Own a Restaurant?
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Dine Consulting is a restaurant technology company that specializes in restaurant technology consulting and systems integration. Their offerings include restaurant cost control systems, business intelligence, and automation tailored for the restaurant industry. Dine Consulting serves clients by maximizing the use of Margin Edge and Quickbooks Online minimizing accounting complexities through their proprietary software platforms and expert consulting team. They aim to increase profitability, provide clear financial visibility, and enhance operational efficiency for their restaurant clients.
DINE SYSTEM
Save up to 20 manager hours a week!
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Automated Invoice Processing and Bill Pay
- Send photos of invoices with the Margin Edge app, in email files or through EDI integrations
- Margin Edge will process your invoices in 24 to 48 hours
- Pay invoices from your cell phone using the Margin Edge app.
02.
Real Time Profit & Loss
- SpotOn Point of Sale System is connected to Margin Edge (ME)
- Margin Edge, DAVO Sales Tax, Gusto Payroll and your Bank’s Checking/Credit Card Accounts are connected to Quickbooks Online (QBO)
- Margin Edge sends Invoices (with pictures) to QuickBooks Online
- Invoices are matched to Payments in QBO
03.
Weekly Key Item Inventories
- Inventories are a lot of work. We make inventories work for you.
- Product prices updated automatically
- Real time monthly zero declining budgets
Theoretical food usage reporting helps you manage waste, theft, and portioning
04.
Automated 3rd party delivery with elevated pricing
- Connect DoorDash, GrubHub and UberEats orders to POS
- Its A Checkmate elevates 3rd party delivery prices by 25% passing commissions on to customer.
05.
DAVO automates Sales Tax
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The stress of having enough to cover your taxes. The fear of falling behind. The concern over keeping compliant. With DAVO, it all disappears.
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DAVO connects to your POS system and will automatically set aside, file and pay your sales tax — on time and in full.
06.
Enforce Clock-in to Schedule
- Save time & reduce labor costs by using integrated scheduling.
- Hourly employees can clock in up to 5 minutes early or up to 5 minutes late without management approval.
- Give staff the ability to view and make changes to their schedule, see tips made, and receive communications from app.
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Send Payroll & Tips to Gusto Payroll with one click
- Automate your tip distribution with even the most complex of rules and an unlimited number of locations
- Review and easily update clock-ins and break times with a 2-way sync to your SpotOn POS
08.
Pay Employee Wages & Tips Weekly with Direct Deposit
- Direct deposit can save you hours each month.
- Employees find their routing and bank acct number with their bank app & view pay stub with Gusto’s mobile app
- Gusto will remind you when payroll is due
The biggest risk for the restaurant industry is rising wages and food costs.
If you’re not constantly working to improve profitability and grow your revenue, the costs will take over.
Key findings illustrating the industry’s economic conditions include:
- Growth will continue: The foodservice industry is forecast to reach $997 billion in sales in 2023, driven in part by higher menu prices.
- Industry help wanted: The foodservice industry workforce is projected to grow by 500,000 jobs, for total industry employment of 15.5 million by the end of 2023.
- Building on a Solid Foundation: For 70% of operators, business conditions have settled into or are on the path to their new version of normal.
- Consumers want restaurant experiences: 84% of consumers say going out to a restaurant with family and friends is a better use of their leisure time than cooking and cleaning up.
- Rising costs create challenges: 92% of operators say the cost of food is a significant issue for their restaurant.
- Competition is heating up: In 2024, 47% of operators expect competition to be more intense than last year.
Food and labor costs are the two most significant line items for a restaurant, each accounting for approximately 33 cents of every dollar in sales. Other expenses – such as utilities, occupancy, supplies, general/administrative and repairs/maintenance – combine to represent about 29% of sales.
This leaves a pre-tax profit margin of roughly 5% for a typical restaurant, which means significant cost increases are not sustainable for most restaurants.
Profitability is down from pre-pandemic levels
Not surprisingly, the rising costs are having a significant impact on profitability:
What if things could be different?
What if restaurants could gain a quarter-point here, a half-point there, and move toward double digit profit margins?
The reality is, there is a path to higher profits for restaurants, and the needle isn’t in a haystack, it’s in your tech stack
When hard work and technology come together your restaurant’s profit margins can go from the 5% that you’ve come to expect to the double digits that you deserve. Save time and reduce operational costs with smarter technology designed to help your business operate more efficiently.
Testimonials
What Clients Are Saying
“We save 8 hours a week using SpotOn Teamwork Tip allocation and One Click Payroll .”
PHILLIP-Cafe monarcH
“With Margin Edge our weekly and monthly inventories allow us to compare actual to theoretical usage resulting in lower food cost. We have also reduced the hours our managers spend on paperwork and tasks.”
Matt- Jake's & THE GARRET
"SpotOn Reserve allows our guests to select seats like in a movie theater at our Teppan Grills which save us from having a full time reservation person to answer the phone."
Mike-Kasai
"With Margin Edge, Quickbooks Online and Gusto Payroll we have a real time Profit and Loss reporting for the first time."
Kaj-vovomeena