Disclosure Policy
OUR COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCYAt Restaurant Association, our goal is to provide restaurant owners, operators, and foodservice professionals with clear, accurate, and trustworthy content. This includes the educational guides, industry insights, product and service evaluations, and recommendations we publish. We want you to understand how we work and how our content is supported, including how partnerships may influence our resources. This disclosure policy explains how we handle relationships with partners and sponsors, how we use affiliate links, and what that means for you as a reader.
How We Support Our Work
To continue delivering high-quality content, Restaurant Association participates in partnership and affiliate programs. These partnerships allow us to offer free educational content, tools, and insights while covering the cost of research and editorial production.
When you use links from our site to purchase a product or service, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This support helps fund our ongoing work and allows us to keep content accessible for restaurant professionals.
We choose our partners carefully and only work with companies and products that meet our standards for value and relevance to the restaurant industry.
What Affiliate Links Mean
Affiliate links, sometimes called tracking links, are standard web links embedded with a unique identifier. That identifier lets a partner company recognize that a visit, sign-up, or purchase came from the Restaurant Association.
If you click through one of these links and complete a purchase, the partner may pay us a small commission. This never changes your price, your contract terms, or what you receive from the product or service.
We rely on this model because it lets us stay independent of paywalls while still investing in the research behind our restaurant technology reviews and restaurant growth strategies. Wherever affiliate links appear, we aim to disclose them clearly and place that disclosure where readers will actually see it.
How We Select Partnerships
The Restaurant Association is deliberate about who we work with. We don't accept every partnership offer that comes our way, and a commission alone has never earned a product a place in our recommendations.
Real-World Performance
We evaluate each product against the day-to-day demands of restaurant operations.
Operator Feedback
We weigh input from working restaurant professionals and verified users, not just vendor-supplied case studies.
Track Record of Innovation
We favor partners who continue investing in their products and respond to where the foodservice industry is heading.
Honesty in Reviews and Recommendations
Our editorial team and our partnerships team operate separately, by design. The people who write our restaurant management guides and product comparisons aren't compensated based on which partners we work with, and they're never pressured to favor one vendor over another.
Every recommendation reflects our own research and conversations with people working inside restaurants, not the size of a commission.
Privacy and Data Use
When you click an affiliate link on our site, limited technical information, enough to attribute the referral, may be shared with that partner. We don't sell your personal data, and we don't use affiliate tracking to build marketing profiles beyond what's needed to credit a sale.
We hold our partners to the same privacy standards we hold ourselves to.
For full details on what we collect and how it's handled, please review our Privacy Policy.
