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Articles for café and restaurant owners: page 2
Practical guides without fluff: your own website versus aggregators, QR menus, delivery, loyalty and faster order pickup.
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Delivery
Your own ordering website or an aggregator: what pays off for a café
What an aggregator’s commission really costs, when your own website pays for itself and how to run both channels without losing new guests.
5 minute read
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A QR menu for your café: how to build a digital menu that sells
What a QR menu should do, why it beats a PDF, where to put QR codes in your venue and how not to lose guests who don’t like scanning.
5 minute read
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How to start food delivery at your café: a step-by-step plan
Delivery menu, zones and minimum order, own couriers or a delivery service, packaging and online payment: what to prepare so delivery doesn’t eat your profit.
5 minute read
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A loyalty programme for your coffee shop: cashback, tiers and birthdays
Which loyalty programme suits a coffee shop: stamps, a discount or cashback, how to set up tiers, when to give a discount and how not to give away your margin.
4 minute read
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Translating your menu into English and other languages: a menu for visitors
How to translate a menu for tourists without funny mistakes: what to translate, how to write dish names and ingredients, where machine translation helps.
5 minute read
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How to hand out orders faster at your café
Pre-orders, online payment, kitchen tickets and a sold-out list: how to get rid of queues at the counter and hand out orders on time at peak hours.
5 minute read
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Online table booking: how to take bookings without phone calls
How to set up online booking at a café or restaurant: time slots, confirmation, reminders, a website widget and a Google button, and how to reduce no-shows.
4 minute read
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A Ukrainian café in Poland, Czechia or Slovakia: your own ordering website
How a Ukrainian café in the EU can take orders directly: website languages, online payment, delivery, aggregators, and what to check with an accountant.
5 minute read
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Do the maths or get started
Two steps café and restaurant owners start with: work out how much the aggregator takes, or launch your own ordering website straight away.
How much does the aggregator take?
Work out your commission at the rate in your contract, and what the same turnover would cost on your own website.
Open the calculatorWork out the full costLaunch your own ordering website
Fill in the request in a few minutes (name, look and contacts) and see your website straight away.
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