The Avocado
Practical operations, payments, marketing, and industry guidance for culinary entrepreneurs.
September’s Avocado POS updates connect delivery and voice AI orders to your kitchen, add catering deposits, and share loyalty balances across locations.
An analysis of 111,643 restaurant orders shows how often guests choose paid add-ons, the AOV difference, and how owners can measure upselling.
A kitchen display doesn't fix your ticket flow — it shows you that you don't have one, which is exactly what a new operation needs to see.
A new truck doesn't have an awareness problem, it has a repeat problem — a week-by-week plan that needs no ad spend.
Most bad reviews come from customers who'd have told you directly if you'd asked while they were still holding the food — plus the honest truth about review gating.
Cash discount, dual pricing, and surcharging all move your processing cost to the customer, but they carry different rules and read very differently to a guest.
Followers are rented and phone numbers are owned — how to collect them properly, get consent right, and send messages people don't opt out of.
Explore seven new Avocado restaurant POS features for tax management, payouts, cash rounding, reporting, online ordering, kiosks, and device control.
An anonymized analysis of 8,043 food-truck orders shows why summer is not automatically stronger for every operator—and what owners should plan for.
Standard menu engineering asks which items are popular and which are profitable, then sorts them into four boxes — stars, plow-horses, puzzles, dogs. It's genuinely useful advice, and it was built for a dining room.
