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- Starting Price$29.00/month
- DeploymentInstalled - Windows
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- Cibo
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- India
About Cibo App
Cibo App, all in one restaurant management platform, providing complete operations solution to any hospitality venue.
Cibo App Features
- Food Costing
- Inventory Management
- Kitchen Management
- Menu Management
- Payroll Management
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Reservations Management
- Sales Tracking
- Table Management
- Wait List Management
- Waitstaff Management
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Jun 29, 2017
Tony T.
Restuarant Owner
Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Source: Capterra
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Cons: After trying this product for 1 year it just got too difficult.
1/ The original sales agreement stated the system can operate even with WiFi down...that was the first lie!
2/ If you have problems with the system and you need support you can expect to wait 3 days for answers. This means the product you are relying on for your business (and paying good money for) can end up leaving you stranded without any system for days.
After too much BS I wanted to unsubscribe. They do not have an option to "stop" subscription. Even after sending mails to all available contacts to stop billing they did not stop billing.
I have now had to contact VISA card to deal with them and try to claim my money back.
I cannot stress enough how disappointing and unprofessional Cibo App. Avoid paying for this product at all costs!
Overall: This was my 1st POS experience. It was a good learning curve on how to implement data etc, learn how to control and use systems similar. Initially it was free which made it beneficial. Once I became reliant on itSince the 70s, the world has experienced soaring growth in its energy demands, mainly fed by fossil fuels and centralized power generation. The future, however, should and seems to be expected as different. Transformations of any kind do not appear from a vacuum; especially when we speak about energy transformation and even more specifically in such a crucial sector like that of Energy.
Transformation is shaped by a much broader and fundamental shift in terms of prosperity, progress, politics, and the environment. We see signs of that shift even in the terminology, shifting from ‘green’ to ‘smart and sustainable’. We call this wider and fundamental shift in context ‘The Great Transition’. One of the cornerstones of this huge transition is ‘decarbonisation’. This ongoing transformation does not only concern and apply the energy sector, or a switch from one fuel source to another, or merely the technological leap. It is much broader and reflects a shift, a transformation, in terms of values and also the way we understand the world around us nowadays.
As mentioned, we observe a gradual breakaway from the older core values of security, reliability, and robustness which existing energy systems were built on, to new values of sustainability, flexibility, and affordability, enabled by a completely new way of producing, delivering, and consuming energy. This does not necessarily mean that the older frame of values will become obsolete or irrelevant anytime soon, but the centre of weight is definitely being rebalanced.
The notion
The notion of decarbonisation translates in a few words as the reduction of carbon inputs to socioeconomic metabolism or of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions such as CO2 or CH4. Indicators such as GHG emissions per unit of technical energy, are widely used in climate-related discourses.
They are often expressed as kilogram CO2 equivalent per year. Different GHGs are converted into CO2 equivalents according to their respective global warming potentials. Partial decarbonisation can be achieved by increasing the share of low-GHG fuels such as hydropower or solar in total energy supply. In theory, it is possible to reduce net carbon emissions to zero or even achieve net negative emissions if technologies such as bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration are used on a large scale.
However, on the input side, socioeconomic metabolism cannot be entirely decarbonised because biomass is indispensable for socioeconomic metabolism, at least as food and feed, and the carbon content of dry matter biomass amounts to 45–50%. Therefore, we are facing a dual challenge: that of the emissions coming from the energy sector but also other sectors like agriculture (dairy, meat etc.)
The process
Lowering industrial GHG emissions is a very realistic task, but not an easy one. A report coming from the leader in the Consulting world, McKinsey, is revealing. The report called ‘Decarbonization of industrial sectors: The next frontier’, finds that elements like ammonia, cement, ethylene, and steel companies can reduce their carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions to almost zero with energy-efficiency improvements, the electric production of heat, the use of hydrogen and biomass as feedstock or fuel, and carbon capture.
Discussion about transitions and transformation is never easy and the financial aspect always frames the discussion; cash is King Afterall. The decarbonisation of the above-mentioned sectors would cost between USD 11 trillion and USD 21 trillion all the way until 2050 and will require accelerating the extension and deployment of renewable-energy capabilities, to provide four to nine times as much clean power as industry would need in the absence of any effort to reduce emissions.
Despite the challenges described above, companies in the four focus sectors could bring their CO2 emissions close to zero with a combination of approaches. The most promising are:
- Energy-efficiency improvements;
- The electrification of heat;
- The use of hydrogen made with zero-carbon electricity as a feedstock or fuel;
- The use of biomass as a feedstock or fuel;
- And carbon capture and storage (CCS) or usage (CCU).
The optimum mix of decarbonisation options would be apparently variable and different combinations could be used to address the needs and potential specificities. The same principle could apply even within the same sector, because local factors determine which ones are most practical or economical. Decision makers must evaluate their options on a site-specific basis by closely examining these factors.
The most important factors are the availability and cost of low-carbon energy sources—specifically, zero-carbon renewable electricity and sustainably produced biomass. Access to storage capacity for captured CO2, along with public and regulatory support for carbon storage, will affect the possibility of implementing CCS. The regional-growth outlook for the four focus sectors matters, too, because certain decarbonisation options are cost effective for existing (brownfield) industrial facilities while others are more economical for newly built (greenfield) facilities.
Industrial companies must prepare for decarbonisation by conducting a detailed review of all their capacities, resources, facilities and by looking at the availability of low-cost electricity, hydrogen, biomass, and carbon-storage capacity. This process should have a primary goal of hitting maximum efficiency. Achieving the dual transformation of the energy and industrial sectors will require coordinated efforts across the economy. Other key players and stakeholders should be brought into the mix for finding opportunities for collaboration: co-investing in a shared carbon-storage infrastructure, for example, or supporting research and development for promising decarbonisation technologies. The public sector would be a great example, due to its nature and of course, bringing its regulatory capacity into the game.
Governments can develop road maps for industrial decarbonisation on the local and regional levels to create a more certain outlook for industrial and power companies and unlock investments with flexible and longer payback times. Governments can also adjust regulations and incentives to support decarbonisation—for example, encouraging investment in renewable-generation capacity by altering the financial requirements on utilities and other companies involved in generating and distributing energy. Energy leaders from around the world including national and regional policymakers have a critical role to play in driving forward the development of a coordinated Action Plan to better realize opportunities for aligning decarbonisation of energy supply with existing infrastructure that may need to be appropriately dealt with. In Europe, besides national governments, European policymakers will have a key role for energy infrastructure plan to ensure coherence for all the countries.
All in all, industrial companies can drastically lower their carbon emissions, but only by collaborating with other stakeholders and the public sector. Joint planning and timely action can accelerate the development of low-carbon technologies for industry and help to coordinate the dual transformation of the energy and industrial sectors. For industrial companies and other organizations, the time to begin the transition is now.
Decarbonisation: Going Deeper
One of the apparent conclusions, deeply connected with the notion of maximum efficiency, is that there can be no waste of resources. This clearly indicates the direction of reusing or repurposing the already existing infrastructure. The transition will heavily depend on infrastructure that is adaptable, reliable and affordable. Going further, we need to consider that the existing energy infrastructure has