ChowNow

MAY 23, 2025

Keep them too low, and youre losing your net profit margin every time someone orders. Costs keep climbing Youve probably noticed: Food costs are volatile, driven by inflation, supply chain issues, and even climate change. Drive more direct orders Make it easy for customers to order straight from your website or mobile app.

Point of Sale

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.

POS

Lavu

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Start by analyzing these Top 7 POS Sales Reports to know where your restaurant is headed. Quick Tip : Use modern POS systems like Lavu for real-time, cloud-based reporting to simplify decision-making. Top 7 POS Reports for Sales Trend Analysis: Boost Your Restaurant’s Performance 1.

POS

ChowNow

MARCH 27, 2025

To conduct menu pricing profitably, you need to factor in the behind-the-scenes costs that keep your doors openthat includes rent, utilities, insurance, labor, cleaning supplies, linen, and everything in between. Using Data from POS: Leverage technology to refine your pricing Your POS is a goldmine of pricing insightsuse it.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Adaptability became non-negotiable as takeout, delivery, and digital ordering shifted from secondary revenue streams to essential lifelines." Self-ordering kiosks, QR codes, mobile apps and loyalty reward cards have created more personalized experiences, which increase the likelihood customers will return.

Front of House

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

To get a clearer picture of your product mix, use reports from your POS system to track key metrics like sales volume, pour cost, and inventory usage. Review your inventory and spot areas where there’s over-ordering and spoilage, especially for perishable items like food and garnishes.

Point of Sale

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

How do you handle multiple tables and orders at once? What steps would you take if a customer received the wrong order? How do you maintain accuracy when taking orders for large groups? How do you handle multiple tables and orders at once? What does excellent customer service mean to you? How did you resolve it?

Hiring

Lavu

JUNE 30, 2025

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. A modern POS system is more than just a cash register – it’s the operational hub of your restaurant. Want to know more?

POS

Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

POS integrations have become essential for streamlining daily operations, reducing errors, and allowing staff to focus more on the customer experience. Whether its managing inventory, handling online orders, or running loyalty programs, the right integrations can turn your POS system into a powerful tool for efficiency.

POS

Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

Setting up a POS system for a restaurant in 2025 isnt just about installing machinesits about finding the right tools to help your business run smoothly. The right POS setup can make it easier to take orders, manage staff, track sales, and keep customers happy. Why It Matters : Modern POS systems are more than payment tools.

POS

Lavu

APRIL 17, 2025

It also streamlines the ordering process, ensuring that every ingredient is purchased and used with purpose. Controls Costs : Optimizes ordering and stock levels, avoiding unnecessary expenses. Enhances Supplier Management : Boosts ordering accuracy and supplier relationships.

Inventory

Lavu

JULY 4, 2025

From self-order kiosks to real-time kitchen display systems, digital solutions are reshaping the way these restaurants operate. Here’s how technology is making it possible in 2025: Self-Service Kiosks : Reduce order wait times by 40%, shrink queues by 25–40%, and increase average check sizes by 30%. The impact?

2025

MBB Hospitality

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Restaurant online ordering has emerged as a crucial aspect of the food service industry, reshaping restaurant operation strategies and fostering growth in restaurant delivery services. This article explores how online ordering is advancing and highlights the key concerns for businesses aiming to stay competitive.

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

While the ways we order and dine may have changed, the reasons people choose a restaurant haven’t. Whether it’s speeding up order times, improving inventory management, or boosting loyalty programs, every tool should serve a purpose. A key part of this shift is efficient data sharing across the supply chain.

Loyalty Program

Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

These platforms can save managers up to 75% on creating employee work schedules, save restaurants up to 4% on labor costs, greatly reduce scheduling errors, and integrate with current POS labor and sales data for increased accuracy. Best of all, swapping shifts and picking up shifts can all be done through a mobile device.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." The pandemic made speed, accuracy, and seamless ordering non-negotiable.

Mobile Ordering

Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

There is a lot of competition and it is certain to win if your branding, POS system, or customer service is lacking in any way. Quick Service Restaurant Mistakes Often Start with an Outdated or Inflexible POS System Of all the items your restaurant requires, a modern, flexible point-of-sale system (POS) is critical.

Customer Service

Qu

MARCH 28, 2025

Dynamic Order Routing During peak hours, traditional order management systems often create bottlenecks as multiple sales channels (drive-thru, in-store, mobile, third-party delivery) compete for kitchen resources. Edge devices process orders locally, eliminating cloud processing delays and network latency issues.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 13, 2022

A fragmented supply chain is also increasing ingredient costs, leading restaurants to balance staff churn with a changing menu to keep revenue consistent. Monitoring Supply Can Curb Waste and Loss. At the end of 2021, four out of five restaurants reported facing a staffing shortage due to reduced operating hours and dining capacity.

POS

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Just as with COVID shutdowns and supply chain issues, restaurant technology can help operators continue providing great service even with high costs for them and customers alike. A point-of-sale (POS) system can streamline the ordering and preparation processes, making it easier to improve service even during peak service.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

Square is launching On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store where sellers can dispatch a courier through delivery partners for orders placed directly on their website. This approach is often expensive because these platforms charge a commission to fulfill the delivery for each order. On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

All that said, grappling with supply chain and labor shortages and with an imperative to keep everyone safe continues to put restaurant operators in a tough position. For example, a handheld POS device will allow you to turn tables faster, improve order accuracy, and speed up service. And that's not all. Go Digital.

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

Early in the pandemic, 72 percent of operators invested in delivery and mobile/online ordering to boost revenue during mandated stay-at-home orders according to TD's 2020 survey, and it appears the popularity of these offerings is here to stay. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2023

With the Super Bowl and March Madness coming up, restaurant owners should be preparing now in order to capitalize on the influx of online orders. Restaurant owners can create a compelling offer to engage those subscribers that haven’t ordered but fit the demographics for a game day customer.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery. You can see which other restaurants they frequent, too, and the types of items they order from those places. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

Grubhub launched its latest report, "State of the Plate", looking at trends across the more than half a million orders placed a day. Methodology: Grubhub took a look at order trends on its platform from January 1 – June 20, 2020, as compared to the same timeframe in 2019 to find the top items rising in popularity so far.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 10, 2022

Food prices are soaring amidst supply chain disruptions, increasing labor costs, and processing plant shutdowns. To cope with their current challenges, food-service businesses need to look back on their lockdown experiences — and keep on innovating in order to keep customers coming back for more. First-Rate Service.

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many dining establishments found ways to use AI to track and flag stock quantities, automate schedule-making for staff, implement customer service chatbots and process online orders. The increasing threat of fraud, especially through spoofing, is also anticipated to drive the widespread adoption of secure mobile payment methods in the future.

2023

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It also gets rid of those frustrating sticky notes all over your POS. Kiosk ordering Your busy customers don’t always have time to wait in line. Kiosk ordering tools speed up the ordering process, making it easier to keep up during a mealtime rush. They receive a number, and the order is sent directly to the kitchen.

Management

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

17 percent said they were just avoiding dining-in (opting to pick-up or have food delivered), with 10 percent appearing to lean toward Ordering for Pickup only. Rakuten Ready’s ROI Study found that most consumers thought ordering in person or using the drive-thru would be fastest. Faster than order in person at Taco Bell.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

With thousands of restaurants forced to close their dining rooms, and millions of Americans facing sudden unemployment, GroupRaise saw an opportunity to mobilize its 10,000+ restaurant partners along with their communities to offer those who are able a chance to support both local business and food distribution to at-risk families.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

Forty percent of those surveyed in the US and 39 percent in the UK said they would feel safer if they could view the menu from their mobile device, while 35 percent in the US versus 31 percent in the UK would like to be able to pay in the same manner. The US and UK also varied on how they wanted to retrieve take-out orders.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Using par levels based on real usage and not just a “guess” creates more accurate orders. Forecasting tools enable managers to purchase food, beverage, and supplies at the right level. The log can be a simple spreadsheet hanging on a clipboard in the kitchen or a waste log app on a mobile phone.

Inventory

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

2023

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. These include marketing, website development, omnichannel payments and point-of-sale (POS) solutions. "We're

Serving

7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Mobile Coffee Shops (Carts and Trucks). Rent, equipment costs, supplies, marketing, and paying staff are among the costs you'll incur when just starting. Make sure you're diligent about asking what a wholesale supplier's order minimums are as well as their order turnaround time. Market and Promote the Opening.

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