{"id":10931,"date":"2017-01-05T03:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T11:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=10931"},"modified":"2017-01-05T03:59:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T11:59:59","slug":"app-eases-the-strain-of-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/app-eases-the-strain-of-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"App eases the strain of waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; color: #333333; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Owner Trip Turbyfill fretted he was losing business from guests wary of the sometimes unpredictable wait. In the spring of 2015, he decided to try a guest management program: the Cake Guest Manager, an iPad-based seating app. Guest Manager integrated with Turbyfills point-of-sale system at the time, but since then he&#8217;s shifted to Cakes POS, which is cloud-based. Cafe Strudel uses another app called 7 Shifts, which integrates with the Cake system, for scheduling. With about 150 seats, a full bar, private dining and catering, Cafe Strudel is the only restaurant owned by Turbyfill and his wife Marila Turbyfill.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">The app, meanwhile, shows the host a map of tables and where they are in the dining process: seated, orders placed, check dropped, closed out.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">The system texts guests when their table is ready. That frees them to wander off and explore shops in the area, rather than waiting at the restaurant.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">The restaurant pays a monthly fee per station for use of the Cake system, which includes technical support, which amounts to about $120 per month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;Essentially the app allows Caf\u00e9 Strudel to better control and predict table availability by following the status of every table in real time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.restaurant-hospitality.com\/technology\/app-eases-strain-waiting\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.restaurant-hospitality.com\/technology\/app-eases-strain-waiting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owner Trip Turbyfill fretted he was losing business from guests wary of the sometimes unpredictable wait. In the spring of 2015, he decided to try a guest management program: the Cake Guest Manager, an iPad-based seating app. Guest Manager integrated with Turbyfills point-of-sale system at the time, but since then he&#8217;s shifted to Cakes POS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}