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Leveraging POS Systems to Future-Proof Your Restaurant and Maximize Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

At the end of 2021, four out of five restaurants reported facing a staffing shortage due to reduced operating hours and dining capacity. To combat these obstacles among countless others, leaning on point-of-sale (POS) solutions can empower restaurants to quickly leverage new features to maximize profits in a fluctuating service economy.

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Restaurants Can Leverage Their POS System to Make the Most Out of Outdoor Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

According to the National Restaurant Association's 2021 State of the Restaurant Industry report , 70 percent of consumers reported they would likely take a table outside if the conditions were right. Here are some of the ways restaurant owners can leverage a holistic and data-driven POS system to optimize their outdoor dining operations.

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Integrated Marketplaces Bridge The Technology Gap In The Restaurant Ecosystem

The Restaurant Times

The POS systems become the anchor for many of these transformations. percent between 2021 to 2028. While restaurants continue their recovery in 2021, cloud-based platforms like ours have taken measures to introduce new features beneficial for planning the recovery roadmap for restaurateurs. billion by 2028.

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The restaurant labor shortage: how we got here and a 2023 update

OpenTable

Vaccines and relaxed pandemic restrictions in 2021 spurred restaurant owners to hire at above-average wages , but open positions remained high. There were an average of 500,000 more job openings than new hires in the hospitality sector per month between October 2021 and March 2022. The gap between supply and demand continued.

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The Ultimate Guide To Restaurant Profit Margin

The Restaurant Times

In fact, according to reports , the net profit margins across the restaurant industry decreased from 16% in Q2 2021 to 9.59% in Q2 2022. This data should be easily accessible from your restaurant’s point-of-sale (POS) system. It is well known that the hospitality sector has lower profit margins than other market segments.

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Surprising Ways that Tech Can Help Evolve Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are the cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing. After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. Partender 3.

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2023 Outlook: Trends and Challenges Restaurants Will See, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

"In 2023, we’ll see AI becoming more widely integrated into restaurant operations spanning front and back of house. Especially for the QSR and fast casual markets in which customization drives value for customers, standard POS systems won’t be able to keep up with heightened demand.