Restaurant Manager POS Reports

Some restaurant owners love data. They love being able to drill down the numbers to crunch and splice them different ways. Others go by their guts. For those of you who aren’t number lovers we have some high level tips for using your POS reports and alerts to make better business decisions in your restaurant. Don’t get overwhelmed by all the data available, instead start with these simple tools:

Part 1: Using reports to reduce fraud and loss

In part one of our three part series we talk about ways to use your POS data to reduce loss in your restaurant. This is one of the most straightforward and obvious uses for POS reports. The desire for cash and inventory control is often the trigger for restaurateurs to start looking for a Sharp pos terminal up-v5500 series manual. Some tools are more straight-forward than others. Here are few you can start using now:

Void, deletion, and no-sale reports– Depending on your restaurant size and number of staff, combing through these reports daily may or may not be a feasible option. Rather than investigate every void or no-sale, there are a couple ways to make this data easier and faster to digest and use.

1. Look at voids by manager. Looking simply at number of voids by manager on duty can give you a good picture of who you need to talk to. Whether or not you have voids set up to require a manager password, if one manager stands out as consistently having more voids, no-sales, deletions, etc. during their shifts, you have actionable data to start a conversation.

2. Create alerts for outliers. Maybe at first you do want to look at and investigate every void, no-sale, or deletion. But after a while you may find that a small number of these are normal and you don’t want to spend your time on them anymore. Once you have established an appropriate baseline, it is very easy to create an alert parameter. Choose an appropriate number of voids, deletions, or no-sales for each manager or staff member and use Restaurant Manager POS alerts to be notified in near real time if anyone exceeds this number.

Inventory control reports- If you struggle to find meaning in your inventory control reports you’re not alone. Inventory control is one of the hardest to manage tools. It takes a lot of accuracy and diligence to do it right. If inbound PO’s are not quickly and correctly entered into the POS, inventory counts will be off, making inventory reports useless. Restaurant Manager POS inventory control offers a simpler tool with stock counter reports.