Dining Alliance vs Shift4 InCharge

Dining Alliance delivers CashBack savings to restaurant operators for free! Would you purchase better if you had 70,000+ Locations? Dining Alliance is a Group Purchasing Organization with over 20 years of expertise and $12 Billion in buying power. As a GPO, Dining Alliance’s mission is to make our member restaurants more profitable by offering access to benefits and purchasing power that would not otherwise be available to them. The Dining Alliance app makes managing your Dining Alliance account a breeze. You can sign up for Dining Alliance, input your distributor account numbers, check the status of your rebates, claim your rebate payments, register for free savings programs and view valuable insights about your account with ease. Dining Alliance delivers rebates on more than 165,000 line items from over 350 manufacturers, including top brands like Tyson, McCain, Conagra, Pepsi, Barilla, and more. After signing up, members simply order as they normally do and our technology automatically analyzes your invoices to identify items that are on our rebate program. Your CashBack earnings grow and you can collect that money on a quarterly basis. Dining Alliance members have the opportunity to take advantage of a wide variety of benefits including pricing contracts, savings programs, employee perk programs and discounts on everything from garbage bags to uniforms. Dining Alliance membership is 100% free and always will be. There are no order minimums, membership dues nor hidden fees. The Dining Alliance app provides easy access to our many Beyond Prime Programs, which offer a variety of ways to save money on all non-food aspects of your restaurant, including office supplies, pest control, recycling, credit card processing, DirecTV subscriptions, C02, and more. Sign up with One Touch in the app and add these valuable savings programs to your account.

Actionable insights at your fingertips. InCharge is a robust restaurant management platform that gives you a wide variety of real-time reporting and analytics to help you run your business. As a mobile companion to Shift4’s Lighthouse Business Manager, InCharge puts actionable insights at your fingertips so you can make smart, data-driven decisions anytime, anywhere. Features include: - Ability to view stats from multiple locations or hone in on a single restaurant - Syncs in real time with Harbortouch Bar & Restaurant (HBR), CirroTouch, and Duet POS systems - Quick login access with fingerprint and facial recognition options Whenever you enter the app, you’ll see a high-level overview of all your locations that includes a daily or weekly view of: - Total sales - Sales per ticket - Average ticket time - Open tickets - Labor percentage From there, you can drill down to get more details about any of these areas to quickly identify trends and resolve any issues. InCharge also includes labor management tools that allow you to view, assess, and manage your employees to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. - View staff member performance, including hours, sales, tips, ticket time, and more - Compare current labor percentages with the location’s trends - Identify staff currently working overtime