NCR Silver named VIP Sponsor of inaugural KSU SBDC Restaurant Expo

KENNESAW, Ga. - Jan. 13, 2015 - PRLog -- The Kennesaw State University Small Business Development Center (KSU SBDC) announced that NCR Silver is the VIP Sponsor of the KSU SBDC Restaurant Expo: Serving Up the Business Side of Owning and Operating a Restaurant (http://sbdc.kennesaw.edu/KSUSBDCRestaurantExpo.htm) held on Monday, February 23, 2015 from 8am – 3:30pm at the KSU Center, 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA. NCR Silver is a mobile point-of-sale system for small businesses such as retail shops, cafes, service providers and food trucks.

“We are very pleased to have NCR Silver as our VIP Sponsor, helping support our mission to grow Georgia businesses. According to the Georgia Restaurant Association, every $1 spent in Georgia restaurants generates an additional $1.12 in sales for the state’s economy. We appreciate NCR Silver’s sponsorship as it enable us to bring continuing education to restaurant owners and managers to aid growth in the restaurant industry,” explains Drew Tonsmeire, Area Director of the KSU SBDC.

The KSU SBDC full day Restaurant Expo will be held on Monday, February 23, 2015 from 8am – 3:30pm at the KSU Center and will include 20+ breakout sessions, exhibitors from all sectors of the restaurant business, breakfast, lunch and all materials.

According to Tonsmeire, “the KSU SBDC Restaurant Expo provides education for restaurant owners and managers on key issues facing the food service industry.  We are bringing in attorneys, accountants, marketing professionals and other industry experts to teach breakout sessions on topics like labor law, accounting, insurance, financial feasibility, financing options, marketing tech tools, and data security to name a few.”

Breakout Sessions include:

·   Show Me the Money: What Restaurants Need to Know About Paying Employees - Eric Magnus, labor attorney, Jackson Lewis

·   Fight for 15, “Quickie” Elections and Protected Concerted Activity:  Why Labor Unions and the National Labor Relations Act Matter in Your Workplace - Jon Spitz, attorney, Jackson Lewis

·   Information Protection in the Food Service Industry – Dr. Herbert Mattford, Associate Director of the Coles Center for Information Security Education, Kennesaw State University

·   Identifying the best leaders for your business – Joe Kelly, Director of Recruiting and Steve Gibson, Principal Recruiting Partner, TalentServed.

·   Digital Marketing Relevancy for Restaurants – Toby Bloomberg, President Bloomberg Marketing and Co-founder Diva Foodies

·    R.A.S.S - Responsible Alcohol Sales and Serving - Michelle Stumpe, Partner, Taylor English Duma, LLP

·    Approved! How to Get a Business Loan for Your Restaurant and Commercial Real Estate – Antonio Barrios, KSU SBDC Business Consultant

·    Rules of Thumb for Restaurants: Evaluating financial feasibility and operational performance - Andy Fried, KSU SBDC business consultant and CPA

·   How to Stay Off the IRS’s Radar and Other Accounting Tricks of the Trade - Andrew Poulos, Poulos Accounting and Consulting

·   Bracingforour Next Wage andHourClaim: How to Properly Manage Employees - Eric Magnus and Evan Rosen, Jackson Lewis

·   Emerging Marketing Technologies and Strategies That Fill Seats - April and Scott Wright, 524 Creative

·   PCI 3.0 and Upcoming Mandatory EMV regulations – Eduardo Cortez, Regional Sales Manager, WorldPay

More on KSU SBDC Restaurant Expo:

A full day expo, all about the business side of owning and operating a restaurant includes keynote speaker entrepreneur Michael Coles, co-founder of the nationally successful Great American Cookie Company, exhibitors from all sectors of the restaurant business, samples from specialty alcoholic beverage exhibitors (must be 21 or over), 20+ breakout session taught by labor attorneys, accountants, marketing professionals and other industry experts.

http://sbdc.kennesaw.edu/KSUSBDCRestaurantExpo.htm

Date:  Monday, February 23, 2015 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Location:  KSU Center, 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA  30144

Who should attend:  Anyone in food service or related industry.

Sponsored by:  NCR Silver (http://www.ncrsilver.com/), Gas South, Retail Control Solutions.

Georgia Restaurant Association and Restaurant Informer Magazine

Cost: Only $99 for a full day of breakout sessions, keynote, breakfast, lunch and all materials!

Early Bird Special: Register by Monday, February 2, 2015 for just $75!

A portion of the attendee fees go to the Kennesaw State University Institute for Culinary Sustainability!

For more information, contact Carole Arnold at carnol27@kennesaw.edu or 470.578.6450.