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Five Ways to Use POS Data to Forecast Holiday Demand for Your Restaurant

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The holiday season is a huge calendar event in the restaurant industry, with bookings booming as guests look to let their hair down and enjoy a festive feast. Analyze Previous Holiday Sales Data Past sales data is invaluable when it comes to planning the upcoming season.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory. In 2025, restaurants need to have a plan in place that ensures they are effectively managing inventory and redirecting unused, still edible food to donations.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

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Point-of-sale systems needed seamless integration with online ordering platforms and third-party delivery services, while customer relationship management tools facilitated personalized marketing and loyalty programs. For restaurant operators, this digital shift necessitated the adoption of integrated technologies.

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Six Strategies to Improve Restaurant Efficiency

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For example, you can review food-to-table delivery times, the number of bookings and diners, or itemized food and drink sales figures. Electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) terminals that send new checks straight through to the kitchen. Tablets to manage restaurant bookings for maitre d' or front-of-house staff.

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Evolving Technology for Restaurant Operations

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Orders from online channels and delivery partners had to be manually entered into its previous Point-of-Sale (POS) system, and manually delivered to the kitchen. They also had a tremendous amount of data from disparate sources with no way to efficiently aggregate and analyze inventory, customer preferences and more.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Increasing Role of AI in Restaurants

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AI Assistants : Conversational AI can assist customers in communicating with restaurant systems for booking a table, adding a guest to a waitlist, ordering meals, or even answering common questions like ‘do you have vegan food as well?’ Today, AI is accessible to everyone, and there are smaller ways to use it to your advantage.

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Don’t Get Burned By The IRS – Tax Tips for Restaurant Owners

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By the time you manage inventory, staffing, customer demand and narrow profit margins, the last thing you want to think about is the IRS. A – Accurate Records Perform daily reconciliations of cash registers and point-of-sale machines. You should only have one set of books and it should be reconciled to the tax return.