145 articles
The Tableview Blog
Practical thinking on restaurant technology, operations, and the guest experience, from the team building the platform.
Restaurant Technology
Pay at the Table for Restaurants
Pay at the table means the guest settles the bill at their seat, on a handheld, a card reader or their own phone, and the card never leaves their hand. How it works, the setups, what it costs and what to check before you buy.
Oct 8, 2026
Restaurant Operations
Restaurant SOPs That Staff Actually Follow
How to write restaurant SOPs your team will use: which standard operating procedures to write first, a restaurant SOP template, worked examples for the kitchen, floor and bar, building the operations manual, and keeping it current across locations.
Oct 5, 2026
Marketing & Branding
Restaurant Website Design That Gets Bookings
Restaurant website design that turns visits into bookings: what goes on the first screen, how to lay out the menu, fonts, colours and photos, buttons, templates, accessibility, and examples for bistros, fine dining, takeaways, cafes and bars.
Oct 4, 2026
Restaurant Technology
Pub EPOS System: What a Pub Till Must Handle
Choosing a pub EPOS system? What EPOS for pubs has to handle: bar, table and QR orders on one bill, legal measures, happy hour rules, Challenge 25, tabs, food, keg yield, the tips law, cash-up and VAT, and what it costs.
Sep 29, 2026
Restaurant Technology
Offline POS System: What Works When Wi-Fi Drops
What an offline POS system has to keep doing when the internet fails: orders, receipts and card payments, what cannot work offline, the risk in queued card payments, syncing afterwards, backup connections and a ten-minute outage drill.
Sep 28, 2026
Restaurant Technology
Fast Food POS System: Speed, Combos and Queues
What a fast food POS system has to get right: seconds per order at the counter, meal combos and upsells, kitchen routing by station, QR ordering to shorten the queue, delivery apps in one line, and what it costs an independent shop.
Sep 25, 2026
Restaurant Technology
Pizza POS System: Halves, Deals and Delivery
What a pizza POS system has to get right: half-and-half toppings and how to price them, size-based modifiers, meal deals, oven-aware quoted times, delivery zones and drivers, and the food cost of dough and cheese.
Sep 24, 2026
Restaurant Operations
Bar Tab Management: Pre-Auth and Walkouts
How to run bar tabs without losing money: what a pre-authorisation hold actually does, how big to make it, what to do when a tab outgrows it, closing tabs before last call, and what you can recover when a guest walks.
Sep 23, 2026
Restaurant Technology
Delivery App Integration for Restaurants
How delivery app integration actually works: order injection, two-way menu sync and status callbacks, what native POS connections do that middleware does not, the throttling feature nobody demos, and the parts of tablet chaos that integration will never fix.
Sep 20, 2026
Restaurant Technology
Best POS System for Small Business 2026
What actually matters when a small business buys a POS in 2026: why per register fees punish you, what you can safely skip at one or two tills, how to run the whole thing on the tablet you already own, and what Tableview costs at 69 dollars a month.
Sep 18, 2026
Restaurant Technology
Kitchen Screen System Cost: 2026 Guide
What a kitchen screen system really costs in 2026: screen prices by tier, per-screen software fees, the install nobody quotes, three worked examples from a coffee counter to an eight-screen QSR, and the five-year number.
Sep 18, 2026
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