Earlier this week, the popular San Francisco chain La Boulangerie launched an innovative and admirable new pizza concept, charging customers only $2.75 for an entire pizza – talk about a bargain!  While providing delicious, organic food at an affordable price is certainly commendable, we wondered, is La Boulangerie eating its own margin? To find out, […]

In this blog post we will explain how we do localization for invoice header fields. Examples of header fields include Invoice Number, Date, Tax and Total. Everyday we at Plate IQ process invoices from more than 60K vendors. These include invoices from major food distributors, liquor vendors, produce/meat suppliers,and also boutique farm to table vendors. […]

GoDaddy Social and Plate IQ have teamed up to offer insights you wouldn’t necessarily expect from our two companies. How does accounts payable automation even vaguely correspond with building a customer experience? Not an altogether obvious correlation, right? Well, in the restaurant industry you have to think creatively, and in this webinar, “5 Ways to […]

There are many benefits to automating your restaurant’s accounts payable process. By following some accounts payable best practices, you can improve your restaurant’s bottom line while freeing up valuable time to spend with your customers and food. Automation is an ideal solution for reducing the time you spend on common — and often headache-inducing — […]

For many restaurant operators, managing the accounts payable process can be one of the most time-consuming, and least rewarding, parts of the job. On top of this — perhaps in part because of this — restaurant accounting often is fraught with human error. The result is an inefficient and ineffective process that costs restaurants valuable […]

With the advent of self-pay kiosks, kitchen display systems and even Flippy, the automated hamburger-flipping robot, it’s clear that automation has arrived to the restaurant industry. And timing couldn’t be better – with intense competition and continued margin pressure, not to mention an increase of nearly 10% in actual paper invoices being received, every operator […]

Compeat, the only fully integrated restaurant accounting, back office, workforce and intelligence management software, announced today a partnership with Plate IQ, a technology company that helps restaurants improve and automate their Accounts Payable (AP) processes. Beginning immediately, Compeat and Ctuit users can leverage Plate IQ’s full suite of Accounts Payable automation tools to help manage […]