- Blog
What POS hardware accessories do I need for my business?
Learn more about the accessories that modern point of sale systems require, taking your business operations to the next level.
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Buying a POS Register for your Hospitality Business
Read the Square guide on how to pick the best POS register for your hospitality business as we answer the most popular queries.
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How to Streamline Bar Operations to Cope with Staff Shortages
Working smarter not harder is key to thriving in a labour market shortage. We reveal five ways you can streamline your bar operations without compromising on service.
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What is a Corkage Fee?
What a corkage fee is and why it’s charged. What to think about before you decide whether to charge a corkage fee. How much to charge as a corkage fee.
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Baking Business Ideas: 12 Delicious Bakery Ideas to Make You Money
Baking business ideas: 12 delicious bakery ideas to make money from baking and home baking. Turn your baking skills into a side hustle or a full-time business.
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7 Tips To Optimise Your Restaurant Menu With Square
Your menu can be a useful tool in driving revenue and bringing new customers to your restaurant. Here are some tips on optimising your menu with Square.
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Guide to Outdoor Dining for Restaurants
Lockdown restrictions are lifting, and outdoor dining will be popular. Follow these tips to find out how to equip your restaurant for al fresco eating.
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Commercial Kitchen Equipment List for Quick-Service Restaurants
Building out your restaurant space is a crucial part of your business plan. Find out how best to stock it and what you need to consider with our checklist.
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The Essential Bar Equipment Checklist
Setting up and running a bar can be a challenge but planning is the first key step. Find the essentials you need with our bar equipment guide.
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The Essential Restaurant Equipment Checklist
Thinking of opening a new restaurant? Check out this essential restaurant equipment buying guide for everything you will need to open a commercial kitchen.
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What is a Barback? Their Role Explained
The role of a barback is sometimes overlooked in a hospitality business. This guide explains what a barback does and why they’re important for your bar.
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7 Alternative Revenue Streams for Restaurants
Explore how you can diversify your restaurant services and introduce alternative income sources with new revenue streams. Find out more with Square.
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What to Consider When Mapping the Floor Plan of Your Restaurant
Discover how mapping out a floor plan of your restaurant can have a positive impact on your staff and customers.
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Stock and seasonality: How to adapt and update your menu
Discover how to adapt your menu to Brexit food shortages, and what you can do to build your small business and embrace seasonality.
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What Influences the Cost of Opening a Bar or Pub?
If you’re looking to open a bar, you need to know the start-up costs so you can plan accordingly and make the right investments. Find out more with Square.
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How to Write a Great Business Plan for a Bar or Pub
When you open a bar, you need objectives and strategies to stay on track. Here’s how to write a bar business plan that will roadmap your success.
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How to Keep Restaurant Startup Costs Down
Restaurant startup costs can quickly mount and cause strain on your finances. Learn how to avoid the common pitfalls with Square’s helpful guide.
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What are UK Health and Safety Measures and Why Are They in Place
Restaurant health and safety is essential for all businesses that handle food and drink. Find out what you need to know about food hygiene regulations here on Square.
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What You Need to Know About Pop-Up Restaurants
If you’re thinking about starting a pop-up restaurant, read this.
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How to Recruit Restaurant Staff: Hiring Tips for Hospitality
As the hospitality industry opens back up, discover our top hiring tips for hospitality recruitment as demand increases.
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Here Are the Costs of Starting a Food Truck (and How to Save Money)
There’s more to starting a food truck than renting a funky van with a cooker. Let us explain all…
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How to Make your Takeaway and Delivery More Sustainable
Learn how to reduce the environmental impact of food takeaway services to deliver a more sustainable business model and improve the customer experience
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How to Extend Your Brand Through Local Pickup and Delivery
Thinking of expanding into online services? Use this guide to discover the benefits of offering customers a seamless digital shopping experience.
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How to Manage Increased Demand for Bookings
Reopening after lockdown? Learn how to manage bookings and deal with increased demand as customers begin to return to the hospitality sector.
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How to Attract Customers during Off-Peak Hours
Looking to expand your customer base and draw more people in at off-peak times? This handy guide offers ideas and suggestions for building business at quiet times.
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How to Create a Restaurant Delivery Experience That Satisfies Customers From End-to-End
Here’s how to ensure customers have a great delivery experience from end to end, and add your business to their list of favourite places to order from.
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Indoor Dining: How to Make Restaurant Goers Comfortable Again
Five top tips to help diners feel comfortable to eat indoors at your restaurant as pandemic restrictions ease - you’ll be fully booked again in no time
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Loyalty programmes: Why They Matter and How to Start One
Find out why you should consider creating a loyalty programme to attract customers to your restaurant business and how to get started.
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4 Ways To Prepare for Predicted Spring and Summer Traffic Increases
Here’s how to prepare your fast-casual restaurant for success when the industry booms in the spring and summer.
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The Benefits of Team Management Software
Learn about how team management software can benefit your business - from onboarding, to rostering and tracking individual and team productivity.
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How To Manage Restaurant Inventory Across Multiple Channels
Self-serve ordering provides a contactless experience for your dine-in customers. Diners can scan a QR code to order and pay from their mobile devices.
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QR Code Menus: Why Restaurants Should Make The Switch
While QR Code Menus may at first seem like a temporary solution, the tech innovation has staying power as more businesses shift to digital menus and experience the long-term benefits.
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How To Start An Online Food Business
This guide contains everything you need to consider to get started with an online store or to offer delivery or pick up.
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10 Ways to Increase Food Orders Through Your Online Channels
With the food service industry facing increasing pressure to adapt and offer more online channels, here’s how you can increase your online orders.
- Guides
How to Open a Bar in 2024
Whether you are a master mixologist or an enthusiastic entrepreneur, you may have questions about how to open a bar. This guide explains the essentials.
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What is Ghost Kitchen and Should You Open One?
Here’s a look at what ghost kitchens are and how they may (or may not) fit within your restaurant business.
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