How Restaurant POS Systems Improve Restaurant Operations
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A restaurant POS speeds up taking orders, passing them to the kitchen, taking payment and knowing what the business earned. How much of that you need depends on whether you serve at tables or at a counter.
Where a restaurant POS helps
- Order taking: orders are entered once and not rewritten.
- Kitchen communication: order tickets or a kitchen display replace shouted orders and lost slips.
- Tables and bills: table status, split bills and combined bills.
- Menu control: modifiers such as "no onions" and prices that change once.
- Cost control: ingredient stock and recipe costing show food cost per dish.
- Cash control: shift reconciliation for cash and mobile payments.
Counter service versus table service
A cafe or takeaway counter mostly needs quick checkout, receipts, stock of drinks and packaging and cash-up. A sit-down restaurant also needs tables, kitchen tickets, modifiers and bill splitting. Be honest with yourself about which you are before comparing systems.
Questions to ask a provider
- Does it support tables and kitchen tickets, or only counter checkout?
- How are modifiers handled?
- Can I track ingredient stock and cost per dish?
- How does it handle M-Pesa payments?
Where BluNext POS fits
BluNext POS suits counter-service food businesses today: fast checkout, receipts, stock for drinks and packaged ingredients, shifts and permissions. It does not yet include tables, kitchen display, modifiers, recipe costing or bill splitting. We state this on our restaurant page and restaurant features page.
See it in practice
BluNext POS is built in Kenya by BluChip Solutions. Request a demo or talk to our team about your business.