Restaurant management, no matter the restaurant’s size, can wear you out. You plan the menu, keep track of the inventory and schedule the wait staff. With the amount of time it takes to manage the everyday jobs you have no time for advertising or launching promotional campaigns. If you already use a point of sale (POS) service, and still have no time, consider changing to a service that works to bring diners to your tables.
Your POS system works for you
POS systems have proven effective to improve services and increase business in:
- Fine dining restaurants
- Cafes
- Fast food restaurants
- Pizza delivery restaurants
- Diners
Throughout the restaurant industry, POS systems have streamlined reservation taking, menu planning, employee efficiency and a myriad of other services.
Bringing customers to you
You can create advertising campaigns and promotions to send customers via email or SMS. Send custom coupons for special events or promotions with discounts for loyal customers. Your menus will impress customers with easy to see and find dishes that change to reflect your own personality.
Customer experience improves with alerts if a table goes unattended for a preset time. Diners who request separate checks will find the process much faster. A POS system makes split or combined check calculating faster for everyone.
The efficiency of the dining room will improve with automated ticket and receipt printing from all the registers in the house. You can feel secure knowing your tickets and receipts will continue printing on an alternate printer if the main one stops working. The best POS can help plan for unexpected events.
In the kitchen
From the kitchen, track how long it takes diners to receive their food and know immediately if the wait staff or kitchen staff causes bottlenecks in your service.
Kitchen monitors or ticket printer systems give detailed, real-time descriptions of meal orders so cooks know exactly what customers order and have them cooking quickly. Communication between the kitchen and dining room improves with order modifications displayed or printed so everyone stays on track.
Easy to configure
You can keep track of the inventory in real-time. Track which dishes sell the best and graph the trends so you know which recipes sell.
You have the capability to change your menu remotely and pull up your complete inventory or food order from a pc or mobile device outside of your restaurant. In addition, you can program multiple dining room layouts and program changes to make room for large parties at a moment’s notice.
Any restaurant POS software system that fails to deliver the above is out of date and it is time to find one that gives you all the control you need over your restaurant.