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Three Things Your POS Can’t Do if You Lose Internet

Modern Restaurant Management

Nearly every restaurant in the United States relies on a Point of Sale (POS) system for the majority of its front-of-house operations. But what happens when your restaurant suffers an internet outage, taking your POS system with it? Your delivery management and online ordering will also be impacted.

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Menu Engineering: Focus on Profitability

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM's "Ask the Expert” features advice from Buyers Edge Platform on the topic of menu engineering. Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. When is the last time you costed out your recipes?

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Why Now is the Best Time to Upgrade Your Restaurant POS (Sponsored)

Modern Restaurant Management

As restaurant commerce experts, GoTab is helping operators upgrade and improve their POS systems to recast their operations for the post-pandemic era. Most of our customers don’t start out wanting to take on a full restaurant POS upgrade. Legacy restaurant POS systems also offer little in the way of flexibility.

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10 Reasons Why POS Systems Are Better For Restaurants Than A Cash Register

BNG Point of Sale

Running a POS system for your business is a key way to speed up orders and improve customer service; this is a universal truth for both restaurants and bars alike. Businesses like restaurants and bars use today’s advanced POS systems to their advantage, and you can benefit from them, too. How does a POS system work in a restaurant?

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Your Go-To Guide for Restaurant Inventory Management

7 Shifts

Both situations could have been prevented with proper restaurant inventory management, which gives restaurant operators better oversight over what's in stock and how it is used. The Best Restaurant Inventory Management Software. Choose The Right Inventory Management System. The Basics of Restaurant Inventory Management.

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What the Heck is a KPI and Why You Should Give a Sh*t

Embrace the Suck

To get you started down the KPI Mastery path, let’s start with the basic metrics: Cash Flow. Cash flow is simply the amount of money going in and out of the restaurant. It’s essentially how much cash you have on hand. Cash flow = Cash input - cash output. Allow me to help you manage your KPIs.

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The Best POS Systems for Small Businesses

MadMobile

With so many points of sale (POS) systems available in the market, finding the best POS for small businesses is essential to running your operations efficiently. How will you manage your menu? What kind of reports do you need to manage your restaurant? What kind of reports do you need to manage your restaurant?