Restaurant Point Of Sale

Finding a good restaurant point of sale system can be difficult. Lucky for you we have multiple systems to meet your beneficial needs and your budget.

There are a lot benefits that you can gain from upgrading a cash register or even more so upgrading from hand written slips. Point of sale systems are not like any cash register 20 years ago. With Point of Sale systems, you now have the ability to do inventory on your cheese, schedule your employees, and create gift cards like they do in big restaurants, in depth reporting to keep your money in your pocket and it makes your expenses less.

A point of sale system can give you a whole new level of control over your system and your store. It increases your revenue, fine tune your inventory management, change prices on the fly and offer specials on the fly.

What are the components of a point of sale system?

Back in the old days you had your cash registers where you manually perform your stores basic needs and that's about it. But now, things have already changed. Cash registers are still on demand but with newer and more efficient features to use.

	Computer System: This is the heart of your point of sale solution, many times a restaurant will have multiple stations (behind bar, cashier, servers, backoffice)
	Touchscreen Monitor : The touch abilities give your servers the ability to enter items in a quicker manner, makes changes on the fly quicker, choose from a seating map. Sometimes in higher end systems the monitor and computer are integrated (all in one).
	Thermal Printer: Usually a thermal printer is at every station giving the servers the ability to print out bills, printing out cashier reports at the end of the night, and giving copy of receipts. These printers print in just a nicke of time at a speed of around 7.9" per second.
	Mag Swipe Readers : With a mag swipe you can issue swipe cards to all your staff allowing them to sign in and giving you the ability to lock certain people out of certain features (discounts, voids, etc). It also makes signing in a lot more efficient then using a 5 digit number to sign in.
	UPS : An uninterrupted Power Supply is cheap insurance for any POS System. It provides enough backup power for you to work through short and medium length power outages. It also safeguards your equipment from damaging surges and spikes that travel along your utility and data lines.
	Backoffice Station: This would be a system typically for a computer with a normal monitor, keyboard and mouse and attached would be a laser printer. The Backoffice is where you would be entering your product information, changing prices, updating specials and printing off reports. In a situation where there is only 1 terminal in the restaurant, the station and the backoffice would be used for the same purpose
	Cash Drawer: In a restaurant you may have your cash drawer with a cashier, bartender. In most situations the servers and bartender keep all cash in there purses and cash it out at the end of the night.
	Impact Printer: Impact printers are used to receive orders in the kitchen. These are similar to the thermal printers but the noticeable difference is the printing speed and the fact that it does not print onto thermal paper. Impact printers also include ribbons instead of a laser. These printers are used in kitchen for durability and the fact that the impact paper does not turn black when in hot environment like the thermal printers do.

What are the benefits of upgrading to a POS System over my cash register?

The foremost advantage that a restaurant with point of sale system could have is the lesser time spent in ordering process. It reduces the time needed for a staff to transfer the order to the kitchen and the time spent in the kitchen updating orders and making error corrections. The benefit gains of a POS system can be impressive especially in busy establishments. If a restaurant has 25 active tables and the average check is 35$, you can increase turnover by one party per table which makes it an extra $875 per night.

Additional Benefits would include being able to reduce shrinkage. Each server can control discounts, voids and error corrects. You can track exactly what discounts are used for and the reason code for it simply by locking out the discounts or voids completely upon authorization which eliminates that part of shrinkage.

Advanced reporting gives you a lot of insights to your business including busy and slow periods, giving you the ability to staff more efficiently for those periods of time. It also serves as great tool to view and change what you are selling and those that are not for purchase.