Speedo's Cafe, Sydney
Beachside Café · North Bondi, NSW
Thirty years. That’s how long Speedo’s Cafe has held its spot at North Bondi, one of Sydney’s most competitive and high-footfall hospitality strips. While countless venues have come and gone around it, Speedo’s has endured by doing one thing consistently well: keeping service sharp, even when it’s slammed.
Owner Annie Karem knows exactly what kind of operation she’s running.
Running a beachside café means every second of service counts. Beachside cafés like Speedo’s face some of the most demanding service conditions in Australian hospitality: surging weekend crowds, a high proportion of walk-in traffic, mixed indoor and outdoor covers, and a constant rotation of casual staff. Australia’s hospitality sector recorded a staff turnover rate of 38.7% in 2024, the highest of any industry, meaning venues are perpetually onboarding new team members while maintaining the same standard of service for loyal regulars. In that environment, the right café POS system isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s an operational necessity.
The Problem with the Old System
For a venue built on speed, friction at the point of sale is the enemy. Speedo's previous restaurant POS software created two specific pain points that grew harder to ignore over time: bill splitting was unnecessarily complicated, and training new staff on the system took too long.
A slow bill split is a slow table turn. In hospitality, that's revenue walking out the door. And in a sector where a new hire might be running tables within days of starting, a non-intuitive hospitality POS adds real cost to every onboarding cycle.
Why Tabit
When Annie evaluated switching to a new café POS system in Sydney, the decision came into focus quickly. It wasn't about flashy features, it was about fit.
"Our main reason was finding factual information. It's really better. It just suited our business for all our needs and wants."
Access to reliable, real-time data gives operators like Annie the visibility to make confident decisions, whether that's staffing for a busy weekend, identifying which menu items are driving revenue, or understanding how the business is actually performing day-to-day. Thirty years of instinct, now backed by real data.
And then there was the feature that ultimately sealed it:
With Tabit’s tableside ordering and intuitive interface, the team could move faster and get new staff floor-ready in far less time, a critical advantage in Sydney’s competitive hospitality job market.
The Result
Two outcomes stood out immediately after switching to Tabit's hospitality POS software: the floor ran faster, and the team got up to speed quicker. For a North Bondi café where every minute of service counts, both matter enormously.
Speedo's has spent thirty years earning its place on one of Sydney's most iconic stretches of coastline.
Tabit is part of how the next thirty get even better.