How Your Catering Company Can Benefit from GPS Fleet Tracking

28 Mar 2016

Caterers have many balls in the air at any given time. There is a lot to juggle between coordinating the receiving of food orders, the delivery of customer orders, and the management of a full staff of employees servicing events in multiple locations around your town.

GPS fleet tracking can help you with all those things and more. These are just a few ways your catering company can benefit from GPS fleet tracking.

Automate Your Business

GPS fleet tracking systems allow you to customize the system to meet the needs of your business. You can use a tablet device with GPS fleet tracking to create invoices, record expenses, create a schedule of catering events, and take notes about customers and their events. You can also keep up with liability waivers and damage reports. That’s just the beginning. You can also record mileage, gas, labor, and any other details you need to know to automate your business creating less paperwork for you.

Manage Your Expenses

Tracking costs is great. It allows you to see where money is being spent and, potentially, where it is being wasted. GPS tracking automatically helps by reducing fuel consumption and keeping your drivers on their toes and on the right path. This reduces wasted labor and wasted fuel. It also means that when food and other things go missing, you have a good idea of when and where that happened so that you can take appropriate action.

Provide more Timely Deliveries

Timely arrivals are critical in the catering industry. At the same time, traffic happens. GPS fleet tracking provides live traffic updates so that your drivers can avoid the worst traffic jams in order to arrive at the target destination on time. Little things like this make a big difference for customers who are frantic over getting every last detail right for their events.

Assist with Scheduling Vehicle Maintenance

Another great way GPS fleet tracking can help your catering company save big money is by scheduling and recording routine vehicle maintenance. It may not seem like a big deal at first, but this simple step can help extend the life of your catering trucks while also detecting signs of mechanical problems before they become outright mechanical failures that can result in a breakdown at the worst possible moment.

Record Arrivals and Departures

Finally, fleet tracking allows you to monitor and record your drivers to ensure they’ve arrived at their destinations on time and when they’ve departed after an event. This helps you justify billing if disputes should arise as well as payroll if someone forgets to sign in or out after an event.

These are just a few ways GPS fleet tracking can help your catering company. Once you begin to experience the benefits for yourself, you’re sure to wonder how you ever got along without it.

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George Karonis

About George Karonis

George Karonis is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of LiveViewGPS Inc., a company he established in 2008 with the vision of making real-time GPS tracking more reliable, affordable, and accessible for businesses of all sizes. Over the past two decades, he has built a reputation as an innovator in GPS tracking, fleet management, asset monitoring, and Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PTToC) communications. Under George's leadership, LiveViewGPS has grown into a nationally recognized provider of GPS tracking solutions, serving businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, law enforcement organizations, and public works departments throughout the United States. The company's technology helps organizations improve operational efficiency, protect valuable assets, increase driver safety, and reduce operating costs through real-time location intelligence. Before founding LiveViewGPS, George developed a background in security, surveillance, and emerging location technologies. His passion for innovation and practical problem solving has driven the development of products that combine dependable hardware with easy-to-use cloud software, giving customers actionable information when it matters most. In 2018, George expanded into nationwide Push-to-Talk over Cellular communications by launching PeakPTT, providing businesses with rugged, instant communication solutions that operate over LTE and Wi-Fi networks. His focus has remained the same throughout his career: delivering dependable technology backed by exceptional customer service and long-term customer relationships. George regularly writes about GPS tracking, fleet management, asset protection, business technology, and communication systems. Through this blog, he shares industry insights, practical advice, and emerging trends to help organizations make informed decisions about tracking technology and connected operations.

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