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September 2024

7 Strategies to Get Your First One Hundred 5-Star Reviews

Increasing average restaurant review ratings can be daunting for business owners, yet they are key to boosting your reputation and growing your business. Here are a few tactics to get your first hundred 5-star reviews online.

Digital Menu App for Restaurants: Top 5 Benefits

5 reasons why you should implement a digital menu app at your restaurant, from increased revenue and enhanced customer experience to leveraging data and analytics.

Everything You Need to Know About Tip Pooling

Tip pooling is a way to distribute tips among restaurant employees. Here’s everything you need to know about how tip pooling works and how to implement it.

7 Strategies to Get Your First One Hundred 5-Star Reviews

Everything You Need to Know About Tip Pooling

Tip pooling is a way to distribute tips among restaurant employees. Here’s everything you need to know about how tip pooling works and how to implement it.

Online Reputation for Restaurants: A Comprehensive Guide to Growing Google Reviews

Most customers will check out your Google reviews before visiting your restaurant. As such, they are vital for your business. Let’s dive into the steps necessary to grow your Google reviews and boost your reputation.

QR Code Payment vs.Traditional Methods: A Comparative Analysis for Restaurants

Restaurants in Asia have used QR code payments for decades. At sunday, we have helped 2000+ food businesses in the US and Europe take the digital plunge since we launched in 2021. And the trend is far from slowing down.

How to create a restaurant survey? + 20 questions examples

Designing a restaurant survey is key to receiving valuable customer feedback and growing your business. Here are a few simple steps and sample questions to get you started.

Digital Menus for Restaurants: A Step-by-Step Guide

Unlock the potential of digital menus for restaurants with our step-by-step guide. Elevate your business with seamless implementation and enhanced customer experience.

How to Implement a Restaurant Pricing Strategy to Boost Revenue

Restaurant pricing is no easy task. But by applying just a few simple measures to your restaurant pricing strategy, you will quickly see your profit margin increase.

Food for Thought: What Is the Best Restaurant Management Software?

Want to launch a restaurant? Great! But without an optimized workflow, you won’t go very far. Learn here how a restaurant management software is the go-to tool for your restaurant’s success.

What Is HACCP Certification and Why Do You Need It?

HACCP certification is the best way to earn your guests’ trust by demonstrating your commitment to safety and health standards. Follow these guidelines to see how it can be done.

What to Know Before Buying a Restaurant

Buying a restaurant can be a financial gamble if you haven’t done your homework prior. Ask yourself the right questions before you seal the deal to ensure you are making the right decision

El Viñedo: Atlanta’s local wine bar

The team at El Viñedo Local have been using sunday to help streamline service and have seen first-hand the impact smart payments can have on the guest experience. They've also got a different approach to how they use QR codes. Rather than leaving them on the table, servers bring them at the end instead of the paper check. We sat down with JB to chat tapas and QR codes.

We looked back over a year…

A big recap of all the improvements and product updates we made to sunday since launching a year ago…

What’s one of the very first things you look at when you’re at a restaurant? The menu, of course! Here are some tips and tricks on how to make an optimal menu to guarantee a fantastic dining experience.

Beyond the Pale Brewing Company

Home to some of Ottawa’s best beer on tap, Beyond the Pale Brewing Company has been brewing beer since 2012. In addition to 16 craft brews, they serve up banging BBQ straight from Smoque House’s Kitchen (highly recommend the Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich!).

Why your guests love contactless payment

Contactless payments have become a must-have for restaurants everywhere, whether through bank card or a dedicated app. Guests swear by this new method of footing the check. Read on to find out why it’s more than just a passing trend.

Order & Pay at sunday: breaking down a successful launch

It’s official, sunday is now the fastest way to pay AND order in a restaurant. Find out how our tech teams got here in just a couple of months.

What servers really think about sunday

Built by restaurateurs for restaurateurs, sunday was designed to make the lives of restaurant staff easier.

How we launched Order & Pay in less than 3 months

Hervé Degrève, the man behind launching Order & Pay, tells why and how sunday built its own solution for easy mobile orders in restaurant.

🚨Order and pay at the same time?!

Here’s the inside scoop on our latest product - Order & Pay via QR code, built for food halls, hotels, quick service restaurants and others.

Digitalizing your restaurant: 4 tips to optimize guest experience

Satisfy your guests, grow loyalty and take care of your diners while increasing the average basket size and saving time? You can do just that by digitalizing your restaurant. Here are sunday's tips.

How to conduct the perfect job interview?

Ah, the infamous job interview... Rookie "recruiters" sometimes dread it more than the applicants themselves. Here are our tips to help you out.

How to implement curbside pickup in your restaurant

During the Covid-19 pandemic, restaurant owners overwhelmingly turned to curbside pickup, and it’s now a staple of the industry. Would you like to give it a go? Read on to find out why it’s a very good idea and how to get started.

What’s a culture fit interview and why does it matter

Technical skills are no longer enough to land your dream job. Neither are soft skills. The culture fit that makes all the difference for sunday and for many other companies. But what is it exactly?

How to manage your restaurant in 13 steps

On top of the administrative and financial management of their restaurant, restaurant owners must ensure guest satisfaction, employee well-being, profitability... Here's a to-do list to help you see things more clearly.

Is there anything more boring than company values?

Probably not… but we do it differently at sunday. Here’s a summary of our values, our identity and everything we stand for.

How to increase the average check size at your restaurant?

Average check size (or basket size) can influence the overall revenue of your restaurant. Here’s how to boost it.

Online payment and CNP for restaurants: everything you need to know

What are CNP payment and how to use them for your restaurants? Everything you need to know to start taking online payments on-site.

Restaurant owners: How to nurture your relationships with your suppliers?

After choosing your food and beverage suppliers, it's important to maintain a good relationship with them. Here’s how.

Why hire people that are better than you?

Yes, why? When you phrase it like that, this rule might sound a bit weird. But that’s exactly the rule we follow every time we want to hire someone new here at sunday.

sunday allows diners to split checks any way they want. Here’s why it matters

When using sunday, guests can choose how they’d like to split the check: divide it evenly, enter the exact amount they want to pay, or pay only for what they’ve had.

Restaurant owners can help their staff earn more tips. Here’s how

Learn how cashless payment methods and QR code payment can promote tipping in your establishment and help your staff get more tips.

Everything you need to know about loyalty programs for restaurants

Loyalty programs, digital or physical loyalty cards… What are the best ways to make the diners of your restaurant more loyal?

Guest satisfaction in restaurants: what you need to know

You’d like to know if your guests are satisfied with your restaurant: we’re sharing the best methods to measure guest satisfaction.

QR code payment: should you adopt it for your restaurant?

Find out how QR code payments works in restaurants and the 6 benefits of online payments for restaurant owners.

How to choose the right POS system for your restaurant

6 questions restaurant owners should ask themselves before choosing a POS system or cash register software + 3 important facts about cash registers.

Everything you need to know about POS systems for restaurants

What’s a POS system? What features should you look for in a POS system? How can these solutions make your restaurant more efficient?

7 tips for using QR codes in your restaurant

Make the most of the QR code trend for your restaurant by following the 7 following tips.

5 good reasons to start using QR codes in your restaurant

Increasingly, restaurant owners are using QR codes to allow their guests to read the menu and pay the bill while respecting social distancing rules. Read on to learn about the many advantages of this system and find out why we recommend it, here at sunday.

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The fastest way to pay

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February 2022

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5 good reasons to start using QR codes in your restaurant

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