Why Do Restaurants Need to Use POS?
| Why Do Restaurants Need to Use POS?
1. Accurate Billing, No Mistakes. POS stands for Point of sales. One of the first benefits coming to the mind of every restaurant when using POS to collect money, take orders, calculate totals and calculate change is that it minimizes errors in accepting payments and returning change. At the end of the day, totals can be summarized in cash. Payments can also be made through other channels, but this benefit is just a fraction of what POS can offer. |
| 2. Precise Delivery of Orders to the Kitchen
Many restaurants probably have order-taking points and kitchens located far away from each other. Many POS brands permit direct connections to printers inside kitchens to allow direct transmission of orders without requiring employees to walk long distances. One important thing to be careful about when selecting your service is making sure that the POS model can separately print food orders and bills, because the actual situations inside kitchens require that food orders be distributed to different stoves and preparation points. If food menus are printed long and tedious like bills sent to customers, it will be difficult to distribute kitchen bills properly.
3. POS Prevents Corruption |
POS devices have systems in place for preventing food order cancellations. This feature is very useful for people who used to face problems involving employees who bill customers and later cancel bills to avoid putting cash into the drawers or employees who send orders to the kitchen for meals and later cancel their own bills. These problems can be eliminated because these systems can specify food order cancellation privileges and require restaurant managers or authorized persons to cancel these orders. This makes it easy to check whether something unusual is going on.
| 4. You Can Know Your Sales in Detail
In addition to knowing how much we make in a day or a month, a POS provide much more. That’s because the system can record the individual food and beverage items that we sell, and we can export this information for daily or monthly views. Why do we need to know such in-depth information? Well, these pieces of information let us know which menu items sell really well and which menu items hardly sell at all. They can also help us know when our sales are good and when our sales are bad. They help us plan our promotions or eliminate dishes that we can’t sell or that give us ingredient burdens.
5. Effective Stock Management |
Nearly every POS brand has a BOMB feature. That is, it can include food recipes in the system and allow us to deduct our stock automatically when sales occur. However, many restaurant owners neglect this feature and think it’s complicated. In fact, this feature is essential for cost management and allows us to order our ingredients more accurately.
