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Restaurant Point of Sale – Earning More Than What You Expected! – Part II

For such a long time, most restaurant owners thought of their POS system as a fancy cash register. Since technology has become more advance and slowly becoming an essential part in the retail systems, most innovations have become a standard feature within the retail POS industry. Here are a few more:

1. Scheduling Your Employees. Many restaurant POS packages include some level of “staff scheduling”. You can expect to increase efficiency and dramatically reduce overall labor costs by controlling clock-ins and clock-outs, utilizing forecasting tools and control staffing levels. This feature allows accessing staff schedule with ease, as well as shifts and multiple job positions. You are also able to tie in any number of security functions to a job position. In addition, some of the packages has a feature that allows you to post schedules to a website and even automatically email the schedule out to your staff. Keep your labor costs in check and increase employee performance by efficiently and effectively managing your time & attendance information.

2. Software Upgrade Assurance or SUA. This is a software maintenance program that gives a bit different kind of advantage when purchasing for a POS system. You are able to help stretch your investment and prolong the life of your restaurant point of sale system. Customers who are on an SUA plan will always have the most current software version. This basically keeps their POS system new. Every time you receive a software upgrade it is as though they just bought the latest POS system in the market with the newest and most up-to-date features your restaurant can greatly benefit from. The most current feature set ensures that you have the best possible ROI by allowing you to have full advantage of what its POS software features offer.

Another advantage of having a SUA is that no additional software purchase is required if you’re upgrading or replacing a hardware. If you need to replace hardware there’s a drastically lesser cost for upgrading it.

These programs typically works on a yearly small fee to get their benfits. Ma customers are satisfied receiving the huge benefits of this program which helps your business reap the full return on your POS investment.

3. Proper Restaurant Tip Handling. Some point of sale software products have tip tracking built into their time in attendance module. Once you set one of your staff as a tipped employee, the POS system will require a tip declaration prior to clocking out. Servers and waiters who ring sales will get their total sales tracked. Tips collected through credit card sales are tracked and shown on the server closeout report. Before signing off, server/waiter will be shown their total sales for the day, tips collected and then will be asked to declare their cash tips. This functionality will help you enforce tip regulations and manage the tracking declared tips, charge tips and hours worked for every tipped employee.

4. Customer Loyalty Programs! As the business owner you would like your point of sale system to provide accurate information on your customer’s number and frequency of visits, their buying habits, entice repeat visits and purchases using reward programs like a loyalty card, reward card or points card. You are able to do all this while managing the programs and preventing “sweet hearting” by employees. Prevent retail loss at all cost! Sweet hearting happens when an employee promises a deal to a customer so that he/she can close a sale.

Some of the restaurant POS packages come standard with a frequent diner or customer loyalty package that eases things within your business. By accurately tracking down your guests and their buying habits, you can prevent retail loss. Establish a database of account numbers using your guests information.. This number can be their phone number or any number system you desire. In what ever strategy you choose, the most popular and most secure method is by using magnetic cards with your company logo on them. These cards can act as a constant reminder of your restaurant by having your business logo in their wallet or purse. The software will secure the reward programs you put in place to prevent your server or waiter from giving away food. Typically, rewards are earned only by customers who frequently visits or purchases an item on your menu that you wish to highlight. Establishing reward programs takes your staff out of the game and puts you in charge.

As you can see, your business can be run more efficiently by using proper restaurant technology. There are many ways, methods you can use, to aid you in better business managing so you will never have to waste more of your valuable time and money.

Michael Cummings is Vice President of Customer Relations at POS-for-Restaurants.com. With over 20 years of restaurant experience, POS-for-Restaurants.com helps you use your technology to be more efficient and more profitable.

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