Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

A customizable POS system gives restaurants the power to adapt, integrate, and innovate without being locked into rigid software limitations. Whether you’re connecting loyalty programs, online ordering, or inventory tools, open APIs make it possible to tailor your POS to match your exact operational needs. What is an Open API?

POS

Harbor Touch

MARCH 18, 2025

With a POS system like SkyTab and solid accounting software, you can track it all without losing your mind. A restaurant POS system like SkyTab, though, has no upfront cost, just $29 per month. For his SkyTab POS, he deducts the $29 monthly fee as an ongoing expense. Employee Meals: Free Food, Free Savings Feeding staff on-site?

Point of Sale

Lavu

AUGUST 8, 2025

That’s why more restaurant owners are turning to an iPad restaurant POS system to modernize operations, reduce costs, and enhance customer service. Unlike traditional POS systems, iPad-based solutions offer mobility, intuitive interfaces, and cloud-based functionality — making them ideal for restaurants of all sizes.

POS

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

How do you handle special dietary requests or food allergies? Use this interview question to explore the candidate’s familiarity with food service operations. Aside from providing the best dining experience, order-taking accuracy can help you avoid food waste and unnecessary costs. What restaurant tools have you used?

Hiring

Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

Running a successful restaurant in 2025 isnt just about serving great food and offering good serviceit also requires the right technology behind the scenes. POS integrations have become essential for streamlining daily operations, reducing errors, and allowing staff to focus more on the customer experience. POS integrations can help.

POS

Lavu

JUNE 30, 2025

Running a successful restaurant today requires more than great food and friendly service—it demands smart technology that drives efficiency. A well-designed POS system improves restaurant operations by streamlining order management, speeding up transactions, and delivering real-time insights that help optimize every aspect of the business.

POS

The Restaurant Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Definition and Purpose of Inventory Management in Restaurants At its core, Restaurant Inventory Management involves tracking and controlling the ingredients and supplies that flow in and out of your restaurant. Prioritizing it leads to: Lower food costs by minimizing spoilage and overordering. Reduces food waste and saves money.

Inventory

SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

For weekly or more in-depth reporting, accounting software that integrates with your POS system is recommended.  Your P&L line items should be consistent with the ones on different platforms—POS, inventory management, and accounting software. Those sales line items should match the ones in your POS reporting.

License

The Rail

JANUARY 15, 2025

For example, repositioning prep stations or food pickup points can reduce unnecessary back-and-forth. Simplifying service paths: Optimize the positioning of key service stations, such as beverage counters or POS systems, to reduce staff travel distances and speed up service times. Automate processes to save time and energy.

Outdoor

Restaurant Business

JUNE 6, 2025

The salad chain said it also sees opportunity in California, where the fast-food minimum wage is $20 per hour. Members help make our journalism possible. Sweetgreen says its high-tech Infinite Kitchens could mitigate the impact of a $30 minimum wage being proposed in New York. Sign Up Thanks for signing up!

Fast Casual

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 27, 2025

Bengaluru, India) Wed, 25 Jun – Conflict in the Middle East may disrupt coffee supply chains and raise costs, although ceasefire holds steady. The London-based chain experienced 28% year-on-year growth, driven by its 22 stores, wholesale operations, e-commerce, and office coffee supply, with the addition of 60 new corporate contracts.

2025

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 2, 2025

The restaurant business is a dynamic, fast-paced world where passion for food and hospitality often takes center stage. It’s also vital for verifying deposits from your POS system. Close Out Sales, Tips, and POS Reports Your Point of Sale (POS) system is a treasure trove of sales data. Are you meeting your targets?

Cash Management

Lavu

APRIL 17, 2025

Managing food costs is a growing challenge for restaurants as ingredient prices fluctuate and margins shrink. With real-time data guiding inventory decisions, restaurants can take tighter control of their food costs and boost long-term profitability. Improves Compliance : Ensures proper storage and food safety standards.

Inventory

Lavu

JUNE 26, 2025

Running a successful restaurant isn’t just about great food and service—it’s also about smart financial management. You probably joined the industry to make delicious food to serve and create a great environment for your patrons. It includes all the cost incurred on food and beverage, payroll, taxes, and benefits).

2025

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 25, 2025

Restaurants and Food Service: Including fine dining, fast casual, QSRs, cafes, and catering. Point-of-Sale (POS) Integration: Seamless integration with POS systems is critical for capturing sales data, managing inventory in real-time, and ensuring accurate revenue reporting.

Hospitality

Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Running a successful restaurant in 2025 means more than just great food—it requires smart financial decisions. Use these Calculations to Maximize Cost Reduction The food cost percentage is the number one calculation that restaurants can use today to maximize their cost reduction. Food cost control is crucial.

Loyalty Program

Restaurant Business

JULY 25, 2025

Becca McIntyre, Beans & Brews Coffee House Beans & Brews Coffee House appointed Becca McIntyre as VP of supply chain and culinary. Separately, both have previously held leadership roles in chains including Pollo Campero, Salata, Schlotzsky’s, Popeyes, Arby’s, Applebee’s, Papa Johns and more.

Leadership

Restaurant Business

JUNE 5, 2025

The experience is available with a spirit-free beverage pairing, and the restaurant’s website notes that the chef is “over five years sober.” Konro is a Japanese-inspired concept known for a 10- to 14-course tasting menu, served at a chef’s counter with only 10 seats.

Fast Casual

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 21, 2025

Point-of-Sale (POS) System Integration: Seamless integration of POS data into accounting systems is crucial for real-time sales tracking, accurate revenue recognition, and identifying trends. Knowledge of Industry-Specific Tools: Are they proficient with common hospitality POS systems (e.g., Opera, Cloudbeds)?

Hospitality

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 30, 2025

A single percentage point difference in food costs or labor can be the difference between profit and loss. Vendor Disputes: Without proper documentation of invoices and payments, disputes with suppliers can escalate, damaging relationships and potentially disrupting supply chains. Learn more about our Accounting Services !

Bar

Restaurant Business

JUNE 10, 2025

Joining forces will allow the company to connect the dots between restaurants’ inventory, food prep and order flow, allowing operators to serve customers faster and more profitably, the companies said. “We chains as the restaurant tech market continues to consolidate. chains as the restaurant tech market continues to consolidate.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As economic pressures and fluctuating food costs persist, these technologies will be critical for maintaining profitability and ensuring long-term sustainability. Younger generations are increasingly favoring restaurants that prioritize sustainability… local sourcing, reducing food waste, energy efficient operations.

2025

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 3, 2025

Unlike general business accounting, restaurant bookkeeping services need to account for elements like fluctuating food costs, labor issues, and seasonality. Revenue Management : Hospitality accounting involves tracking multiple revenue streams, such as rooms, food, and beverage sales.

Hotels

SpotOn

JULY 15, 2025

You’ll need to memorize dozens of cocktails, beer and wine lists, happy hour rules, and, more often than not, entire food menus. The cons: Like all jobs, serving people alcoholic beverages night after night has its downsides.   It is the fastest way to learn how to bartend. 

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The turmoil caused by the pandemic has disrupted global supply chains more than any other period in recent history. It has highlighted the critical importance of evolving supply chain systems to be more responsive and agile to the changing dynamics around us – which the past two years have been extensive.

Supplies

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2022

The key to operating a profitable restaurant is understanding your profits and losses, knowing how to manage food and labor costs and making strategic decisions about expenses and investments. Historical sales levels can indicate what food, beverages, and supplies you need to buy for the next comparable sales period.

Inventory

Goliath Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

Reopening restaurants with current supply chain issues makes this once rare scenario seem to be a weekly occurrence. With the increasingly frustrating variables in the current restaurant industry, beverage supply chain does not need to be the straw that breaks the camels back.

Supplies

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2022

Rebounding demand, supply chain issues, and labor shortages are mostly to blame for driving prices to an all-time high. Not only is your menu a key part of the customer experience but consider all major areas of restaurant operations, such as food cost, labor, marketing, accounting, and sales forecasts when making decisions about your menu.

Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2020

It’s relevant today because it helps restaurant leaders contend with enduring issues like crisis recovery, demand fluctuations, food waste, keeping the human touch, managing change, and retaining employees. For this hour, the barista might work the two-beverages-at-once cycle. They would remain focused only on that task.

Management

Goliath Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Supply chain issues and Covid-19 are not making it easy to run a bar right now. With many municipalities modifying laws on delivery and to-go alcoholic beverages, restaurants have a lot of room to get creative. Most restaurant alcohol delivery programs function like food programs. Drinks require less than an ounce of spirits.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

These include marketing, website development, omnichannel payments and point-of-sale (POS) solutions. "We're Tastewise, an AI-powered food intelligence solution, launched in the UK. ” “Tastewise has been incredibly valuable in helping us to uncover white spaces in the food and beverage industry.

Serving

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

According to the National Restaurant Association’s State of the Industry report, 68 percent of customers say they are more likely to purchase takeout or delivery of food than they were before the pandemic. Food and beverage sales in the restaurant and foodservice industry are projected to total $789 billion in 2021, up 19.7

2022

7 Shifts

APRIL 29, 2021

Set your alarms and make sure you're ready, as it's expected that the demand will outweigh the supply of funds. Work with your POS partner to see how they can assist in getting the applications sent as soon as possible. Any establishment that serves food or beverages to guests is eligible. Food trucks, carts, or stands.

Restaurant Law

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Unprecedented labor and supply chain pressure will drive most of the restaurant trends that will define 2022, industry analysts say. Diners simply don’t want the low food quality that often comes with long menus. These restaurant food trends can directly impact a restaurant’s profitability.

2022

7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

Not only do you have to manage many costs including, labor, equipment, and food—but you have to do it while dealing with inevitable price increases. Whether it’s food cost increases due to inflation or a labor cost rise due to rising minimum wage, cost increases, like taxes, are pretty much a guarantee in the restaurant industry.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

AI-based robots cook your food and deliver meals on time without missing a beat. Local health lockdowns and limitations caused havoc for food supply chains, staffing, customer demand, and remote ordering. Many restaurants were ill-prepared to compete with food delivery services like GrubHub and DoorDash.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Forecasting tools enable managers to purchase food, beverage, and supplies at the right level. Integration between the POS and inventory management software allows inventory to be managed from end-to-end by automating steps such as tracking recipes, uploading invoices and auto-updating item prices.

Inventory