Restaurant EPOS
When choosing a new Restaurant Epos system, there are many things to consider.
We highlighted some of the important issues, in our recent “Epos for Restaurants & Pubs” article.
In addition to the options discussed previously, there are some core features of the till system itself that you will most likely need.
There will also be many additional EPOS Restaurant features that you may not need, most of which come at considerable cost.
It is therefore worth thinking long and hard on whether you are going to use these extra features to ensure you don’t end up wasting your money.
Restaurant EPOS features to consider are:
Table booking – Probably only if you are a food led outlet
Tabs & suspend – Again, useful for when you want to run tabs on food and drink orders
Product catalogue – Do you want the capability to mass import items to this list?
Product modifiers – Great where you have different variations of products like milk & cooking levels
Discounts – useful if you want to run promotions and happy hours, but not essential
Staff management – It beats manually logging when staff start and finish
Kitchen printer – If you are food led and a biggish outlet this is essential
CRM system – If you want to manage customers and repeat business
Back office web portal – For multi outlet sites this allows you to look at sales across sites
Online reporting – Allows analysis of sales trends and creates valuable business insights
Stock management – Really useful in this sector
There are many other features that you may also want like direct integration with accountancy software, integrated payment devices, order at table payment devices, commission calculators, etc. All of which we have, but these may be down to personal preference.
Hopefully this helps on the basics, but if you need any more information then please feel free to call us for a chat.
If you have any questions on card payment solutions or our range of EPOS, Till Systems or Card Machines then feel free to contact us on 0203 985 9080 or info@breathepay.co.uk