Innovations Your Restaurant Should Adopt

If you have been running a restaurant or are setting up a restaurant, you may realise that operational efficiency is vital for your business to maximize profits. Luckily, with today’s technological advancements, there are solutions in the market which help you optimize your operations. 

What is operational efficiency and why is it important for your restaurant?

Operational efficiency being able to get the most output(work done, revenue), while minimizing input(time taken to complete a task, human resource, operational cost). By optimizing your operations, you are able to turn your restaurant into a profitable, scalable business that outgrows your competitors.

Enhanced POS System

A POS system is an essential component of your restaurant’s operations as it centralizes your operations into one solution. A good POS system enables you to easily manage orders taken by staff or orders placed by customers via self ordering devices from one POS. It saves you time cross checking on orders  and avoids getting things complicated especially during peak periods. 

Apart from centralzing your front end order management, a good POS system also takes care of your back of the house operations like kitchen printing or kitchen display, inventory management and also provides you with insightful data analytics which allows you to drill down into different aspects of your business to make timely business decisions.

The POS system you get for your restaurant should also be easily integratable with third party solutions like accounting softwares, cashless payment terminals to help you achieve maximum productivity.

With all that being said, a POS system should remain easy to use and robust for you and your staff so that you can spend more time focusing on developing strategies to sell more.

Durable and Energy-efficient Equipment

Durable and energy-efficient equipment is a smart buy. To your surprise, they may not require a bigger upfront investment and will help you save on constant hardware maintenance and utility bills.

Thus, allowing you to reap the benefits of a lower operating and maintenance cost.

Smart Kitchen Equipment

Boost your kitchen efficiency with smart kitchen equipment like kitchen display solutions, automated fryers and dishwashers. Automated smart equipment like automated fryers and dishwasher will help you reduce spending on manpower deployed to do repetitive tasks. Your existing manpower can be reallocated to other areas of operations.

Kitchen display solutions help your kitchen staff get organised. It allows your staff to view all orders at once and decide on food preparation strategies like cooking a certain dish in bulk. After each dish is done, they can strike it off with a simple touch on the kitchen display tablet to prevent confusion. An organised kitchen is an efficient kitchen.

Self Ordering Solutions

Self ordering solutions like QR ordering and self ordering kiosks are a common sight in restaurants and any F&B outlets nowadays. A main reason for the rise in popularity of self ordering in F&B outlets can be attributed to the savings in labour cost. 

Traditionally, F&B businesses have to hire more to facilitate order taking when their customer volumes grew and this greatly impacted their profitability due to high labour costs.

With self ordering solutions, how quickly you receive orders from customers is not tied directly to the number of order taking staff you have, as your customers are able to self order digitally whenever they are ready. Self ordering helps businesses break their ordering bottle neck especially during peak hours. F&B operators can receive orders from multiple customers simultaneously, skipping in queue ordering and table by table ordering, opening up the flow to intake more orders.

A lesser known benefit of getting self order solutions would be how self ordering solutions help increase your average order size. Self ordering solutions use digital menus to present your menu items to your customers. Digital menus allow you to attach appetizing images to each menu item. This helps your customers better understand your menu, making it easier for them to order. 

On top of that, digital menus allow you to preset automatic add-on suggestions to upsell to your customers when they are ordering. Digital menus are also updated in real time, which means that you can roll out new dishes and promotions on a timely basis. These benefits of getting a self ordering solution will constitute a higher average order amount, thus, increasing your revenue.

If you are interested in getting a future proof, comprehensive and robust POS system for your restaurant, drop your contact details below and we will be happy to arrange a free demo session with you.