New Florida Vaccine Mandates

New Florida Vaccine Mandates

Employers’ Vaccine Mandate Advisory

Florida businesses have just experienced more red tape and costs. Ensure you read and discuss the following information with your HR Directors, managers, and any decision-makers within your company.

This advisory is focused on employers within the State of Florida and how Florida State law may or may not impact the Federal mandates. Fortunately, the law office of Boy Agnew Potanovic Miller (BAPM) has published an advisory (Information re: OSHA ETS (mailchi.mp) on the upcoming OSHA ETS vaccine mandates for private employers with 100+ employees.

They have also provided links for employers to download templates to create the required policy by OSHA ETS. These templates are free of charge and can be downloaded for editing purposes. Unfortunately, most businesses don’t have the time or resources to keep updated on all the regulatory mandates happening. Thank you, BAPM, for your guidance.

Please take time to utilize this resource to implement policies that comply with the new guidelines. This is especially important considering that none of us really know what the US Supreme Court will rule once the case is heard on January 7th.

If you need help downloading any of the files, please don’t hesitate to call eGuarded, LLC, at 855-348-2736. They will be happy to assist you.

 

 

Is Managing Your Images on your POS this Easy?

Is Managing Your Images on your POS this Easy?

Is managing your POS system as easy as posting a picture on social media?  It Should be!

Imagine being able to upload an image of your daily specials or entrées as soon as they come out of your oven.  Uploading a photo to your menu is as simple as posting it to your Facebook page.  Wow your customers and entice them into your restaurant or store today.  The power of an image is incredible!

As a business owner or manager, can you edit and make modifications easily from wherever you are?

Imagine being able to make real-time changes to your menu, manage your staff, and monitor your sales from anywhere in the world. Whether you are at home or on vacation, the newer POS systems allow you to manage all of your operations in one place!

The newer POS systems are now state of the art, replacing the old legacy systems and improving your life as a restaurant or retail owner.

If your current POS system doesn’t have all these easy-to-use features, change and upgrade today!

Stay connected with Backup Internet

Stay connected with Backup Internet

What is your Backup Plan to Process Payments?

Connectivity to the internet has never been more essential to business operations. Especially when it comes to authorizing your credit cards or accepting payments. Our weather has never been more volatile: heatwaves, storms, floods, and rolling blackouts are a constant pressure on our connectivity.  Every business needs fast, reliable internet or cell connectivity to keep money flowing through their Point of Sale System or access their data. Having a safety net could be the difference between making a big sale or losing a client. Never miss an order or another transaction on your POS.

Streamline Service with a Fail-over Internet Device

Backup internet is an immediate solution! Your business will never miss a beat when your main internet provider is down for maintenance, bad weather, or any outage.   With options like a Wireless Failover System, the only way you will even realize the failover system has started working is an alert to your email or text. 

What is it, and How does it Work?

A wireless ISP gives your equipment a cellular internet connection (like your cell phone connection) with the reliability you have come to expect from your traditional ISP.  Automatically it detects an internet outage and connects your systems immediately.

Always Feel Secure

If an internet outage occurs, your POS devices are secured because they automatically switch to the wireless backup fail-over system. In addition, most of your customer information and company resources are stored online and remain active, so your customer is unaware of an issue. Whether it’s a database, POS System, or ATM, each holds crucial information for the day-to-day business to run smoothly and will continue with a backup internet system. 

Customer Satisfaction

By having a wireless failsafe installed, the customer never loses connectivity, and neither do you. Keep your customers happy and spare them the inconvenience of long wait lines or the frustration of not checking out quickly.  A wireless backup makes processing credit card transactions, terminal entries, and receipt printing continue without a problem. 

Choosing a Provider 

When choosing a backup provider, it should be fast, reliable, and instant. If you choose to downgrade for your backup internet, your business runs the risk of not making the seamless jump to your backup system defeating the purpose of a backup internet system in the first place. 

The final caution is to make sure you choose a PCI-compliant reseller selling and installing this equipment. Remember, customer information can be in-flight with some of the old legacy systems. Therefore, you always need to know who is touching your data!  and In addition, business owners should always be aware of where they are getting their devices processing customer and employee information. 

Never lose connectivity in your business. Instead, be prepared and invest in a backup fail-over system to keep your network and Point of Sale System or credit card terminal running and your customers happy during an outage. Then, call us, and we can help.

To Wait or Not to Wait

To Wait or Not to Wait

To Wait or Not to Wait – Why Yes!  With our POS Host Wait-list – It’s no longer a question!

Now more than ever your patron’s time is valuable.  As a business owner, you should know most popular eateries have decided to shun reservations.  This trend is due to persuasive technology, management tools, and customer engagement.

Your host and staff will be more efficient and now they can easily send free text messages to your guest’s mobile phones when their table is ready!  Voila, more efficient wait-listing and seat tables faster.  This same system notifies servers when someone has been seated. Talk about table turnaround!

Now you are in control and have the ability with the our Host Wait-list management system with integrated text messaging to remove all those bulky, costly, limited-range buzzers.  Not only will it keep track of your guests from arrival through their order by managing your wait-list using our directly-integrated system.  But it will also add your guests, send text messages to their mobile phone when their table is ready. All you staff does is simply drag and drop guests to their designated table.  They can even add previously ordered menu items to new tickets.  Contact us to learn more 866-207-3298.

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Don’t lose your stored photos, backups or files!

Don’t lose your stored photos, backups or files!

Are your Business Photos in Jeopardy?

Lots of Google users have taken advantage of the free online storage space for photos, backups, and easy sharing over the years. If you or your business has as well, be sure to log into your account regularly. Personal or Business can be catastrophic.

Google recently announced that it will be removing files that are not viewed within a certain amount of time. That may include automated backups you set up and forget some time ago.

To prevent losing your family or business assets, be sure to log in to all your Google accounts (which don’t always end with @gmail.com) and go into your Google Mail, Google Drive, and Google Photo apps individually. Then set a calendar reminder to do this every six months.

For Google’s announcement on this change in policy, go to:
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/9312312?hl=en

Grant for restaurants and other food services who suffered pandemic losses

Grant for restaurants and other food services who suffered pandemic losses

If your food service business (any business where the onsite sale of food or drink comprised 33% or more of gross receipts) suffered losses due to the pandemic, there is a grant you should be looking into.

The Restaurant Revitalization Fund from the SBA is focusing on businesses with 20 or fewer locations, and will give initial preference to businesses owned or controlled by women, veterans, or socially/economically disadvantaged individuals.

The grant is not yet accepting applications, but you can download it now in order to collect all your data and be ready to enter as soon as it opens.

Check out who qualifies, what information will be requested, and sign up to be notified when applications are being accepted at:

https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/restaurant-revitalization-fund#section-header-8