Bill Roland
Founding partner
- Restaurant operations
- Software development
- POS systems
- Restaurant analytics
- Operational efficiency
- Catering management
- Restaurant technology
Bill Roland is a lifelong restaurant owner and vital driving force behind Katalyst’s success. With extensive restaurant industry experience, his insights shaped the platform’s development. He previously managed over 200 KPIs manually for his multi-million-dollar restaurants. Drawing from his software background and deep operational understanding, Bill spearheaded Katalyst’s development, using his own restaurants as testing grounds. His passion for efficiency and innovation created a cutting-edge POS system that simplifies restaurant management and empowers businesses to thrive.
Articles by Bill
How reporting and analytics can transform your restaurant business: a data-driven approach
Why reporting and analytics — not gut instincts — drive winning decisions in today’s restaurant business: KPIs to track, data to collect, and how to put it to work.
Restaurant intelligence: the gateway to restaurant analytics
Level 2 of restaurant intelligence — descriptive analytics. How looking back at sales, customers, operations, and finances sets the foundation for everything else.
Restaurant intelligence vs. restaurant analytics: elevate your restaurant’s data game
Restaurant intelligence (RI) describes what happened. Restaurant analytics (RA) predicts and prescribes what to do next. The five-level framework, explained.
Restaurant intelligence and analytics defined: basic reporting
Level 1 of restaurant intelligence — basic POS reporting. The foundation that turns raw data into clear, comparable insights about past performance.
Menu engineering in today’s environment
How to engineer a restaurant menu that captures customer interest and maximises efficiency — using market insight, the cash cow / star matrix, and Katalyst’s POS data.
Elevating data quality and tracking with native integrated systems
Why native integrated systems — not bolted-together SaaS stacks — produce the data quality, tracking, and security restaurants need to make confident decisions.