Is PayPal’s Mobile Payment System a Good Thing? Mobile Point of Sale Systems is all the rage. The newest company to join the race is PayPal. PayPal is already well known for their mobile payment solutions for Smartphones. At the beginning of this year, they launched a mobile payment version for the iPad. PayPal is […]
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Crucial Considerations Before Purchasing a Cash Drawer Point of Sale News has a thorough primer on cash drawer considerations in which they explore all the major factors to help business owners choose the right drawers tailored to their needs: cost; space requirements; durability, reliability, and length of warranty; manual or electronic opening tied to traffic
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Restaurant Closing Time: A Moving Target? When does a restaurant really close? In a classic case of “we said, they said,” a San Francisco quick-serve restaurateur contacted Inside Scoop at SFGate with a conundrum about how to handle late-arriving diners and perceptions of “closing time.” After an incident where diners arrived three minutes before official
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2013 Franchise Forecast: Going Strong The IFA, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy organization, recently released a first quarter update to its economic outlook, which notes that franchise businesses “are expected to employ 8.3 million people in the U.S. by the end of this year and generate $802 billion in revenue.” Quick-service restaurant category, which includes Subway and
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Tax time may be out of sight, but don’t let it be out of mind. The Point of Sale News has some sage advice for small business owners on how to reduce tax stress. An article featuring tips from the Intuit PaymentNetwork (IPN) quotes Mike D’Avolio, Intuit’s Senior Tax Analyst, on how to “de-clutter the
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Full-Service Casual Concepts Look to Fast-Casual Spinoffs and Experiments Nation’s Restaurant News recently published a case study of five casual dining concepts transitioning into the fast-casual sector: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., Denny’s, Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, Famous Dave’s and Red Lobster. Citing shifting consumer needs and a “rocky casual-dining climate,” a fast-casual is
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Avoid the Risks of Outdated Credit Card Processing (Part 2) Continued from Part 1 The Merchant Bill of Rights includes: #7 The right to encrypted card numbers and secure transactions “Obviously, you would never want the credit, debit and PIN numbers of your customers stolen by hackers. Large payments processors prevent hundreds of thousands of
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Avoid the Risks of Outdated Credit Card Processing (Part 1) Business owners may not be aware of the liabilities they face if their credit card processing is not up to date and secured against hackers. Credit card companies may argue that outdated processing technology in effect broadcasts information negligently, and insurance carriers may not cover this,
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Pricing Insights Help Overcome Customer Irrationality Inc.com has some “Pricing Rules You Need to Know” to help “make the most of customer weirdness” — i.e., irrationality about pricing. Their ABCs of Pricing states, “Buyers are irrational. Predictably so,” detailing “three of the frameworks — ‘anchors,’ ‘bumps,’ and ‘charms’ — they use to decide what they’ll pay for
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