How to maximize your restaurant's peak hours?

As a restaurant owner, the most common challenge you may face would be - "how to fit as many customers as I can in my restaurant?". Space constraints are becoming a bigger headache, especially with Covid19 safe distancing regulations. Increasing your table turnover rate is your best shot at accommodating more customers during peak hours.

Here are some "hacks" to increase your table turnover rate to capitalise and generate more revenue during your peak hours.

How to Increase Table Turnover Rate?

Table Management System

This is especially important for dine in restaurants. Knowing which tables are occupied at a glance is important as this will allow you to quickly assign available to waiting customers. A good table management system will also display the amount of time each table has been occupied by a customer, which will assist in managing customers who have been occupying the seat long after they have finished they meals.

Table management systems should also be able to cater to multiple billing types, like split billing, combined table billing, or splitting tables.

Quick Order Entry

Keying in orders taken can be a time consuming task. A good POS system will help to expedite this process and not slow it down. when getting an POS system, you take note on the number of steps before you can send orders to your kitchen, or tender a bill. The more clicks required, the slower your ordering process.

This will impede your staff's order entering pace, and slow down table turnover rates.

Customisable Shortcut Buttons

To speed up order entry, customisable shortcut buttons are essential. These shortcuts can be used for adding of remarks, modifiers, side dishes, promotion shortcuts, and discount shortcuts, etc. A POS system that has these shortcut button options will help speed up your order entry time, and in turn, speed up table turnover rates.

QR Ordering System

QR ordering systems is the best way to help increase table turnover rates. With a scan of a QR code, your customers can pre-order in the queue, reducing ordering time at the table, self order at the tables, and these orders will be sent straight to your POS system.

Not only do you effectively cut out manual order taking and entry into your POS system, but also reduce dependance on manpower for order taking as well. Click here to find out more about a reliable and industry proven QR ordering system.

A Reliable POS System that Boosts Productivity for Better Table Turnovers

These effective "hacks" for better table turnover rates can be performed by MEGAPOS POS system, a reliable and proven, feature rich but easy to use POS system to help you boost productivity for more revenue and lower operation costs.

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