It's a typical Thursday night and the joint is half full. You just sent one of your servers home early and the chef and his staff are having a hard time getting a good rhythm. You wish a few more patrons would materialize. You wonder how to get the place hopping?

The answer is simple - trade your tables. Now the parking lot is full - the sign of a successful restaurant, your servers are raking in more tips and your kitchen staff is cranking out the food. To your surprise, your cash business starts going up because your trade customers are bringing along their friends and the word is spreading about your great food and service.

Trading your tables fills them up, but now there are a bunch of trade dollars to be spent. Not to worry. You're going to spend your trade dollars right back into your business on carpet cleaning, pest control, plumbing services, menu printing, flyer distribution, glass replacement, kitchen vent hood cleaning, etc., etc, etc. All that cash that you would have spent on these services drops straight to your bottom line and into your pocket! Some enterprising restaurateurs use their trade dollars to buy souvenir T-shirts, converting their trade dollars back into cash! You can even play the hero and use your trade dollars to spiff your staff!

How do you get paid by ATE members? We have it all worked out. We use certificates called "scrip" which we print in denominations of $5, $10, and $20 dollars and can be used at any of our member restaurants. Trading is made easy for the restaurant owner because scrip is treated just like cash, except no change is given. Members purchase the scrip from our office, they spend it at your restaurant, and they leave sales tax and gratuity in cash. Then periodically you return the scrip to our office, so proper credit can be given to your account. Your trade dollars can then be used for all sorts of things for your restaurant for your employees and for YOU! It's so simple and painless how could you afford not to join?