Restaurant POS Articles

Staffing a restaurant for service and efficiency is a challenge: You don’t want teenagers twiddling their thumbs in the back when things are slow at the front counter. But when the rush hits, you need all hands on deck.

After much thought and consideration, you’re ready to take the plunge and set up online ordering for your restaurant. Whether you want to add an online ordering menu to an existing Web site, or develop a Web site from the ground up, you need to select a quality restaurant online ordering provider.

With food costs on the rise, the most successful restaurant operators take great care to manage inventory and limit waste. Inventory is cash on the shelves, and waste, over-stocking, theft, and spoilage immediately impact a restaurant’s bottom line—often to the tune of thousands of dollars per year.

Most SpeedLine users find that the POS has the biggest initial impact on their business results in the areas of cash control, loss prevention, labor cost management, customer service, and administrative efficiency.

Today's restaurant POS systems are capable of much more than ringing up sales. POS system reports can give you insight into your business while reducing paperwork.

A list of things you'll want to take into consideration when preparing to use online ordering with your restaurant POS system.

We came up with this list of success factors after polling several online ordering companies. See if online ordering would be a good fit for your restaurant.

With costs declining dramatically, operators are increasingly eyeing call centers as a way to maximize their business. Technology providers offer options ranging from traditional call center set ups, to automated solutions, to network of home-based agents.

Take cost control at your restaurant to the next level by identifying waste, theft or over-portioning with POS inventory software.

Want to spend your advertising dollars wisely? In this article, Rena Walsh Cohen gives you 7 tips on how to create attractive offers and then track them with your POS in order to maximize your ROI.