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eCommerce for Restaurants: Everything You Need to Know

eCommerce opens entirely new opportunities for restaurants. Learn more on how to optimise your restaurant business for the digital landscape.

The Top Restaurant Trends in 2021

Find out what the top restaurant trends for local businesses, restaurant owners and consumers are for 2021.

How to Prepare Your Outdoor Space for Winter

Does your business have some spare outdoor space? Here’s some creative and customer enticing ways to make the most of it during the winter months.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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

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.

How to Prepare Your Business for Large Sports Viewings & Gatherings

Showing live sports: the essential guide to maximising floor space in sports bars and other venues showing televised sports and live events.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

How Restaurants Can Prevent and Manage Chargebacks

See our quick guide on how restaurants can prevent and manage costly fraudulent and friendly chargebacks.

What You Need to Know About Pop-Up Restaurants

If you’re thinking about starting a pop-up restaurant, read this.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to Open a Bar

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.

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.

How to Take Control of Your Coffee Shop Marketing Plan

Because of competition in the industry, a coffee shop’s growth relies heavily on marketing efforts. Here’s how you can create a marketing plan for a coffee shop.

How Local UK Businesses are Boosting Online Sales

See how Square Online Store features and integrations helped Today Bread and 400° Pizzeria boost online sales and link their in-store experience to its online store

How to Start a Restaurant

What started as a love for food has grown into a dream of starting a restaurant. This guide explains everything you need to know as a new restaurant owner.

How Restaurants Are Adapting to the New Normal With Takeaway and Delivery

Restaurants are leveraging their supply chains by selling groceries to customers during the COVID-19 shutdown.

How to Manage Your Food and Beverage Business During COVID-19

We’ve compiled tips — whether you’re still serving or you’re closed and need to maintain cash flow — as well as industry resources to help you manage your business right now.

How to Expand Your Click and Collect and Delivery Options

Learn more about your options for how customers can pick up or receive their items.

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