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Your POS system is a great tool for enabling confidence in choosing the exact number of employees needed for each shift. The sales data collected by your point of sale system is a great resource to discover trends for the peak times in your restaurant.

Employing a POS system to handle the management of inventory will help to eliminate waste, avoid shortages, and save time

The system will also keep real-time counts on new ingredients and supplies as they arrive at the restaurant and are used in each customer’s order.

restaurants to focus on productivity without having to spend too much time on the matter.

Digital menus can include high resolution photos of the food served.

Digital menus also increase accuracy in ordering.

Having a digitized menu can give a restaurant the competitive edge it requires to grow a business and build a loyal following.

They can include additional nutritional information, details on gluten free ordering, diabetic recommendations and markers, and other information that may not make it into a paper menu.

A digital menu can upsell or recommend paired dishes automatically, resulting in higher sales and better customer satisfaction.

easier to produce menus in multiple languages when they are digital,

make the menu accessible on all devices - from PCs to tablets and mobile phones,

you’ll need to keep the following costs in mind: license fees, monthly support fees, and the cost of any hardware bundles you may need to purchase. Below is a breakdown of the average costs.

Monthly support fees

Do your best to avoid long-term contracts and cancellation fees, as these can add to your overall cost and convenience

Erba Collective, a Los Angeles cannabis dispensary, installed self-service kiosks that accepted cashless payments to reduce wait times and increase customer turnover.

It’s the right solution for today’s consumers: Consumers value their time, and waiting in line can destroy an otherwise great customer experience.

It’s the right solution for today’s businesses: Merchants are facing mounting challenges ranging from rising labor costs to new competition. Self-service kiosks can help businesses do more with the same staff, minimizing the labor required for order taking or checkout.

o provide unattended POS solutions, you will need to speak with your vendors or find new partners that offer the types of hardware you need. It’s also vital that you work with a payments partner with expertise in managing unattended POS transactions.

EMV chip technology will help prevent card fraud.

part of their omnichannel strategies

If your goal is to be a total solutions provider and meet all of your customers’ needs

one-stop shop.”

How to stop chargeback fraud

How to stop break-ins and robberies

How to stop vendor fraud

Break-ins and Robberies

What is vendor fraud?

Types of Internal Fraud in Restaurants

Even before the pandemic, Ziosk, while not a consumer brand-name, has attracted big-time customers. On its website, it lists such partners as Olive Garden and Yardhouse. The company provides devices that let customers pay at the table, get access to digital games and see restaurant promotions, along with other services.

And now, restaurants are beginning to open again, even if under limitations in some parts of the country.

The PCI Security Standards Council claims that since March, malicious virus-related reports are up 475%. The reason for the uptick is that cybercriminals are trying to take advantage of rapid changes to the payment-card data environment. In addition, 41% of small businesses have said they’ve suffered breaches costing more than $50,000 to fix.

Contactless payment is one of the big changes within the payment data environment. Several restaurant companies – from chains to independents – are offering it because it reduces customers' physical interaction with the restaurant's POS system. As part of this move, some businesses have eliminated credit-card PIN numbers.

Eliot says malicious email is usually the easiest way for cybercriminals to access your networks. The emails typically show up as urgent requests for sensitive information, often pretending to be from the Small Business Administration or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When the intended victim types in his or her credentials and clicks on a specific link or downloads an attachment, criminals are in.

Anyone looking for easy-to-implement security tips can try these six to start. Reduce areas where payment-card data is stored. The best way to protect against a data breach is to avoid storing any card information at all. With many small operators offering curbside pickup and accepting payment over the phone instead of through face-to-face transactions, it’s important they train employees not to write down payment card details. Instead, have them enter numbers directly into a secure terminal. Use strong passwords. Using weak and default passwords is one of the leading causes of payment data breaches among businesses. Effective passwords must be strong and updated regularly. The most recent guidance is: the longer, the better. Think of it almost as a “passphrase” rather than a password. Use it in the form of a sentence, but mix in different characters within the phrase. It’s much harder to break a long passphrase than it is a short, complex password. Weak and vendor default passwords often result in small business data breaches. Also, don’t repeat your passwords. Update your software often. Criminals look for outdated software to exploit flaws in unpatched systems. Timely installations of security patches are crucial to minimizing the risk of a breach. Whenever updates are available, use them. They will improve performance and close out some of the vulnerabilities cybercriminals are searching for. Enable two-factor authentication. It's so important for restaurateurs, especially where their POS systems or any of their sensitive databases are concerned, to have two-factor or multi-factor authentication enabled. If an instance where credentials are stolen occurs, there will be a second layer of verification the operator can rely on to potentially reduce the chances that information will be breached. Segment your networks. If you are going to store payment data, make sure your POS system has its own separate, secure network. Do not store sensitive documents on public cloud services such as Google Docs or DropBox. If you’re going to store sensitive documents, house them in an encrypted, locked down location.   Be hyper-vigilant. Criminals are going to try to take advantage of this pandemic situation as much as possible. You can protect yourself by not giving out sensitive information, especially within unsolicited emails. Don’t click on links you’re not expecting and do everything in your power to protect all sensitive information.

Target a specific day or time

create a landing page

brand

Involving the community builds long-term brand.

partner with another downtown restaurant for a combo deal

Refer customers to each other and partner with complementary businesses.

Think about how you want your first-time customers to FEEL

loyalty or rewards program, or maybe an exclusive member club

exclusive deals, discounts or events for members

Speak to a specific target audience and make them feel special

target the specific location

advertise to any location you choose.

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The website is flexible, restaurant owners since can even change prices remotely using the SalesVu Point-of-Sale management interface

 This model significantly decreases the risk of data-loss in the case of disasters.

On-the-spot reports, graphs and alerts will let you know if your labor costs are meeting your goals.

Take some time on a quarterly basis to review your menu performance reports, update your food cost comparisons, and evaluate your couponing. Use the information your POS system has been gathering to help make informed decisions to improve your bottom line!