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You don’t have to be a franchise with multiple locations to get all the benefits of a menu publishing and business analytics platform. However, for a small business like Gilroy Bowl, a family-friendly bowling alley and restaurant, having the right marketing platform is crucial to improving the customer experience.

Step in Untappd for Business.

Untappd for Business, a platform used by nearly 20,000 businesses in 75 countries worldwide, allows users to effortlessly build their menus from a massive database of beers, wines, spirits, and more while including intuitive options to add food and other offerings with just a few clicks. Once created, the menus can be shared to digital display screens, printed, or through a QR code to create the perfect guest experience.

You can also publish Untappd for Business menus on your website and to the Untappd app, giving customers multiple avenues to access them and increasing customer engagement.

“We love UTFB [Untappd for Business],” Gilroy Bowl General Manager Chris Simas says. “We wouldn’t be where we are now—very busy—if we didn’t have UTFB.”

When was the last time you went to a restaurant, bar, taproom, or brewery tasting room and didn’t have a menu? That’s probably never happened. Menus are an integral part of the customer experience, telling you what’s available to order. But more than an ordering tool, menus—both digital and print—give an establishment the opportunity to showcase its brand.

An all-encompassing digital beverage platform, Untappd for Business feeds into the over 3,000,000-beer Untappd database, allowing any Verified Venue food/beverage facility to swiftly build a print, digital, or QR code menu to share with craft beer enthusiasts.

Additionally, the robust Untappd for Business tool provides easy access to data on the most popular beers in your region and recent industry trends, guiding decisions on which beer to stock or brew for your customers.

With Untappd for Business, you can access a world-class beer database, receive top-notch analytics, and create digital and print menus that will set your brand up for success.

Running any type of hospitality business like a bar, restaurant, or brewery is a challenging ordeal.

With so many moving parts — ordering supplies, creating menus, and the overall operations, managers barely have enough time to make sure things are getting done.

Then, there’s creating a schedule to ensure you have staff on hand to run everything smoothly.

Primitive methods of writing schedules by hand, or even “advanced” ways of putting them together with a computerized spreadsheet, can tack on hours to a manager’s week and, more importantly, take them away from more critical tasks.

Scheduling software tools, like North Carolina-based Schedulefly, have swooped in to solve that issue, saving companies time and money while streamlining operations.

We heard from Schedulefly Co-Founder Wil Brawley, Mad Mole Brewing Taproom and Operations Manager Byron McSweeney, and Big Red F Restaurant Group Owner and Chef Dave Query, who explain how using scheduling software is a win-win for brewery operations—and many other hospitality services—big and small.