Six Steps to Improve Your Restaurant’s Point of Sale Operation Costs

3 Min Read By Paul Goetz

Outside of the eight-top burner and the kitchen dishwasher, the point-of-sale system is the most critical piece of technology in your restaurant. While there are significant costs associated with adopting a new POS, the payoff of a new system can greatly enhance your restaurant’s success.

Cloud-based solutions can actually deliver 2.1 times the return on investment of traditional on-site solutions.

According to a report by Nucleus Research, cloud-based solutions can actually deliver 2.1 times the return on investment of traditional on-site solutions. Cloud systems not only have better mobility (like your servers being able to perform credit card transactions tableside via a tablet), but they also allow less downtime than a desktop system. Further, your customers and your restaurant will enjoy added security from off-site servers that have constant security and malware protection.

Despite the benefits of switching to a cloud-based POS, cost is still the biggest obstacle to adopting a…