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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Spoonfed

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ABritish company Spoonfed (formerly Aptus) offers their flagship catering software to medium-sized catering companies and restaurant chains as a comprehensive time management solution for events and catering services.N/A

    Vend

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVend is a cloud-based point-of-sale and retail management platform. The vendor says it’s used by retailers of all types and sizes to create the ultimate customer experience and manage sales, inventory, customers and more. Vend also works offline and it automatically resyncs the user’s sales once they are back up online. The vendor offers a free 30-day trial and no credit card is required.N/A
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    SpoonfedVend
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SpoonfedVend
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Square POS
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SpoonfedVend
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
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    Support Rating
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    SpoonfedVend
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Spoonfed
    Spoonfed is well suited for smaller catering teams, it offers the ability to have a large changing menu and for guests to place orders themselves. If you are doing catering business with repeat customers it's quite useful [as] you can repeat orders and save all of the guest's info in the database. I would not recommend it if it does not integrate into your point of sale as you will need to have an entirely different system for payments and sales because of this.
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    Vend
    Vend was great fit for this dry cleaner/laundry that had high traffic volume with customers stopping in before and after work. Things need to be done quickly.
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    Pros
    Spoonfed
    • Ability to have robust and changing menu options.
    • Authorizing payments and payment links sent via email.
    • Customer profiles.
    • Ability to save credit card numbers for repeat guests.
    • Guests can place orders themselves.
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    Vend
    • Retail sales
    • Inventory management
    • Sales and promotions
    • Reporting
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    Cons
    Spoonfed
    • It's based out of England - so users in the USA sometimes run into unfamiliar verbiage or set up because of this, plus support team is in England.
    • Customer database set up isn't set up intuitively.
    • Glitches in functionality - sometimes is down/not working.
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    Vend
    • It would be nice to have alternate ways to adjust prices
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    Support Rating
    Spoonfed
    No answers on this topic
    Vend
    Not much support needed but they were fast and helpful when it was.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Spoonfed
    This is the only catering software that we have used. We were doing all of this in house beforehand.
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    Vend
    Vend is much more capable than Square POS for product management and inventory control. ShopKeep is fairly similar to Vend but is a more closed ecosystem with fewer third-party integrations and less frequent updates.
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    Return on Investment
    Spoonfed
    • Not always intuitive for users in USA.
    • If you are able to set up the guests placing orders themselves, big ROI and ability to have a leaner catering team.
    • Calendar feature allows you to see orders at multi units / enterprise level.
    • Production sheets allow for commissary to track production for needs across multi units.
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    Vend
    • Correct inventory levels has been a game-changer. We use to oversell because of inconsistencies between POS and e-commerce sales.
    • The built-in loyalty program has been very useful and was much more appealing to customers than we originally predicted.
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