants and the Square products that help him run and grow Superbaba.
- Conversations
CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE X SQUARE: MENTORSHIP SERIES | HOW TO BUILD REST INTO YOUR HUSTLE
The second year of Chef Darren MacLean’s Cultural Chef Exchange is underway in Calgary, AB, where MacLean recently met with visiting chef Andrew Wong to fish, forage, and discuss how to build rest into the daly grind of a restaurateurs’ life.
- Conversations
CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE X SQUARE: MENTORSHIP SERIES | YOUR BRAND AS A REFLECTION OF YOU
Chef Darren MacLean recently met with visiting chef Andrew Clarke to fish, forage, and discuss how to create a restaurant brand that reflects your personality and values.
- Articles
Multihyphenate Businesses: What They Are and How to Start One
Being a multihyphenate business is a great way to keep up with changing industries and markets. But, what does that mean and how do you succeed?
- Articles
Is Dynamic Pricing Right for Your Restaurant?
With the flexibility of adjusting pricing to accommodate market conditions and customer needs, now may be the perfect time to explore dynamic pricing as a strategy for your restaurant.
- Articles
10 Tips on How to Host a Wedding at Your Bar or Restaurant
Square offers a full suite of tools to help you manage the logistics, planning, and operational tasks needed to transform your bar or restaurant into a part-time wedding venue.
- Perspectives
Square Seller Chef Darren MacLean: Sustainability isn’t just the right thing to do: It’s good business sense
Square Seller Chef Darren MacLean: When opportunities emerge to amplify the message of sustainability beyond our borders, we have a responsibility to take it and not waste it – much like our planet’s incredible resources.
- Conversations
How Halifax’s Dilly Dally Coffee Cafe thrives on creating a culture of kindness
Here, we speak with co-owner Laura Draeger about the small business community in Halifax, Dilly Dally’s culture of kindness, keeping calm amidst economic uncertainty, using Square to streamline operations at the cafe and the true meaning of hospitality.
- Articles
The Top Restaurant Trends in 2023
Square teamed up with Wakefield Research to investigate what 500 restaurant owners and managers in Canada and 2,000 consumers across North America are thinking about the current state and future for food businesses.
- Articles
How to Prepare Your Bar or Restaurant for Major Sports Events
Major sports events can mean big business for bars and restaurants in Canada. Here’s what you should take into account before hosting the next big game.
- Articles
The Benefits of Tableside Payments
Tableside payments are likely here to stay. As a business owner, make the experience as hassle-free as possible for your customers and employees. Choosing a handheld device that supports your business needs is the first step.
- Articles
How Tableside Payments Are Changing the Restaurant Industry
Bryan Solar, GM of Square for Restaurants, shares how Square’s mobile POS is changing tableside payments for restaurants.
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Three Canadian Coffee Entrepreneurs on What Helps their Businesses Thrive
Here, three Canadian Square sellers and coffee entrepreneurs share what helps their businesses thrive.
- Articles
Important Cash Register Features for Small Businesses
Before you head on over to buy the latest cash register, you should become well-acquainted with the features that will support your business.
- Articles
Must-Have Hardware Accessories for your POS System
Learn more about the accessories that modern point of sale systems require - more than just a cash register.
- Articles
Ways to Streamline Bar Operations to Offset Labour Shortages
Labour pressures and supply chain challenges have been forcing bars to rethink their traditional operating models. Here are ways you can streamline to offset those challenges.
- Articles
How To Make Your Outdoor Dining Space More Profitable
For restaurant owners who juggle indoor and outdoor dining, or who explored patio seating for the first time recently, here are some ideas to make your outdoor dining space more profitable.
- Articles
Commercial Kitchen Equipment List for Quick-Service Restaurants
Here’s everything you’ll need for setting up your QSR commercial kitchen and fast food restaurant.
- Articles
The Essential Bar Equipment Checklist
Here’s everything you’ll need for setting up your bar. We’ve got you covered with the essential bar equipment and supplies checklist.
- Articles
The Essential Restaurant Equipment Checklist
Thinking of opening a new restaurant? Check out this essential restaurant equipment buying guide for a full-service restaurant.
- Articles
How Restaurants are Automating Back-of-House Operations
Robot chefs and mechanical cooks are just scratching the surface of the potential for back-of-house efficiency. Here’s a closer look at back-of-house restaurant automation trends.
- Articles
How CHAR Restaurant Group is helping to establish Calgary, Alberta as a thriving culinary destination
Here, we speak to Connie and John about what inspired their interest in cooking, Calgary’s food scene, their background in butchery, how Square has helped them grow their businesses, and the future of CHAR.
- Articles
How Tite Frette focuses on customer experience to shine a spotlight on Quebec’s unique microbrews
Here, we speak to Tite Frette’s president and co-founder about the “Tite Frette Experience,” the uniqueness of made-in-Quebec alcoholic beverages, and the decision to become a franchise.
- Articles
Square launches On-Demand Delivery in Canada
Square has partnered exclusively with DoorDash to offer you food and beverage delivery services — including alcohol in eligible provinces — at launch.
- Square Sellers
How Kensington Brewing Co. leaned into aesthetics and customer experience to navigate the challenges of COVID-19
Here we speak to Michael Gurr, President of Kensington Brewing Co., about pivoting during the pandemic, the evolution of craft beer, and being a part of the Kensington Market community.
- Articles
How to Write a Killer Bar Business Plan
When you open a bar, it’s crucial to set objectives and strategies to achieve them. Here’s how to write a bar business plan that will roadmap your success.
- Articles
How QR Code Ordering Is Improving Guest Experience and Your Bottom Line
As restaurants have adapted and adopted new technology in recent years, tactics that were once used as a means to accommodate safety and customer needs during the pandemic are proving to have real staying power.
- Square Sellers
How Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation came to choose Square Register for their new POS system as they go cashless at McMahon Stadium and Scotiabank Saddledome
We speak with Ziad Mehio and Rachelle Roulston about hitting pause during the pandemic, the unique challenges of rapidly implementing new technology on a large scale, and predictions about contactless payments.
- Articles
What You Need to Know About Pop-Up Restaurants
If you’re thinking about starting a pop-up restaurant, read this.
- Articles
Here Are Need-To-Know Food Truck Costs (and How to Save Money)
How much does a food truck cost? The answer is that it depends, but let’s take a look at some food truck cost factors that determine start-up and operating expenses.
- Guides
The Future of Restaurants in Canada 2021
In this guide we draw on expert analysis and insight into how restaurants are pivoting to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the food service industry’s future.
- Articles
From the taproom to table-tops, Junction Craft Brewery taps into Square
Learn how Junction Craft Brewery implemented an online store, payments, inventory and scheduling overnight.
- Articles
How to Optimize Your Menu for Takeout and Delivery
As social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic encourages more people to stay at home, adapting your food and drinks offerings to accommodate pickup and delivery can attract more customers and help open up a new revenue stream.
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