Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2021

With colder weather right around the corner for many parts of the country, now is the time for restaurant owners to utilize their POS technology to maximize outdoor dining profits and capitalize on the end of summer season. Actionable Insights Gathered by POS Data. Customized and Tailored Promotions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

While working hard to bring customers back into the restaurant is very important for success, it has become more important to figure out the third-party equation in terms of pricing, commissions and fees, and value – which is ultimately the difference between success and failure.

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Lavu

APRIL 4, 2025

Choosing the best POS system for bars in 2025 is essential for streamlining operations, enhancing customer experience, and maximizing profits. A modern POS system for bars goes beyond just processing paymentsit helps with inventory management, staff scheduling, and real-time sales tracking. Pricing starts at $9.99/month.

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Lavu

MARCH 13, 2025

POS systems do more than handle payments they utilize POS data to help restaurants analyze and manage seasonal sales trends. By leveraging POS data, restaurants can adjust inventory, staffing, and marketing strategies to maximize profits during busy periods and minimize waste during slow seasons.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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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ChowNow

MARCH 13, 2025

Juggling multiple food delivery apps means switching between tablets, manually entering orders into the POS, and trying to keep track of ever-changing fees and commissions. Most platforms require restaurant staff to log into a separate device, respond to orders in real time, and manually transfer details into the POS system.

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ChowNow

MARCH 21, 2025

Understanding your target market is the foundation of making smart decisions for your menu, pricing, and overall guest experience. Meanwhile, a fine-dining steakhouse targeting business professionals will prioritize a refined menu, premium pricing, and marketing efforts that focus on corporate events and high-end experiences.

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Lavu

MARCH 28, 2025

Managing special occasion promotions is easier than ever with the best POS system features and integrated online ordering. Key Features to Consider in the Best POS System Promotion Management : Tools like automated scheduling to handle discounts for events like birthdays or anniversaries.

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Lavu

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

POS systems do more than just process payments they enable restaurants to personalize menus by analyzing customer data. Learn more in our latest post: How POS Systems Enable Menu Personalization. Example : OMaddys in Florida uses its POS data to refine menus based on feedback, boosting customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2022

But independently owned, more agile operations can out-maneuver big brands by leaning on their point of sale (POS) platforms to increase sales and expand their client bases. Consider tapping into the treasure trove of customer information your POS platform contains. Let’s say the price of beef goes up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 7, 2025

Ditching Tipping for Higher Wages Some restaurants are opting to eliminate tipping altogether, raising menu prices to cover fair wages instead. While this might seem risky, surveys show that most customers are fine with slightly higher prices if it means doing away with tipping.

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Lavu

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Start by analyzing these Top 7 POS Sales Reports to know where your restaurant is headed. Here’s what you need to know: Sales Reports : Track revenue, peak hours, product performance, and staff contributions to refine pricing, menu, and staffing. These reports are your roadmap to better profits and smoother operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 10, 2024

Adapt to Growing Price Fatigue Since the pandemic, controlling food costs has been a major challenge for restaurant operators. When prices for staple ingredients like chicken rose dramatically in 2023, restaurant operators were forced to increase their prices. Full-service menu prices climbed 4.5

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Running your own online ordering system gives you complete control over pricing, promotions, and customer data, helping you maximize profits while still offering convenience. Theres little room for branding, and menu presentation, pricing, and promotions are often influenced by the platforms rules rather than the restaurants preferences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

"These tariffs could deeply affect the food service and hospitality industries on both sides of the border," Alex Thalassinos, President of Silverware POS, one of the first tech providers dedicated to Canada’s hospitality industry, told Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Integrating mobile inventory systems with POS platforms simplifies restaurant operations by automating inventory updates, reducing errors, and providing real-time insights. Lavu Lavu offers a cloud-based iPad POS system designed to simplify restaurant management, particularly when it comes to handling inventory across multiple channels.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

That’s where POS inventory tools step in to help. Key Ways POS Systems Save Restaurants Money: Real-Time Tracking : Automatically updates stock levels as orders are placed, reducing waste and preventing stockouts. Automation : Handles tasks like purchase orders and pricing updates, saving time and minimizing errors.

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ChowNow

MARCH 27, 2025

How POS integrations can help Most mistakes happen because staff are manually re-entering online orders. Using POS integration eliminates this risk by sending orders directly to the kitchen, reducing human errors, and ensuring customers receive exactly what they ordered. Portion size. How well your menu is optimized for delivery.

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ChowNow

MARCH 20, 2025

Instead of manually updating prices, items, and descriptions across your website ordering and third-party delivery apps, this software allows you to make changes in one place and sync them everywhere instantly. Incorrect pricing can cut into margins, and outdated offerings can cost you canceled orders, negative reviews, and lost revenue.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In 2025, one of the most powerful tools at your disposal will be your Point of Sale (POS) system. Far more than just a way to process payments, todays POS technology is transforming the restaurant industryhelping you streamline operations, cut costs, and deliver superior customer experiences.

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ChowNow

MARCH 7, 2025

The more you understand your customers, the better you can fine-tune your marketing and pricing strategies. You can also use sales trends to adjust menu pricing and share customer-favorite menu items, helping you get the most out of high-demand dishes. Lets break down the key benefits of leveraging your restaurants customer data.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Use your POS system to analyze sales, profitability, and trends. Fine-Tune Pricing : Increase prices on high-margin items or bundle them with less popular options. With tools like Lavu ‘s cloud-based POS, you can simplify data analysis and make informed changes to boost sales and profits.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Additionally, integrating delivery orders directly into your restaurants POS system eliminates the need for manual entry, decreasing the chances of duplicate or lost orders. Here are the key features to look for when evaluating your options: Easily integrates with your existing POS system. Greater numbers of happy customers.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For example: If you want to improve efficiency look for software that integrates with your POS and kitchen systems. A higher-priced system that saves time and reduces errors might be more valuable than a cheaper, less effective alternative. Are you aiming to speed up service, cut labor costs, or increase online sales?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Inventory and Menu Management : Though 47 percent of operators say that all or most of their suppliers increased prices during the pandemic, two-thirds of restaurants maintained or increased their menu offerings. In most cases, new menu offerings involved adding takeout and delivery options.

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ChowNow

MARCH 27, 2024

We’re thrilled to announce a significant leap forward for ChowNow: we’ve acquired Cuboh, a leader in POS integration for restaurants! Our commitment to fair and transparent pricing. The post ChowNow acquires Cuboh and its POS expertise appeared first on ChowNow. ” Why Cuboh? What’s staying the same?

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It just goes to show how important drink pricing and cost management are to maximizing profits. Bar profit margin and pour cost Some high-performing bars can reach higher margins by optimizing their costs and pricing strategies. Keep in mind that certain drinks can be priced higher due to their popularity or unique ingredients.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

There are many, many considerations for delivery (safety, preparation, logistics, POS, etc.). This price is obviously not fixed, so simply enter in your most common fee based on the selling price. We used $3.00, based on an average selling price of $10.00. Delivery and takeout will be a permanent, expanded segment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Rising inflation has impacted businesses for the better part of the year, leading many to modify their menus and increase prices in the face of higher ingredient costs. A point-of-sale (POS) system can streamline the ordering and preparation processes, making it easier to improve service even during peak service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most modern POS services make it easy to set up an online ordering form that integrates with the rest of your operations. The messaging can be informative (“Direct orders are the best way to support our business”) or incentivizing (“Lowest prices guaranteed when you order from our website or app”). Popup Modal.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

This means budgeting, tracking expenses like food and labor, and adjusting pricing to balance profitability with customer appeal. Adjust pricing strategicallymenu engineering can help showcase high-margin items while minimizing reliance on low-profit dishes.

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Lavu

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Lavu is the clear leader in the pizza POS industry, named the #1 POS System for Pizza Restaurants by Forbes for its unmatched features tailored to the unique needs of pizza restaurants. Its dual pricing system allows operators to streamline dine-in and delivery operations while maximizing profits.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Payment processing pricing structures often used by restaurants allow providers to layer their processing fees on top of other underlying debit and credit card fees. Payment processing can be complicated, but with the right partner and pricing structure such as flat rate, interchange plus, or tiered, unnecessary costs can be eliminated.

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ChowNow

MARCH 20, 2025

Managing Orders Across Multiple Platforms is a Nightmare The Problem: Anyone whos tried to manage multiple third-party platforms on a busy night knows this problem all too wellwith multiple systems running independently, staff are forced to juggle tablets, manually enter orders into the POS, and scramble to keep everything running smoothly.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 31, 2022

For example, basic point of sale (POS) systems or integrated restaurant management systems are useful digital tools that enable data reporting. Aside from gathering reports from a POS system, some restaurants will leverage other types of software that are beneficial to improving the restaurant’s performance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2020

POS Software Market. NCR Corporation leads the global restaurant point-of-sale (POS) software market according to research and consulting firm RBR. The Global POS Software 2020 Report conducted by RBR indicates that NCR POS software has 25 percent market share in the restaurant subsegment.

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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. So, train new hires properly by showing them how to use your POS, clearly articulate your customer service standards, and let them shadow other employees. Let’s get started.

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