Answering Common Restaurant System Questions
Now that you have finally made up your mind in upgrading your manual restaurant system to point of sales, there are possibly thousands of questions floating in your mind, as such here are the answers you might need to some of the common POS questions.
What is a POS?
A point of sale solution is a form of sales promotions that can help you lessen your time spent on stocktaking, balancing tills, recording sales transactions, transferring stock and changing prices. With a POS solution, you will be able to take real control of your restaurant’s gross profits while maintaining your business operations at its best.
How Many POS Will You Need?
This decision depends on these factors:
- Customer Volume on Your Peak Hours – the number of station your restaurant needs greatly depends on the volume of customers your restaurant receives at its peak hours so that you will be able to accommodate the influx of customers during these hours.
- Number of Employees taking Orders – rule of thumb, assign one terminal for every 3-5 servers
- Your Restaurant’s Layout – If you have a bar, the bartender needs a station dedicated for himself and place units where servers can easily access them.
What POS Computer is best?
- Desktop – the standard is the least expensive option but takes more space, should there be technical issues, problems are isolated because computer components are separate.
- Small form factor – smaller and more stylish than desktops, space saver, offers fewer options for expandability.
- All-in-ones – combination of touchscreen and computer, most stylish options with fewer wires and least space required and comes with sufficient ports for almost any operation.
How Many Cash Drawers and receipt printers Should You Have?
This is obvious, you should have one cash drawer for every unit to end transactions. As for the printer, each station should have their own receipt printer.
Should You have back Office Computer?
A back office computer is good for running reports and accessing the restaurant system to make changes in the menu, check the inventory levels or adjust employee’s time clock as not to disturb the servers and cashiers.
Also, a back office computer is an ideal option to host the database if you have 4 or more terminals in your restaurants so that your stations will not be burdened of the additional load of running your database.
If you want a more detailed information about your POS needs, you can call H&L Australia at 1800 778 340 or visit them at http://www.hlaustralia.com.au/
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