Fast Food Industry: How CCS Point of Sale Software Moves Your Business Forward

Running a restaurant has always been viewed as hard work, even though it is rewarding in many ways, the fact remains: you must be diligent on all fronts. Especially in this economy. The business that you manage needs to be covered as efficiently and as profitably as is possible.

Looking for new Growth, Expanding you Menu or Starting a New Location but don’t have the Time?

Probably one of the hardest things in the food service industry is moving forward with new growth. If your staff is not prepared, if you are constantly fixing equipment, if employee-turn-over all keep you from focusing on making new growth or tuning your efficiency, then you can’t grow. And if operational control and reporting isn’t enough; seeing-is-believing with Video Surveillance integration

So the question is, how does point of sale influence business growth in a positive direction?

Inventory Control

POS It will prepare you for your week ahead with inventory control management; with an inventory control you’ll know when you are low on specific items, it will break down your item’s into recipes that are comprised of items you purchase. You will have your re-order sheets ready when you are ready to order, not when you are ready to start reconciling what you need to order. That’s hours of time saved.

There are many anecdotes of how surveillance integrated with inventory control software can provide recovery of lost and stolen merchandise. We worked with one customer whos lobsters came up missing. Using the reconciliation o inventory they were able to shorten the length of days it could have been missing from, from 5 days to 1 day. They could also determine what crate and in what location the crate was supposed to be located. Using that data they could focus on one camera for just a few hours, rather than 5 days worth of time with multiple cameras.

Labor Scheduling

Any business with more than one manager has gaps in their labor scheduling. From time off requests, to special hours employees can work, to counting the maximum hours per week some employees can work, labor scheduling is a chore of any restaurant.

A labor scheduling tool really defines when an employee is supposed to be schedule, it includes time of requests, total hours scheduled, and hours preferred. It put’s stacks of paperwork at your finger tips. Unless you think it’s great to have paperwork: all of your employees fill out time off requests, and their availability and when you put all those papers together, wow you get a lot of information that is shuffled and not that easy to use. This can often cause employees to be scheduled when they are on vacation, or out of town. If you have a busy operation with more than 15 employees, you should strongly consider labor scheduling.

Employee-Turn-Over Training

Training will be reduced by having a point of sale software system that not only is easy to use, but helps the cashier up-charge and upgrade items in the menu. It’s the “you want fry’s with that?” philosophy. Also, you can create templates for the labor scheduling for new trainees. You can send messages to managers, cashiers and other users when they clock in.

Surveillance integration of the point-of-sale with video overlay of the customer transactions has become a really powerful way to track back on dubious transactions and correct both cashier mistakes and protect against accusations by customers.

Projections and Reporting

To many, point of sale is simply that, it’s the management of sales and of day to day operations. To others, reporting, projections and analysis this is where Point of Sale is most important.

We think that once you cover your bases and streamline your operations, your reporting is essential, if not the most important part of the Point of Sale System. We know it is in our business, it’s what defines what you should be doing. It defines how you should grow, how you should operate most efficiently, and it helps you take a break from it all. Reporting and projects are a kind of the extension of your business plan. They help you adjust all of your businesses and operations so you can either relax and take it easy, or grow and expand your business, or both!

Not only should your point of sale software have a variety of reports, it should allow you to create your own, the reports should be flexible, and cover numerous points of you’re your business. Also, they should be easy to use, in one location for easy access and they should be secure from your employee’s prying eyes.