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Microsoft announced that support for Great Plains will be discontinued in the near future. This has left a lot of restaurant groups wondering what their next move should be regarding technology deployment. So, what are the necessary steps and essential information to remember regarding the end-of-life for Great Plains and your organization's plans?

AI (artificial intelligence) is all the buzz right now. AI is sprinkled throughout our lives; in some cases, we may not even realize it. Think about the impact Alexa and Siri have on our daily lives; we can find out today’s forecast, ask for directions or even ask Alexa to turn off the lights!

At Tablespoon, our mission is to help restaurant groups grow their business faster and more effectively. So, the answers were easy when Sage Intacct asked us what KPIs we thought restaurant groups needed to track!

If you use Sage Intacct or looking to implement Sage Intacct for your restaurant's accounting and financial management, there may be some features you're not taking advantage of. To help you make the most of the Sage Intacct platform, our Sage Intacct consultants, who are experts in the restaurant industry, have provided tips and tricks to help you save time, increase efficiency, and elevate your restaurant accounting to the next level.

Generative AI will impact 10 to 50% of work tasks for 80% of the US workforce. Occupations with the most significant opportunity are accountants, tax preparers, business analysts, and mathematicians. It's unbelievable how generative AI has impacted every industry and job function. This includes the restaurant industry.

Meet Stefanie Collins! She's one of Tablespoon's Staff Accountants. April marked a year since joining the Tablespoon team! We are excited to celebrate this milestone with Stefanie and tell you more about her and why she loves working at Tablespoon.

For years, CFOs have been urged to modernize. Restaurant groups were not immune to this statement. Those who didn't act during the pandemic are now even further behind. Automation in the restaurant industry is increasing at a rapid pace.

Join Tablespoon to learn what does AI and verging technologies do for restaurant groups, and what it means for the finance function.

While consumers seem to love home delivery services, the results for restaurants can be mixed. Some operators are choosing to operate their own delivery services. Of course, pizza and Chinese restaurants have been in the delivery business for years. And in major metro areas, all types of operators offer delivery. Some of the major chains like Panera are investing in...

How many systems and finance and accounting applications do you use daily? Are you manually reporting in Excel? Do you feel like you're Monty Python on a quest for the Holy Grail of accurate financial reporting? If you've answered yes to any of these questions, then you have a problem.

Sage Intacct's 2023 Release 1 was released last month. Many exciting features elevated the modules and tools Sage Intacct users currently use. Sage Intacct issues four quarterly releases per year – each release offers enhancements, updates, and features providing best-in-class financial management automation.

The leading restaurant industry-focused Sage Intacct partner Tablespoon is a gold sponsor of the Restaurant Leadership Conference held April 16-19, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. Restaurant Leadership Conference is the home for restaurant executives to hone their leadership skills, discuss solutions to industry challenges, and connect with other senior leadership.

The leading restaurant industry-focused Sage Intacct partner, Tablespoon, sponsors the Wendy's Franchise Association (WFA) for a second year.

Join the Tablespoon team on Thursday, March 16th at 2PM ET, as they walk through Sage Intacct’s the latest quarterly release.

It's no secret that saving on utilities can mean immense profit for restaurant groups. However, energy prices have soared from California to Connecticut due to demand and the ongoing Russian and Ukraine Conflict. As a result, restaurant groups have been hit with a double whammy between food cost inflation and rising utility costs.

Tablespoon streamlined a Fort Worth-based diner's accounting processes and tailored their managed accounting services to Spiral’s specific needs. Tablespoon’s Managed Accounting Services, delivered through Sage Intacct cloud financial management software, is a powerful combination. It’s the one-two punch growing restaurant groups need.

How many hours are you spending monthly on manual processes within your restaurant group's accounting department? Managing processes can be time-consuming for accounting and finance teams, especially when issuing and processing invoices, keeping track of budgets, and creating financial reports.

As most growing restaurant groups know, there is a ticking time limit to QuickBooks. While the QuickBooks-and-Excel combination may have served you well, however; there are inevitable drawbacks that can limit growth.

Early on, while quickly growing, running your restaurant group on QuickBooks makes sense. However, as you grow and become more established, you need more than what QuickBooks can offer. You stand to lose by relying on manual approaches (i.e., spreadsheet accounting).

Happy New Year (or maybe not If you are dreading the beginning of yet another tax season!) You may be shrinking from 1099 reporting, which can be one of the most time-consuming parts of the tax season for many business owners and their accounting departments.