Dealing with low employee morale can be difficult for any business, but in the fast-paced world of restaurants, it can threaten to destroy both the experience of your guests and the longevity of your employees. With employee acquisition costs and turnover higher than ever, here are tips for avoiding low morale in the first place:
According to PAR CTO Chas Wurster, the average data breach costs $4 million and impacts 25,000 customer records. If you haven’t seen 2020 and Beyond: 10 Restaurant Cybersecurity Best Practices for Every Concept, you can view the full webinar here. Here are 3 facts to keep in mind before you watch: 1 – Big Investments
The acquisition of Restaurant Magic this month will increase PAR’s cloud restaurant offerings by providing more inventory management, food management, labor & scheduling, and reporting & analytics solutions to support back-of-house operations. Restaurant Magic’s Data Central Management Suite runs on Microsoft’s .Net global application framework, meaning you won’t experience compatibility issues when integrating it with
Even with more technologies to expedite orders, quick service restaurant employees are getting frustrated. In 2018, QSRs experienced a 150% turnover rate, which MIT’s Technology Review reports as being the worst since record keeping began over two decades ago. This seemingly impossible statistic means that even the people hired to replace those who left their
Food waste is costly. According to the USDA, food waste makes up 30-40% of the total US supply. This costs roughly $1.61 billion a year. At Restaurant Magic Software we want to help reduce food waste. We have identified 5 common reasons for excess food waste, and what you can do about it. With a
With the exception of fine dining, most every restaurant segment (QSR, fast casual, casual restaurant) is designing for delivery, for more even meals consumed in homes or places of business, or at the soccer field. As reported in QSR recently, 30 percent of orders for Firehouse Subs locations in South Florida came through
You may not think about it this way, but the guests who enter your stores and pass through your drive-thru lanes bring you more than money and huge appetites. With every transaction, they could be turning over to you their names, email and physical addresses, birth dates, bank account information and their credit card numbers,
The restaurant industry is booming. Eateries of all types are popping up left and right daily. So how are restaurants classifying themselves these days? What distinguishes one restaurant concept from another? QSR Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) is the official restaurant terminology for a “fast food” establishment, with well-known names such as Subway, McDonald’s, Burger King,
For years, POS systems were designed to run inside the four-walls of a single restaurant. These PC-based systems were mostly “bolted on” tools that emulated the enterprise capabilities of legacy client-server environments. They weren’t designed for the complex needs of a multi-unit restaurant operation. Enter Cloud POS. A Cloud POS is a solution in which
Cloud-based POS software like PAR Brink POS helps restaurant owners manage multiple locations in real-time using secure technology to provide access to important data. When you own multiple restaurants, how do you check daily sales, reorder stock, manage employees, and update menus? If your answer involves getting in and out of a car, visiting multiple
Whether you own a convenience store, restaurant, or grocery store, you understand that day-to-day operations can be hectic. There’s an infinite number of factors that can add stress to your day, such as inventory control, scheduling concerns, sales and more. It’s time to invest in a product that eases those concerns and gets you concentrating on what
Mobile point of sale systems, or mPOS, can create on-demand sales reports, manage inventory in real-time and help manage employees from a remote location. There is no question that point of sale technology helps businesses conduct sales more efficiently. Instead of trying to track and account for handwritten sales slips, orders are now easily placed and delivered effortlessly