All Blog Posts Tagged 'system' (10)

Your restaurant point-of-sale system is one of the keys to your smooth running operation - helping to keep the orders flowing correctly and the cash coming in.  But are you overlooking some of the ways your POS Software could help you boost your restaurant's bottom line?   Here's 5 common features that many restaurant owners neglect - but that can make a real impact on your profit! 

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Restaurant Service Consulting, by definition, is a review or evaluation of the restaurant dining room service system. This means, "how the dining room runs" which includes all of the service tools provided (or to be provided) by the management.

These tools include readable floor diagrams, seating coordination, menu descriptions, properly done staff schedules, sidework postings and a whole host of other things.

 

There are two main aspects to the Restaurant Service Consulting…

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Independant operating restaurants are constantly surprising me with their business operations. I would be interested in doing a research profile on how many of my customers actually do a monthly inventory (weekly?), track their labor costs related to sales (revenue/labour hour), or even understand their margins item to item.



This is a common theme among restaurant dreamers.



"I know how to cook & I have alot of friends & my husband can operate the foh because he…

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Effective October 2009, Visa will implement a new fee called the Misuse of Authorization System Fee. In light of this new fee, we are advising F&B establishments (F&B) to evaluate their current procedures for running a tab.



Visa's Misuse of Authorization System Fee simply stated will be charged when a merchant obtains an approval code and doesn't use it. Visa will assess a $0.045 per occurrence.



With this new fee, F&B should research how their POS systems… Continue

SMS (short message service) pager system use cell phone rather than a radio pager to notify the guest when thier table is ready. Cell phones use short message service or 160 character bursts of information over the network or through email services. The advantage of SMS messaging is it transmits more consistantly… Continue

Systems have been put in place at restaurants to make their everyday operations run smoothly, ones they often wondered what they ever did without. Systems that can make and track reservations, such as Open Table, have transformed the way a restaurant can run its business.



There is another piece of technology hitting restaurants promising to make their everyday operations more efficient while offering benefits such as good community relations, professionalism, and a tracking service… Continue

By David Scott Peters



I was recently interviewed as a restaurant expert about how to keep restaurant employees from riding the clock and robbing restaurant owners of precious labor dollars. It struck me as great information for FohBoh as well.



In some restaurants, there are employees who have more than one job code, or job role. Employees may try to take advantage of this and clock in with the higher-paying job code for the lower-paying… Continue

When it comes to point of sale (POS) systems, a common problem among restaurant owners is they buy an expensive system, but then don’t use any of the time-saving and valuable reporting features. Instead, they use it like an expensive cash register.



POS systems can do a lot more than ring up and cash out orders. The following are features found in most POS systems (please note: some of these features are add-on modules, depending on the vendor):



• Finding your… Continue

We recently set up our system to include communication with the valet and I was wondering what others out there thought about this?...

By the server asking for the valet ticket when they return to the table to collect payment and entering the ticket # at the POS, the valet receives notification to retrieve the customers car.



With only a few extra touches at the POS terminal, the servers are moving the tables faster upon payment and the feedback from the customers has been… Continue