Enter your allergens 

Allergens are big news these days, and rightly so. Any errors can have catastrophic consequences, for your business and your customers. 

If your POS system enables you to enter allergens against your products (and any good restaurant POS should) this should be high up on your priority list. 

On our restaurant POS a long press on a product button will quickly show staff any allergens in the dish, along with a description, photo, instructions, or any other detail you find useful. 

Try out a kitchen screen

Most restaurants still operate using printed orders, routed to the kitchen, or appropriate section. This may be the system that works best for your kitchen, but if you haven’t considered it, it is worth looking at, or trying out a kitchen screen. 

If your chef is happy to adapt, a kitchen screen can provide many benefits. Tickets can’t get lost, or fail to print if your printer errors or runs out of paper, messages inform front of house staff when food is ready, chefs can easily process wastage, and your food service times are tracked in detail. 

Integrate your accounts package 

The days of sending paper records off to your bookkeeper and seeing how your business is doing many months (and a lot fees) later are gone. Any good hospitality EPOS system will enable you to integrate with a range of accounts packages so that sales, payments and petty cash purchases are posted to your accounts automatically. 

With a few other processes you can automate the rest of your accounts and have a much more real-time view of how your business is performing. 

With our restaurant EPOS you can enter your operating costs directly on the back office and get an even more immediate view of your bottom line using our P&L report. 

Integrate other functions 

It is likely that your chosen EPOS integrates with many other systems that perform different functions. 

Most restaurants rely heavily on bookings and it’s a common sight to see a laptop open with the days bookings calendar on display. Integrating with your booking system can provide everything you need on one device, smoothly handling deposits, and give you data on your customers purchasing habits. 

Integrating a staff scheduling system can give you a good forecast of your wage percentage based on your planned rota, and let you see what you achieved once the week is over. 

With our restaurant epos system, these functions are built in, providing a completely seamless integration between these different aspects of your operation. 

If you’ve recently (or even not so recently) switched to your new EPOS, but you haven’t yet found the time to do more than the basics, hopefully the above will help. There may also be other steps that are even more important for your business and the EPOS you’ve selected. Either way, if you’ve spent the time & effort selecting the perfect EPOS for your restaurant, make sure you find the time to get the most out of it.