Restaurants, B&B, hotels: the answer is in the cloud

The catering and hospitality sectors are facing a great challenge, which implies great risks and great opportunities at the same time. For hotels, B & Bs and restaurants, a large selection is about to open which will reward efficiency and the ability to adapt extremely quickly to market demands. We have long started to explore this great transition phase, in which it was evident that Italian SMEs soon realized (but not always applied) that the path of innovation is the main road for rapid adaptation to the changed context. >

Micropedia, the solution is in the cloud

In this excursus here emerge solutions such as those proposed by Micropedia, a software house in Naples associated with Assintel that has created a series of proposals that perfectly match the needs of companies in which the mission is exactly to deal with companies in the HORECA sector, in particular restaurants, pizzerias, ice cream shops and pastry shops.

this is Not about solutions, botched love affairs (as many are seeing), set up to bring online tools to the back of the face of a question that suddenly is growing, but projects are consolidated which may prove to be, as is well illustrated by the General Manager Marco Ilardi , effective immediately. The time of the adoption null and void, maximum propulsion in the context of the digital transformation of its traditional activities. We have analyzed some of the possibilities, from which emerges an element that can make all the difference, even before any technical aspect: the simplicity, the flat learning curve, the immediate integration into the everyday flow of work. Why this is critical: speed of execution and immediate feedback with all the potential the cloud can offer.

we will show You some practical examples of solutions in the cloud offered by Micropedia in the various sectors in which it operates.

Hotelpedia

whether it is a small hotel, a b&b is family run, chain of holiday homes or a structure that is more complex, Hotelpedia is a hotel management in the cloud-the Micropedia, which offers all the options that may be useful for the purpose:

The program allows integrated management of the hotel with the restaurant for the debiting of the accounts on the rooms, the bar and well the beach and meeting rooms (with the possibility, as in the case of groups, to load the rooms through a roominglist in excel format.

From the hotel to the accounts, from the electronic invoice to the interface with the channel manager, or a booking engine, up to reporting for the statistical analysis of structures: all in one solution, that can be enjoyed both offline on a single location, as online at a variety of remote locations. All of this starts from just 30 euros per month and can easily be reorganized on the basis of their needs. The first month is free, allowing a thorough test before deciding whether to Hotelpedia can do it on her own.

Among other things, we know that is working on a new version entirely in the cloud, which will also have your own booking engine and channel manager, without additional costs.

Microrecipes

With new technology there is always more need of a software for recipes to share information on the go, especially in the catering sector. The chefs need software kitchen in cloud and mobile, to consult and to continuously update their own recipes and share them with their sparse structures in the world

that's needed, however, is not only the mere management of the recipes, because the more complex the procurement of raw materials, expense reporting, and cost for each recipe and the ability to keep under observation every single stream of processing. Only in this way, a galley is capable of working at the level of “stellar” (among its customers, the group includes the Don Alfonso 1890 is a consulting & distribution, michelin-starred chef who runs with Microrecipes – in addition to the Italian headquarters – the headquarters of Macao, New Zealand, saint Louis and Toronto), raising considerably the level and bringing professional management to “the cloud”.

Also in this case, it starts from just 30 euros per month, with the availability of the app for Android and iOS, to be able to create shopping lists, menus, recipes, and any other aspect related to the work of the team in the kitchen.

The solution is good also for a personal chef, and who provides consultancy services for restaurants and allows you to create sub accounts with sharing recipes divided for our customers.

Microdelivery

How to handle a customer? That is waiting in a queue, or at home, it is necessary to put them at ease so that the experience can be as serene, safe and fast as possible. For this, there is Microdelivery :

With Microdelivery in a single app, you can manage home deliveries, take away, reservations at the table where the customer that upon arrival must simply shoot over a qr code to know which table to sit, the orders that are handled directly with the app, menu digital, the outdoor queues to manage the inputs, e-commerce for all the activities related to food, such as pizzerias, restaurants, bars etc. in fact, in our application for any business looking to sell online or mobile with an easy to use app that speeds up all the activities.

That the order arrives from a user to the table using the QR-Code, which comes from a user's home, or being carried out on the site, or even that is related to a user in the queue, little changes: everything can be managed centrally to ensure a flow as fluid as possible if the order should become flat or package ready for delivery. And because this solution is dedicated especially to the small restaurants of the district (small restaurants or pizzerias), this means being able to have their own app and their own digital solution at minimal cost. With so much choice on investment: a fixed monthly fee or a percentage of turnover, in order to better calibrate the Microdelivery according to their needs.

Microdelivery also allows the management of orders in the dining room and reservations on the site, being able to do less of systems are very expensive as The Fork for reservations or Deliveroo for deliveries.

Macrosoluzioni for micro-businesses

In the world of micro-enterprise Italian there is an immense wealth, that alone is worth a large part of national GDP: this has always been so much a defect (micro-enterprise effort, in fact, to invest in innovation) as a virtue (the micro-enterprise adapts, reacts, knows how to deal with the changes) all Italian. To give life to this kind of companies is born, and a suite of low-cost solutions and easy-to-adoption , such that you can take advantage of the common issues of one segment to provide common solutions and standardized. By doing so, you can go back to betting on the distinguishing peculiarities of each individual company, knowing that with just a few euros per month you have in hand the digital tool with which to better respond to the demands of the job and the relationship with the customer.

the Solutions of this type are the humus, the ideal that you are cultivating that vertical rise of digitization that SMES are experiencing in this phase. If behind the inertia of the recent past, there was a resistance to experiment with new solutions, behind the resourcefulness of today, there are the good results obtained by those who have tried on the pulse of the needs.

Only those who are suitable is to undergo the hardship of an economic situation is in rapid evolution. The cloud is now able to provide all that is needed in almost every situation with just a smartphone and an internet connection and you can reach levels of performance such as to give a multiplier where suddenly everything has become more complex.

And this can make all the difference in the world.

For more information you can visit the official web site of Micropedia