A specialty grocery store carries products that are marketed to specific dietary niches. What you carry in your store is not like the groceries carried in your everyday grocery stores, and you need a POS system to fit this. Here are four features your specialty grocery POS should have in order for your business to…
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Many factors are responsible for the major changes taking place in the U.S. payments landscape, but one of the biggest comes down to three little letters: EMV. If you’re at all responsible for EMV acceptance for your restaurant, you’ve no doubt been hearing and reading about the October 2015 liability shift that has already given…
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While liquor stores offer big opportunities to achieve solid profit margins, these operations also pose specific challenges. In addition to the requirements that all retailers face, liquor store operators also must pay close attention to inventory control, age verification, and security/loss prevention precautions. Fortunately, today’s point of sale (POS) solutions combine many of the most…
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Customers are attracted to your bar for the killer atmosphere, great drinks, and friendly service. But you know that running a successful bar takes a lot more than that. You must also ensure your bar takes care of customers, manages inventory, efficiently serves tables, and protects its profit. Balancing all of those tasks while still…
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Customer service is the lifeblood of the table service industry. In order to provide the best experience for your customers, you need to have table management under control, be able to automate kitchen functions, easily manage inventory, and optimize your labor. With a high quality table service POS system, you’ll be able to manage all…
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Customer satisfaction is the heartbeat of any restaurant. This is no less true for quick service restaurants. Customers stopping at a quick service drive-thru or popping into the dining room are looking for good food, fast service, and affordable meal prices. To succeed in the quick service business, your restaurant has to offer all three…
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According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), the number of data breaches in the U.S. reached a high of 783 in 2014. The ITRC also found that since 2005, there have been 5,029 reported data breach incidents, which involved more than 675 million estimated records. There’s a lot of confusion about what exactly the…
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With fast paced environments, restaurants run at a high risk of errors. Unfortunately, errors are bound to happen to some extent. It is when they become so prominent that they being eating up profits, you have a problem. However, with the right restaurant technologies in place, error and food waste can be minimized, your average…
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Retail and hospitality businesses increasingly depend on their point-of-sale (POS) systems for much more than simply handling and recording transactions. As POS technologies have grown more sophisticated, they have taken on additional “jobs,” ranging from tracking inventory to timekeeping to managing prices and promotions. And even with all these additional responsibilities, businesses still rely on…
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Mobile POS is a hot topic right now among retailers and restaurateurs. In fact, if you’re a restaurant owner and haven’t considered the ways that mobile POS could benefit your restaurant, you might be missing out. Mobile POS won’t replace your existing POS system, but it will enhance it by improving customer service and boosting…
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