Food prices shift every week and customer habits change every month. Here’s how to keep up with your real food cost and price your menu with confidence using a restaurant inventory management system. How often are you running your food cost numbers? For many restaurant owners, it’s a quarterly to-do, unless their accountant has a…
Afraid to raise your restaurant menu prices? Here’s how to adjust prices confidently without scaring off your regulars. You know you need to raise your prices. You’ve known for a while. Maybe your chicken costs 5% more than it did last year. Maybe your dairy rep just sent another price increase notice that’s making your…
What is a QSR POS System? A QSR POS system is a point of sale built for the speed, volume, and workflow of quick service restaurants. It handles order entry, payment processing, kitchen communication, and menu management all designed around short ticket times and high customer throughput. That’s the official definition. Here’s what it means…
Switching your restaurant POS feels risky because your last vendor wanted it to feel that way. Here’s how a good switch actually works — and how to make the move without dropping a ticket. You already know your current POS is holding you back. The fees keep creeping up, the support line goes to voicemail,…
The sticker price on a POS quote is almost never the price you actually pay. Here’s what to watch for and what transparent restaurant POS pricing should look like. A new POS company slides into your inbox and promises to beat your current price. Maybe they quote $69 a month. Maybe they toss in a…
Meet Stephanie Rhodes, owner and operator of Agape Juices, a cold-pressed juice bar and clean-food restaurant in Foley, Alabama. Like a lot of restaurant owners, Stephanie spent her first years in business using a POS System that treated her like a number and drowning in a stack of back office work that gobbled up her…
There’s a reason people are treating their morning coffee order like a personal manifesto. Extra shot. Oat milk. Light ice. Vanilla. Half sweet. In a large cup with room. It’s not high maintenance. It’s how people take care of themselves when everything else feels out of their control. Researchers call it the “little luxuries” trend….
Let me ask you something. When your restaurant POS goes down at 11:45am on a Saturday right as the lunch rush walks through the door, who do you call? If the answer is “a 1-800 number and then I wait on the line,” we need to talk. Restaurant owners have been sold a lie for…
Choosing a POS system is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make for your restaurant. And not just because of the price tag. The system you pick will touch every part of your operation, from the first ticket of the morning rush to closing out the drawer at night. The good news: the right questions…
Here’s how it starts. You open your restaurant and grab a POS system to get moving. Then you need online ordering. Then a kitchen display. Then a tool to manage your menu. Before long, you’ve got a different app for everything — and none of them talk to each other. Sound familiar? A patchwork tech…
Improve financial management and cash flow with real-time, clear point of sale reporting October 20, 2023 | Table Needs, a leading POS system provider, announced the launch of enhanced reporting features designed to bring unprecedented clarity and transparency to POS system costs for restaurant, food truck, and cafe/bakery owners. With this new development, customers can…
Table Needs point of sale (POS) system for food trucks increases sales and improves efficiencies at busy food truck festivals and community events Table Needs a leading provider of restaurant technology and business services, announced today a game-changing solution for food trucks operating at festivals and community events. For the first time, food truck owners…
Starting a food truck business is exciting! You’re about to take your love of food and community out on the open road, setting up at a variety of locations, chatting with the locals and sharing those incredible recipes your friends and family can’t stop raving about. But first things first: how are you going to…
Food trucks have long captured the attention of hungry lunch breakers — they first appeared in the States in 1961, when street vendors sold food from carts to workers in New York City. Nowadays, these vibrantly hued vehicles roam streets far and wide, serving everything from tacos to cupcakes, jambalaya and gussied up grilled cheese….
When you’re running a quick-service restaurant, everything needs to run quickly and efficiently. Your customers expect speedy service along with delicious food – and that means that the business-side of your restaurant needs to be speedy, too! The tech you choose to help run your restaurant is a big decision. It’s the power behind every…
Bulky, ugly and oh-so-old-school, cash registers manage to be vestiges in our all-but-cashless society. It’s 2022, though, and the switch is not just wise — it’s almost essential. That’s even the case for your corner snow cone shack where kids pay in quarters. “There is nothing wrong with a good old cash register, but it…
Maintaining a clean, hygienic restaurant is a top priority for any restaurant owner. It’s essential for food safety, healthy staff, happy guests, and getting a good report from the health code folks. Even after implementing 2 years of COVID-related super sanitation practices, a basic daily routine will keep your restaurant clean and help ensure a…
We talk a lot about customer convenience but what about making things easier for the restaurant owner? How do you make running a restaurant less stressful, more streamlined and – dare we say – more fun? Running a restaurant is a constant balancing act where friction in one area immediately impacts all other areas, creating…