Guide to Choosing a Restaurant POS System 2022

Starting your first restaurant or looking for a new POS system for your restaurant? In this article, we aim to provide you with a guide choosing a restaurant POS system in 2022.

Here are some of the key areas of focus when looking for a restaurant POS system:

• Easy to use
• Kitchen printers/kitchen display integration
• Integrates with self-ordering solutions
• Integrates with food delivery platforms
• Stringent security controls

Easy to use

This is one of the most important requirements when looking for a restaurant POS system. An easy to use POS system has a clean and organized interface that allows you to bill with minimal clicks. 

Ease of use should not only apply to a POS system’s front end ordering interface but also its backend. The backend interface should be well organized and intuitive enough that staff without much IT experience can easily navigate through it.

Kitchen printers/kitchen display integration

Having an efficient and organized kitchen operation is essential for your restaurant’s success. Unorganized kitchen operations lead to slow service time and more food wastage.

Hence, getting a POS system that is able to itemize orders & send them to respective kitchen printers, sticker printers or kitchen displays is essential.

Integrates with self-ordering solutions

Self-ordering solutions like QR ordering & self-ordering kiosks are popular among many F&B businesses that offer dine-in.

With POS and self-ordering solution integration, your customers can self-order and orders will be digitally sent into the respective kitchen sections for preparation.

Adopting a POS system with integration possibilities with QR ordering & self-ordering kiosks helps to future proof your restaurant, helping you to gain a competitive edge over competitors.

Integrates with food delivery platforms

Food delivery platforms like GrabFood are adopted by almost every restaurant. While it helps to reach more customers online and adds a revenue stream through food delivery orders, managing orders and menus can be tedious as it is done on a separate device.

With a POS system that integrates with your food delivery platform, incoming orders will be sent directly to your POS system, then into respective kitchen sections. This removes chances of human error and the hassle of re-entering food delivery orders into the POS system.

Menu management will also be centralized through a single solution so that you or your restaurant staff will not have to update menus twice (on the POS system and food delivery platform device)

Stringent security controls

The POS system that your restaurant adopts should have tight security features to help safeguard you revenue. Especially as most of your inventory are consumables, it presents more loopholes for employee fraud.

These are some of the key security features your restaurant POS system should have:

• Unique staff login ID
• Role-based access
• Reports on discounts & FOC bills
• Audit trails

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If you are looking to get a new POS system for your restaurant, click here to schedule a demo on MEGAPOS restaurant solutions.