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Serve and Sip Responsibly: Tackling Restaurant Liquor Liability Concerns

Modern Restaurant Management

Prioritize Staff Training : Restaurants should prioritize structured alcohol service training to ensure employees can effectively identify and mitigate risks. In addition to ID scanners, point-of-sale (POS) system alerts can notify staff when a guest has reached a pre-set drink limit, helping to prevent over consumption.

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What Restaurateurs Need to Know about Third-Party Cybersecurity Risks

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POS Vendors Point-of-sale (POS) systems play an obviously foundational role in daily restaurant operations, making them a prime target for hackers looking to do damage. Once they’ve gained access, hackers inject malicious code into the POS software.

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Bridging the Gap: Integrating Legal and Insurance Considerations into Restaurant Cybersecurity Response

Modern Restaurant Management

Brands (owner of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut) suffered a ransomware attack that forced the closure of approximately 300 restaurants in the UK and exposed personal information of hundreds of thousands of employees. Many insurers require you to work with their pre-approved forensic investigators, legal counsel and public relations firms.

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How Our Pop-Up Expanded to Serve a 10,000-Person Waitlist

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Organize all your orders dine-in, online, and third-party and fulfill them in a flash, right from your POS. In September 2020, amid COVID-related dine-in restrictions, Huang started using its kitchen for a delivery-only pop-up, selling a cross between Nashville hot chicken and Sichuan fried chicken.

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How Restaurant Operators Can Harness the Power of POS Data Analytics

Modern Restaurant Management

By investing in a data-driven POS platform, restaurant operators can address labor challenges, fine-tune their stock management, design promotions based on current trends, reduce human error and more. This shift underscores the evolution of POS systems from mere transactional tools to comprehensive data hubs.

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Growth of Modern Contactless Payments: Increasing Restaurant Profitability and Efficiency

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry is driving the growth of modern point-of-sale (POS) solutions that enable contactless payments. On the other side of the coin, restaurant employees would only need to manage one consolidated ordering and payment process and would have more bandwidth to deliver the experience each customer desires.

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Best Practices for Handling a Data Breach

Modern Restaurant Management

A former employee filed a class-action lawsuit against Panera, following a data breach earlier this year. The suit claims that Panera is to blame for the breach, which exposed employees’ personal information, including Social Security numbers. Can you give a little breakdown on the case facts?