restaurant operations
What a Restaurant POS System Costs With Every Add-On Turned On
A restaurant owner's walk through what a POS system costs with every add-on switched on: plans, devices, payroll, hardware and card processing.
Server-Based vs Cloud POS: Why the Diner Moved From Aldelo to Square
What a server-based and a cloud POS each ask of a restaurant owner, and why the Heritage Diner moved from Aldelo to…
How to Calculate Food Cost Percentage
The food cost percentage formula, a worked example, and the counting mistake the Heritage Diner made before it started tracking food cost…
Google Business Profile for a Restaurant: A Setup Checklist
A step-by-step Google Business Profile checklist for restaurants, built on Google's help pages and the menu mistake that cost the Heritage Diner…
Training Restaurant Staff on a New POS System
Practice before live shifts, split training by role, teach permissions and the bad moments, and keep refreshing. What vendor guides say about…
Does a Small Restaurant Need a Website?
A restaurant can live without its own website, but it cannot live with a wrong menu on Google. What Google and Square…
Restaurant Menu Pricing Without Guessing
Plate cost, food cost percentage and contribution margin are the three numbers behind a priced menu. Worked examples from a textbook and…
Online Ordering for a Restaurant: Your Own Site or Delivery Apps
Delivery apps bring orders to the register but keep the customer. Here is how Square syncs one menu and what to ask…
Reading a Restaurant Sales Report
A walk through what a Square restaurant sales report contains: gross and net sales, comps, modifiers, tips, fees, and the one number…
Working in a Family Restaurant
The Heritage Diner is a family business, and this post sticks to the facts of it plus what published sources say about…