The American Legion Post 690

The American Legion is the largest organization of United States war veterans. They have approximately 14,000 posts worldwide and provide social and mutual aid to the United State’s armed forces. At Cafe Cartel we are proud to have friends at the American Legion Post 690 in Palatine, Illinois. Jeff Von Horn along with all of the vets and members of post 690 annually host Thanksgiving dinner for active service members in their community.

 

Being away from home for the holidays is difficult for anyone. When you’re a naval recruit that isn’t able to return home for Thanksgiving it can be especially difficult. As a veteran’s organization the American Legion Post 690 is all too familiar and began hosting Thanksgiving dinner with local active military as guests of honor.

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With the growth of the medical marijuana industry your dispensary now has many options when coming to choose between a scale for measuring your product. Here are a few things to consider when making your purchase:

   

 

Q: How accurate do you need to be?
A:On the market the two most common are a tenth (0.1) of a gram and a hundredth (0.01) of a gram scale. Most dispensaries will only need to be as accurate as a tenth of a gram.

 

Q: Do you need digital or manual?
A: Digital scales have proven to be most accurate which has rendered manual scales almost out of the marketplace.

 

Q: How much volume will you need to measure at a time?
A: Do state regulations limit the amount you are allowed to distribute to one customer at a time? If so, you just need to make sure the capacity of your scale meets this need. If you plan of distributing large quantities look into a larger capacity scale.

 

Q: Are there any state regulations you need to consider for your dispensary?
A: Most states only require a tenth of a gram measurement in dispensaries but that may change. In Colorado dispensaries need to be more accurate and need a scale that measures to a hundredth of a gram.

 

Q: How can I find a scale that will work with my dispensary?
A: The easiest way to achieve this is to integrate your scale into your business point of sale system. This will register your medical marijuana weight into the system automatically without running the risk of human error. Learn more about this at cafecartel.com

Written by: Sierra Adkins

What is ROI?

ROI stands for a return on investment.Ensuring that you get a great ROI is one of the main things on a small business owner’s mind when shopping for a restaurant point of sale. Making sure you make a good choice for your business and your bottom line are important for business success. Here are some things to look for to maximize your return on investment for your restaurant and bar.

1.) Measuring ROI with the ROI formula

 

Gain from investment means all of the possible benefits you get from a point of sale system in terms of money and time. You’ll want to make sure that your gain from the investment is high for your ROI analysis.

2.) Increase your restaurant profits with a point of sale system

Bars and restaurants know that a basic way to save money is portion control. Making sure that inventory isn’t wasted or over served in the kitchen and at the bar are key factors in keeping costs down and profits high. Cafe Cartel’s portion control feature for bars and restaurants helps you manage this. Portion control management in CCS is a recipe building tool that will help you get the most out of your inventory orders while creating the recipes for your kitchen staff.

Addressing shrinkage in your restaurant and bar is another important factor in managing the costs and increasing your profits. One of the many ways that your point of sale can help you with the shrink in your restaurant and bar is the unique integrated surveillance system that lets you view what is being rung up on the system as it is being rung up. This eliminates the risk of employees charging friends or themselves inaccurate prices.

More Features to Reduce Shrinkage in your Restaurant and Bar:

  • Eliminate administrative error with fixed prices for menu items and increased control over discounts and happy hour.
  • Get detailed reports and invoices at any point in time in order to avoid vendor fraud.

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Using Halloween as an opportunity for creative promotions is a great way in generating excitement around your business and having fun with your customers. This guide will help you to put on some fun promotional events for you to generate excitement and increase business for your hookah lounge.

Step 1

Come up with a great promotional event idea. Start with one night a week so you can focus your attention and then plan on expanding your events calendar. Here’s a list of ideas to get started:

  • Game Night
  • Spoken Word or Poetry Readings
  • Comedy Night/ Open Mic Night
  • Concerts
  • Karaoke
  • Fundraisers
  • Mixer
  • Ladies Night
  • Belly Dancing Night
  • Monday Night Football

Photo Credit: Tulip Hookah Cafe Langhorne, Pennsylvania

 

Our friends over at Tulip Hookah Cafe have a great Halloween themed event idea. They of throw a scary movie night every Monday during the month of October up until Halloween.

Step 2

Decide what type of discount or promo you should have. This lets your customers know that you appreciate them along with encouraging them to bring friends and spread the word of mouth. Consider a $10 all you can smoke night or a half off happy hour. To go with Their scary movie night Tulip hookah Cafe decided to intensify the scary movie by combining with a $10 all you can smoke night promotion. This creates a dark, spooky, smoky atmosphere to watch their scary movies. Whether it was intentional or not committing to the theme even in the discount is an ingenious idea.

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We love seeing some of our clients grow their business! Congratulations to Tuttle Click Cafe on the three new locations opening up in Orange County, California!

Tuttle Click is an automotive team based out of California. They base their company on a team centered environment which continued with their cafe expansion. They decided to expand their business by offering a full cafe in two of their locations to better cater to their customers. They also use the cafe as a venue to show appreciation to their employees by celebrating their automotive team’s birthdays and anniversaries monthly. Since the cafe did so well in the first two locations they sought to expand the cafe to three more, but before they could do this they had to fix a problem they had with their current point of sale system.

Tuttle Click Cafe had originally chosen PC America for their point of sale software but were soon experiencing issues with the systems constant crashing. Their attempts to resolve the issue with PC America were unsuccessful and decided to look online for different options for their new locations.

After talking with Tuttle Click Cafe and hearing about their experience with their current point of sale, Cafe Cartel’s CEO Mark Phillips sprung to action to make sure their transition to the new system was as easy as possible. We ended up putting Cafe Cartel’s point of sale systems in the three new locations and they were very successful. So successful they decided to make the switch and replace the two other PC America terminals with Cafe Cartel point of sale systems. Since making the change the software has been running smoothly and has the reliability they were looking for in a point of sale system. Cafe Cartel’s point of sale for coffee shops has a simple set-up and online tutorials that they used to upload our inventory items. It also features inventory portion control and easy to use employee labor scheduling that can all be accessed remotely. No more having to drive to all of their locations to adjust a single value.

 

Congratulations Tuttle Click Cafe on the three new locations and thanks for choosing Cafe Cartel!