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Are you prepared for the Canadian GST Tax Change?
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Effective January 1, 2008, the Goods and Services tax (GST) rate in Canada will be reduced from 6% to 5%.
Remember to change the rate in SpeedLine.
To update your tax rate in Store Manager, click here. |
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If your Customer Care Support Agreement expires in December or
January, renew your contract now to ensure continuous coverage when you
need it.
To renew your support, call Wannitta Koehn:
888-400-9185,
ext. 2230
or email:
wkoehn@speedlinesolutions.com |
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| Planning for Profit, Part 3:
Prep Planning |
| In this final installment of the Operations Planning series, learn how to use Prep Planning. Prep Planning is designed to reduce food costs by accurately forecasting food prep requirements. Based on your item sales history and forecast, SpeedLine recommends an optimal plan that can help even your newest managers and staff prepare efficiently for the day’s business. |
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| Before setting up Prep Planning:
- Set up Sales Forecasting, (if you haven't done so already) so that SpeedLine can use forecasted sales to predict your prep needs.
- Use SpeedLine for at least two weeks. This will provide historical sales data to the Prep Planning tool. Prep plan numbers become even more accurate after you have completed six weeks of sales with SpeedLine.
To set up and start using Prep Planning, complete these five steps:
Did you miss Parts 1 and 2 of this series?
Click here to read Planning for Profit, Part 1: Forecasting (in the October issue of SpeedLine News & Advice)
Click here to read Planning for Profit, Part 2: Scheduling (from November)
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Holiday Marketing |
How can you generate business during the holiday season?
- Send holiday emails to your customers. Include a special offer if they order before December 31st.
- Mail Christmas cards with gift cards/certificates to regular customers. Encourage customers to give gift cards to their families and friends.
- In a PMQ Canada article, Diana Coutu of Diana's Gourmet Pizza shared lots of marketing ideas, including the "no-peeking" envelopes she gives customers with their orders during the holidays.
“This [no-peeking] promotion is meant to be fun, and encourage people to come back in January, typically when the restaurant industry slows down,” Diana says. If the customer brings in the unopened envelope, or gives it to their driver, between January 1 and February 5th, they win what’s inside: anything from $5 to $50 gift certificates, six free cookies, or a free 2-liter Pepsi.
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| Resetting the YTD Sales |
Now is the time to reset SpeedLine's YTD sales for 2008. On the
Customer screen in Terminal and in your Customer Sales Reports, you can
see the number of orders, and sales dollars, a customer has given you
"YTD" and in "Total." If you want your Year-To-Date figures to begin in
January, make sure to reset the YTD sales on New Year’s Day.
It’s easy! Click
here to see how to re-set your YTD sales.
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| Pablo’s Pizza on Advance Orders |
Paul Knaysi, owner of Pablo’s Pizza in Grand Junction, CO, tells Pizza Marketplace how he uses SpeedLine to manage large-group orders and deferred orders easily. in this Pizza Marketplace article. |
"Years ago, a large order for a school pizza party or other catering event usually was handled by means of a note in the pizzeria logbook or taped to the point-of-sale system. Occasionally, those notes got lost or overlooked, resulting in chaos when the customer came looking for their order.
Today, the POS system at many pizzerias accepts orders days or even weeks in advance as one way to ensure the order doesn’t get lost in a pile of papers on the manager’s desk."
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To read the entire Pizza Marketplace article, click here.
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With Sincere Thanks
We'd like to express our appreciation for your business over the last year and wish you a happy, healthy holiday season.
Merry Christmas and every blessing in the New Year!
— John deWolde, Terry Haan, and everyone here at SpeedLine |
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