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This week we are featuring Chicago area restaurant, Francesca’s Amici.   Francesca’s Amici offers a contemporary, casually sophisticated trattoria ambiance in the downtown of Elmhurst, Illinois. Who They Are: Francesca’s Amici is part of the family of Francescas restaurants.  Their menu offers the zesty, earthy cuisine of Rome and the surrounding areas of Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio. ... Read more

Who doesn’t love a party? Good food, fun drinks and friends. Even off site meetings can be fun. When you go to a good event or banquet you know it. You can tell that the host paid attention to the details and the restaurant or event venue executed well. What most people don’t realize is ... Read more

Here is some out of the box (sorry for the cliche) thinking. Why not make your private dining rooms available to start-ups in your area during slow times (typically Sunday/Monday)? Start-ups are booming right now, especially web based start-ups like us. Most of these companies are meeting outside of the office (because they don’t have ... Read more

A banquet or private dining sales manager for a restaurant is tough. You are expected to generate event revenue but you are provided with little in the ways of tools to generate leads and bookings. Most event managers find themselves in the “catcher” position, waiting for leads to be pitch to you from phone calls ... Read more

The private dining and catering business in the last two years has evolved into a critical component of a restaurants revenue mix. The private dining business represents, on average, close to 30% of the overall revenue and is much more profitable then ala carte dining. Gone are the days of restaurateurs looking at the event ... Read more

Welcome to part 2 of the new release scheduled for release this January. In this post, I would like to introduce to you the new Guest Portal. With Tripleseat, once you create a Document (Proposal/Banquet Event Order/Contract..etc.) you are able to share it with your guests via a url or a PDF. With this release, ... Read more

With the new update scheduled to be released in January, we have updated how you select Accounts and Contacts when creating bookings. The current process for Accounts and Contacts allows you to add only the full name, e-mail address, address, and phone under a booking. To add additional information, like a second phone number, web ... Read more

Let the Discussion Begin. Discussions is a private and secure area within a Booking that lets you discuss event details or documents, such as Banquet Event Orders, Contracts and Proposals, with your prospects, customers, and staff. Now you can stop trying to collaborate solely over email and start having a discussion. Close deals faster Build ... Read more

Over the past 3 years, thousands of people across every imaginable style of venue have used Tripleseat to manage over $300 million in event bookings. In total, they’ve created over 500,000 leads, contacts and BEO/Documents. What started as a simple tool to manage events in 2008 has become one of the most popular web-based event ... Read more

This week we are featuring Boston restaurant,  L’Espalier, a sophisticated and modern restaurant that offers New England-French cuisine, with an emphasis on artisanal and New England ingredients. Who They Are: L’Espalier is often credited with being  the first independently owned restaurant to bring haute cuisine to Boston, and  doing so with a trailblazing commitment to using local, ... Read more