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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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How To Do Restaurant Week the Right Way

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The event celebrates another year of connecting hungry guests with discounted meals at restaurants all over the country, and 2022 is shaping up to be a different experience than in years past. Keep things running smoothly by using an integrated point-of-sale system that allows you to do everything in one place.

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Restaurant Staff Performance Management Techniques

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Modern point-of-sale systems will generate analytics on each employee so you can create actionable insights. Installing the right point-of-sale system in your restaurant helps management evaluate staff members performance. Managing the performance of your staff isn’t an annual event. Staff Inspiration.

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Best Prep for Super Bowl Off-Premise Programs

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The first step in this process should be analyzing the data from their point-of-sale system – labor costs, game days sales and more. Thiscan be done by offering discounts or special promotions to customers who have visited the restaurant multiple times during the event.

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How Restaurant Operators Can Defend Against Ransomware

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While customer data was not exposed, the company’s operations, including corporate email and point of sale systems, were affected. Further segment your restaurant networks to isolate POS systems, back-office PCs, and file servers, helping to prevent spread of malware in the event of an attack. What Is Ransomware?

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

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Many restaurant owners had believed they would be covered in the event of something like the pandemic, and found themselves without a safety net. Meaning restaurant management is having to hire more employees to do the same job as they did with less workers in the past during pre-COVID events. This is due to market availability.

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Dining In During a Pandemic: The Do’s and Don’ts for Restaurant Operators

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Social distancing can only go so far—there are still many shared devices that guests and staff have to touch, including point-of-sale devices, payment PIN pads, kiosks and kitchen monitors. The pandemic may have served up more disruption and chaos than any other event in recent history.