Restaurant Industry Trends

Each month we provide the industry with the most up-to-date information available.
Bookmark this page and refer to it to see how your restaurant is performing compared to national averages.

This is provided free-of-charge to the industry. Halo customers benefit from more advanced reporting and comparative data built right into the Halo Secure Web-Based POS system.

Halo Customers Outperform the Market:

Halo customers consistently beat the rest of the market when compared to data provided by the National Restaurant Association.

In the graph below, year-over-year same store sales are compared.

What You’re Seeing:

Over the past year, the restaurant industry was hit hard by the economy. Even recently, the news from industry experts is that many restaurants are still struggling with their sales.

In contrast, Halo customers weathered the economic storm much better than their non-Halo counterparts. Month after Month they outperform the rest of the industry.

While we don’t have the exact answers, here are some possibilities:

• Halo customers are just better operators than the rest of the industry. As we’ve worked with them, it has become clear to us that Halo customers pay more attention to the little things in their business that give them an edge over their competition. The fact that they’ve invested in Halo is simply an extension of the amount of care that they put into every aspect of their business.
• Halo customers have better access the information that can help them to drive revenue and decrease costs. Every Halo customer has access to our industry leading Enterprise Manager system. This allows them to both control and report on every aspect of their business from anywhere in their world. Let’s say they’re running a promotion; Halo gives them the ability to see how that promotion is impacting their business from day one. They don’t have to wait a week to see if a promotion is giving results. They can see it immediately, and make changes, if necessary.
• Halo customers are growth-minded naturally. One of the predominant reasons that customers choose Halo over the myriad of competitors is because it gives them the ability to grow their business to more locations. Many of our customers came to us with a single location and a dream of a restaurant chain. With Halo, they’ve been able to realize that dream through strong management and a system that allows them to focus on their operations, not building a technology infrastructure. By the way, some of our customers simply choose not to open more locations, instead they use Halo to give them more freedom in their personal life. If you just said, “Yeah, right. Personal Life. I don’t even know what that means anymore…”, you might want to take a look at Halo Secure Web-Based POS.

Olympic Impact on Restaurants and Food Service
In Vancouver/Whistler
Reach 128% Sales Increase In Week One!

Vivonet releases sales data from 1,584 restaurants and foodservice outlets…

Vancouver, BC: Restaurants in Yaletown and downtown Vancouver are reaping the benefits of the first week of 2010 Olympic spending with sales increases of 128% and 89%, respectively, compared to February 12-21 of 2009.

See graphs below:

Olympic Impact Across Canada

Vancouver Downtown Restaurant Sales Change from 2009

Yaletown Restaurant Sales Change from 2009

Vancouver Sales by Category

About the Data:

Data is collected and aggregated from Halo Secure Web-Based POS customers. At no point is any data available to other customers, nor is any data shared in any way that could identify a customer.

This information is provided as-is and while we believe it is accurate, we make no guarantees. Any business decisions made should be made with information from a variety of sources.

Basically, what we’re saying is…use your head and don’t make any rash decisions because of one graph. We’re kidding (sort of), we know you won’t