Offering your restaurant customers the newest and fastest ways to pay or book a table is a great perk. In fact, there are lots of emerging restaurant tech options for owners to offer their customers and help run their business more smoothly. But one factor trumps all those — food quality. Restaurant Experience Statistics According to this new infographic from Toast, makers of restaurant plefi, 60 percent of survey respondents say that food quality is the most important part of their visit to...

It seems these days it’s getting harder to stay out of discussions — let’s call them discussions — on the web. But not all these discussions are toxic or involve trolls. That’s right. Sometimes they are actual constructive conversations based on a great article people have read. And every once in a while, it’s impossible to tear yourself away from a great conversation on a social media post. Your social media or business blog strategy should at least partially involve creating an engaged...

Every week, Small Business Trends publishes a list of great business networking events. They’re everywhere and it’s likely there is one near your small business — even if it’s not on our list. So this week, we want to know when was the last time you attended one of these events? Do you go all the time, just once in a while, just once … never? A networking event can be a great opportunity to meet like-minded individuals, entrepreneurs in the same position as you. The right event can also be a...

The new YouTube Studio is finally here. YouTube Studio is Out of Beta YouTube Studio features a new dashboard and three new metrics to help you gauge the popularity of your videos uploaded to the site. The tools help you manage your videos and all the other activity on your channels. These updates were launched in beta a little while ago. YouTube says hundreds of thousands of users experienced the beta version of the new tools. Now the company says all creators on the site should have full...

The Microsoft Pix camera app for your iPhone now has a business-friendly feature. The app lets you scan the business card of a contact you’ve just met. It takes the information on that business card and then updates your Contact data for that person. The app also scours LinkedIn to find the new business contact’s profile so the two of you can connect. The Microsoft Pix app is billed as an intelligent phone app for iPhones. Currently, the app is only available on the Apple App Store and can...