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From Client Profiles to Specials, Here's How Buzz Wax Malibu Grew Its Business

Buzz Cadenhead opened Buzz Wax Malibu in 2010. Over a decade later the self dubbed “auto concierge” offers services ranging from a car wax to DMV visits. Hear how he scaled his automotive hygiene business.

Tipped: How to Expand and Grow Your Restaurant or Bar Business

Expanding your restaurant or bar now comes with different challenges than in the past. In this episode, you will hear from Dieter Seelig of Craft + Carry on how owners view and approach expanding their operations.

Oregon Food Handler Card: The Course, Assessment, Certification

Oregon has specific requirements for what is and is not acceptable when it comes to food handler training. Here’s how to get started.

Gender-Neutral Pricing: How It Works for Your Beauty Business

Looking to learn more about pricing gender-neutral haircuts? Here are ways your business can begin implementing this approach.

How Christian Cowan Is Building a Fashion Retail Brand for Everyone, Everywhere

Christian Cowan tells us how he’s pushed boundaries and leveraged technology to create a brand identity and shopping experience for everyone, everywhere. 

How to Get a Liquor License in Arizona

This guide covers the liquor license requirements in Arizona to make it easier for you to get one.

A Beginner’s Guide to SMS Marketing

SMS marketing can be a powerful addition to your overall marketing strategy. Read our beginner’s guide to learn everything you need to know before launching your first SMS campaign.

Retail Subscription Ideas: 7 Ways to Unlock Incremental Growth

Subscription-based businesses have been growing at a rapid pace, spanning a variety of formats and catering to a range of consumer interests.

Tipped: Connecting The Dots with Technology

In this episode of Tipped, featuring Bryan Solar and Lior Koren of Square, we cover new technology solutions to help streamline your restaurant operations and how to adopt them.

What You Need to Know About Creating a Hybrid QSR/FSR Restaurant

As indoor dining has become the norm again, restaurants aren’t entirely dropping quick-service features that customers have come to love and are instead exploring a hybrid QSR and FSR concept.

What is a 199A Business Income Deduction?

If you own a small business, you should know about the 199A deduction, often referred to as the Qualified Business Income (QBI) deduction. Under this regulation, qualifying small business owners can deduct 20% of the business’s profits.

Tipped: Training, Managing, and Retaining Staff

With food & beverage businesses facing staffing shortages, finding, training, and retaining restaurant staff is at the top of every owner’s mind. Devin Osborne of Fatback’s BBQ in Quincy, IL answers questions on how to find and retain staff.

How to Obtain a Liquor License in Oklahoma

Here’s a guide to help you understand the requirements for getting a liquor license in Oklahoma.

Bank Transfers: What They Are and How to Do Them

For business owners, moving money quickly to your bank account can make the difference in paying your bills on time or not. What is a bank transfer? Are there limits? How do you transfer money from one bank account to another?

Tipped: How to Start a Ghost Kitchen

A delivery and pickup only restaurant model has a lot of advantages. We hear from Harlem Biscuit Company on what it takes to start a digital-first business.

The Case for Giving Hourly Workers Greater Scheduling Flexibility

To attract working parents and other employees who need irregular hours, companies are adapting “shift marketplaces” and other innovative tools.

What is the Circular Economy?

What is the circular economy and why might you want to consider this as a part of your business’s operations?

How Miette Patisserie Increased Cake Sales by 105%

Integrating eCommerce with their POS helped this bakery grow its bottom line.

Tipped: How to Set Prices for Your Food and Beverage Business

Defining your menu prices often goes hand in hand with identifying target customers. Stephanie Rich shares how to set menu item prices to attract the customers you want and adjust for supply chain issues.

How to Keep Customers Coming Back: Turn Your Walk-ins Into Repeat Bookings

Here’s how to keep customers coming back to your beauty business and increase your number of repeat customers.

Beauty Client Communication: Tips and Tools for Your Business

These client relationship tools will help you handle your communications, automate appointments, and save time managing a team.

What You Need to Know to Start a Drive-Thru Beverage Business

What to consider if you plan to open your own drive-thru beverage business.

How to Get a Liquor License in the State of California

Tipped: Building, Registering, and Opening an F&B Business

In this episode, JoJo Soprano, COO of Parry Restaurant Group shares insights on all of the financial and legal considerations a new restaurant business owner needs to undertake when opening a restaurant.

Best Practices for Business Account Reconciliation

Business account reconciliation is an important practice that many owners use to ensure their books are accurate and cash flows smoothly across their ecosystem. Find out more about what it is and how you might use it to improve your business’s finances.

Utah Food Handler Card: The Course, Assessment, and Certification

In Utah, one law applies statewide for food safety certification. Get all the details here.

Exploring Today's Evolution Toward the Future of Payments [Free Tool]

As consumers embrace new ways to pay, sellers are recognizing the ways to accept payments. Square has partnered with Retail Dive to bring you this playbook on navigating the future of payments.

How to Get a Liquor License in Florida

If you’re opening a business that sells alcohol in Florida, you’ll need to obtain applicable liquor licenses.

5 Steps to Mitigate the Risks of Sole-Source Suppliers

If the pain around pricing, delivery or quality is high enough, your company may need to invest in an alternate sourcing scenario to reduce the risk.

What is a Mounted POS and How Does it Work?

Here are the benefits of a wall-mounted POS and what could make it a fit for your business.

6 Ways Restaurateurs Can Fight “Lunchflation” As Costs Rise

Business owners are seeing the impact of inflation reflected in their day-to-day operations. With consumers changing their spending habits as well, what are some ways restaurateurs can fight inflation?

Tipped: Taking the First Steps to Starting a Restaurant or Bar Business

For restaurant and bar business owners, the gap is wide between the desire to start a business and actually taking an order. Andrés Ozzuna of Wooden Table Baking explains how they took the leap to start their business.

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.

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.

How This Restaurant Added Tableside Ordering and Increased Alcohol Sales by 22%

How Scaffidi’s adopted new tools to help grow the bottom line.

What Instagram Algorithm Changes Mean for Your Business

From diversifying your social media strategy to experimenting with your marketing tactics, here are some steps your business can take when there’s a big social media shift.