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Insights, tips, and updates for restaurants and cafes in the Philippines.

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Best QR Ordering System for Food Businesses: What to Look For

The best QR ordering system helps food businesses make ordering easier for customers and more manageable for their team. Here’s what to look for before choosing one.

June 22, 20265 min
Top-down flatlay on a cafe table of an iced latte, ingredient jars, a calculator, and handwritten costing notes in matcha green and cream scrapbook style
Business Tips

Recipe Costing for PH Cafes: Know Your True Food Cost

Most PH cafe owners price by gut feel and lose money on their bestsellers. Learn how to compute true food cost per dish, find your gross margin per menu item, and use sales data to fix the leaks.

June 17, 20265 min
Top-down cafe table flatlay of a tablet showing a live monthly customers meter beside an iced matcha drink and a stack of order tickets, in scrapbook doodle style.
Business Tips

No More Daily Order Limits: Take Orders All Day Long

Your QR ordering no longer stops mid-rush. Nom404 removes the hard daily order ceiling, so your cafe keeps taking orders all day, every day, with one simple all-in monthly number that resets on the 1st.

June 17, 20264 min
A phone scanning a QR code on a wooden cafe table beside an iced latte, in a cute scrapbook poster style with handwritten doodle notes about ordering.
Business Tips

How to Set Up QR Code Ordering for Your Cafe in the Philippines

A practical, step-by-step guide for PH cafe and restaurant owners on launching QR code ordering — from setting up your menu to placing table QR codes and verifying GCash payments. No hardware, no lock-in.

June 10, 20265 min
A customer's phone scanning a QR code on a wooden cafe counter to pay for coffee, surrounded by scrapbook doodles of GCash, Maya, and QRPH payment icons
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GCash, Maya, or QRPH: Picking Payment Methods for Your Cafe

GCash, Maya, QRPH, or cash? A practical guide for Philippine cafe owners on choosing the right payment methods, how each one works at the counter, and how to verify payments without slowing the line.

June 10, 20265 min
A smartphone scanning a QR code on a wooden cafe table next to an iced milk tea, with handwritten doodle notes about skipping the line and ordering faster.
Business Tips

Cut Counter Queues: Scan-to-Order Menus for Rush Hours

Long counter lines during the lunch rush cost you sales and goodwill. Here's how a scan-to-order menu lets diners browse, customize, and pay from their phones, so your team can focus on making great food and drinks faster.

June 10, 20264 min