Welcome to the Food and Beverage Group!

[AdamB]

Welcome to the group and hello! 👋

This group exists for those in the food and beverage industry to connect, share ideas, and help support each other with unique knowledge and insight.

No need to be shy - say hi and introduce yourself! Talk about your business, tell us a cool customer story, or about the awesome service and products you serve to your customers!

Second, feel free to use images and gifs, animated or otherwise. Everyone loves food and drink pics!

And lastly, thank you for visiting and for joining! We’re really happy to have you here and to hear from you! 

To join the group, visit the Food and Beverage Group homepage and click on the Join Group Hub button on the top right.

[Jdscoffeeshop]

Hello!

[scienceken]

Hi everyone! I'm Ken with Science On Call. We are based in Chicago and provide 24/7 tech support for restaurants across the country. We reduce tech stress and allow restaurants to focus on great food and great service!

[Apt9F]

Hi All - 

Greetings from South Florida. 

We are an unpretentious, neighborhood bar/bites place in Wilton Manors, FL (nestled in the middle of Fort Lauderdale and Oakland Park near the beach).

We have been super fortunate to have amazing community support that has gotten us through the pandemic (thus far).  

Always looking to learn, share, source from other small biz owners.  

You can find us here: 

Apt 9F

Facebook

Instagram

[ryanwanner]

👋Hello from Black Forest, Colorado, just north of Colorado Springs! I'm Ryan, and I run R&R Coffee Cafe and Golden Pine Coffee Roasters! We've been in operation since 2008, and have been with Square since 2011. We've seen our fair share of ups and downs, from moving our business, the Black Forest Fire of 2013, opening a second location, COVID, the closing of the second location, and a massive rethink of everything to keep us up and running. It's been a ride, but there's not much I would change. Happy to be in the F&B group with all of ya!

[Kickcakes]

Hi from Our CupCakery, Dublin, OH.  We've been in biz since 2004. We make delicious cakes, cupcakes, cookies and other sweet goodies.  We created OCC to embody the quote  “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away” Picasso.  In addition to making sweet treats we provide classes, team building events, camps, and parties for kids of all ages.

Our business is about sharing our love of baking.  We have a small retail operation where customers can "build their own cupcake".  We're planning to eliminate that part of our service by adding ecommerce.  Not an easy transition but we want to expand our events in response to requests.  If anyone has done this transition with a long time brick and mortar operation we'd love to hear any advice.

Opps sorry don't know how to make it smaller.

[joe1950]

Hello, we have a small sandwich shop in the Boston Public Market called Beantown Pastrami Company and are trying to figure out how to create an economical touch screen kiosk for ordering away from our booth. If anybody has any specific suggestions or experience with this it would be great to hear about it.

Thank you

[ryanwanner]

Hi @joe1950 !

We've been using the KioskBuddy app on a spare square stand system for a few months now, and I am pretty impressed. Marvin and his team are fast at responding and fixing issues. You can find it in the apps marketplace on your dashboard.

Do be sure to ask for the beta version of KB, though, once you're registered: it pushes orders through the orders screen on your point of sale and has inventory integration. The release version is a little weird with printing and reporting.

[salvadorpuro1]

Hello everyone from Puro Nuez!

We roast fresh everyday over 80+ Varieties

of premium nuts utilizing spicy, seasonal, sweet, classic and savory flavors.

Our Square POC gas been wonderful from our first day we started, 10-06-2017.

The menu we have consists of several size packages and choices. Our POC has easily been able to allow for seamless transactions.

www.puronuez.com

@puro_nuez

[Wildwolf]

Hello all 🔥🔥🔥

Thanks for the invite Adam

We are Indian & Bangladeshi cuisines Takeaway in Stourbridge UK.

more info: www.The-Tandoori.co.uk

[Myartisano]

Thank you for the invite!!

I look forward to learn from other members experience and be happy to share my own.

I wish you all a wonderful day!

Eduardo

[Titas]

Thanks for the invitation!

[ImageReps]

Thanks for the invite!  Long-time foodie, previous restaurant owner and now marketing and operations consultant for the food and beverage industry!  Looking forward to the discussion!

[biscuits]

Hi,

My son and I started a food truck @biscuits.at.mikes serving breakfast biscuit sandwiches...   We are a breakfast only truck in the Boulder area and we are growing in leaps and bounds this year.  We started last summer in the midst of the panademic, but that seems to have worked in our favor.  Getting ready to launch our second truck.

[allwhowander]

Hey Adam and fellow F&B peeps! So happy to see this group materialize. I rely heavily on Square POS and online to manage our fast casual craft beer pub/pizza joint. We wouldn’t be where we are today (five years later) without Square—especially making it through 2020. I get excited to hear about new features related to F&B, and can’t wait to collaborate with y’all to better serve our industry. Cheers 🍻 

[SeaSacs]

Hello and thanks for the invite. I own a casual seafood spot in Lebanon, TN (outside of Nashville) called Seafood Sacs. We opened up a brick and mortar back in March and so far, we are enjoying it. Just trying trying to find ways to keep our offerings and products reasonable and make a profit. 

[jojostreats]

Thank you for the invite! Hi everyone! 

About us: We make hand made chocolates and cake pops. We ship all over the US.

My business name is: JoJo's Treats N' Sweets Inc.  you can find us on FB, Instgram, google etc.

I would like to know if anyone on here uses invoices? We do all our orders with the invoice orders.

What I don't like is I can't block out dates unless I manually add them and I would like to have a calendar

that would hook up with my invoices.

Thanks for your input. Jo

[Rooben]

Hey any reason I can’t start a thread? Says that my account isn’t authorized.

[GourmetOnWheels]

@Rooben That happens when you are not logged in.

René

[spnick]

hi all- I have operated a coffee shop and roast coffee in Bellevue wa

cafecesura.com

[Tamyra_Paunchy]

Shawn! Small world. 🙂 Hope all is well! Cheers, Tamyra

[spnick]

Hi!!