Let’s continue “Part 1: Restaurant Marketing: Using Mobile Phones to Sell Pizza,” now we are about to discuss here how mobile phones can be used to market a much larger audience. Learn how you can properly use mobile marketing to double your sales, make customers come back and have an edge over your competitors. Combine this great marketing idea with your restaurant POS system and you’ll surely increase your profits!

Embedding Google Maps on your website

To add your business to Google Maps:
• Go to the Google Local Business Center, then click “Add/Edit Your Business” link.
• Before you create a new listing, it’s important to verify that your business isn’t already listed. One way of avoiding duplication by searching for your business name within your city.
• If your business pops up, choose “Claim Your Business,” but if it isn’t, then continue signing up with Local Business Center.
• There are two options to receive your personal identification number (PIN), either by phone or by mail. Your PIN will be entered to your account activating your listing, it can take up to a month of waiting.
• Your landing page allows you to provide an interactive means for customers to map their way to your location. To locate you, all they have to do is click on a link within your Web site and they are taken to an accurate road map with directions. Continue reading ‘Restaurant Marketing: Using Mobile Phones to Sell Pizza — Part 2’ »

How to use your Restaurant Point of Sale System to control labor cost

Not so long ago, controlling labor cost for food-service establishments was done by just going with the flow. Effective labor control meant having just enough people on hand during a rush to keep the operation running smoothly, and by sending people home as quickly as possible as the rush descends.

Restaurant managers kept track of business from previous weeks in order to make projections of future sales, and then laboriously converted those numbers into an employee schedule. And at night when the restaurant closes, the manager sits down on his desk calculating time cards for the day’s labor percentage where success or failure of those efforts is determined.

Luckily today, these manual tasks are eliminated by using a restaurant point of sale system where managers no longer need to do things by hand. Continue reading ‘Using Restaurant Point of Sale System To Control Labor Cost’ »

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Point of Sale Systems: How you can control labor cost for your restaurant

Before the age of POS systems, controlling labor in a food-service establishment was mostly an instinctive process. Having an effective labor control meant by being able to manage your staff during a rush to keep an ongoing operation and by sending them home respectively as the rush slowly descend.

In order to make projections of future sales, restaurant manager keeps track of their business for the past weeks and converted those numbers into an staff schedule. The success or failure of those efforts was determined at at night when the restaurant closes, the manager sat down with a stack of time cards and calculated the day’s labor percentage.

Luckily today, manual tasks such as this is eliminated by using a restaurant point of sale (POS) system where managers no longer need to do things by hand. Continue reading ‘Point of Sale Systems: How you can control labor cost for your restaurant’ »

When POS hasn’t been introduced yet, controlling labor in a food-service establishment was mostly an instinctive process. Effective labor control meant having just enough people on hand during a rush to keep the operation running smoothly, and by sending people home as quickly as possible as the rush descends.

To effectively make projections of future sales, restaurant manager keeps track of their business for the past few weeks and converted those numbers into an employee schedule. And when the day is done, the manager sits down on his desk calculating time cards for the day’s labor percentage where success or failure of those efforts will be determined.

Luckily today, manual tasks such as this is eliminated by using a restaurant point of sale (POS) system where managers no longer need to do things by hand. Continue reading ‘Point of Sale Systems: How to control labor cost?’ »

When POS wasn’t still around, controlling labor in a food-service establishment was mostly an instinctive process. Effective labor control meant having just enough people on hand during a rush to keep the operation running smoothly, then sending people home as quickly as possible as the rush died down.

Restaurant managers kept track of business from previous weeks in order to make projections of future sales, and then laboriously converted those numbers into an employee schedule. The success or failure of those efforts was determined at at night when the restaurant closes, the manager sat down with a stack of time cards and calculated the day’s labor percentage. Continue reading ‘Point of Sale (POS) Systems: Controlling Labor Cost’ »

Using New Technology To Enhance Your Restaurant’s Performance

We are living in a new age of immens technological advances. Cars are parking themselves, animals are being cloned, and households are being controlled by a remote control. Your business needs to be updated with technology or you’ll get left behind in the competition. If you are in business, we have suggestion that will help you with your steps.

Amidst the era of ideas, a business can not spend a great amount of time on the basic operational and record-keeping needs. A point of sales system (POS), computer software and hardware network, that can easily record sales as they are occurring. Continue reading ‘Improving Your Business: Use New Technology To Enhance Restaurant Performance’ »

Restaurant POS Mobile Marketing: Selling Pizzas Just Like Hot Cakes!

As of today, there’s a huge increase of people depending on their cellphones to connect to the internet. From café tables to New York subways, people use their iPhones, Blackberries and other mobile devices to locate places they wan to go, from laundry cleaners, boutiques to sweets shops.

While many businesses have an online presence, most are unaware of their potential reach across the mobile Internet. Globally, small businesses that have created mobile Web sites experiences a competitive advantage over those still in the dark ages of mobile marketing. Continue reading ‘Using Cellular Phones To Sell Pizza — Part 1’ »

Using Cellular Phones To Sell Pizza — Part 2

Previously, we’ve discussed about how restaurant POS mobile phones can be used to market a much larger audience. In here, we’ll further discuss how you can properly use mobile marketing to increase your customers, sales, and give you one step ahead of your competitors.

Embedding Google Maps

Want to add your business to Google Maps? Follow these simple steps:
• Go to the Google Local Business Center, then click “Add/Edit Your Business” link.
• Before you create a new listing, first verify that your business isn’t already listed. To avoid duplication is to search for your business name within your city. Continue reading ‘How to Use Cellular Phones To Sell Pizza — Part 2’ »

Part 1: Using Mobile Phones To Sell Pizza

Selling Pizza Through Mobiles Phones Can Be A Great Restaurant Point of Sale Marketing Tool!

As of today, more and more people depend on their cellphones to access the internet. From coffee house tables to New York subways, many people are using their iPhones, Blackberries and other mobile devices to locate places they wan to visit, from laundry cleaners, boutiques to sweets shops.

Because an online presence is very important for most businesses, most of them are unaware of the potential market reach they can get from mobile internet. Throughout the world, small businesses that have created mobile Web sites experiences a competitive advantage over those still in the dark ages of mobile marketing. Continue reading ‘Use Mobile Phones To Sell Pizza’ »

Part 2: Using Mobile Phones To Sell Pizza

We’ve discussed before (in Part 1: Using Mobile Phones To Sell Pizza) about how mobile phones can be used to market a much larger audience. In here, we’ll further discuss how you can properly use mobile marketing to increase your customers, sales, and give you one step ahead of your competitors. This is a great additional tool to your restaurant point of sale system!

Embedding Google Maps on your website

If you want to add your business to Google Maps:
• Visit the Google Local Business Center “Add/Edit Your Business” page.
• Before registering your business, make sure that it isn’t already listed. Avoid duplicate listings by searching for your business name within your city.
• If you can see that your business is already listed, click “Claim Your Business” but if not, carry on with the procedure of adding a new listing.
• You will receive a personal identification number (PIN) which you can either choose to receive by mail of phone. You will then use this PIN to activate your listing, it can take up to 1 month so just relax.
• Your landing page allows you to provide an interactive means for customers to map their way to your location. To locate you, all they have to do is click on a link within your Web site and they are taken to an accurate road map with directions. Continue reading ‘Use Mobile Phones To Sell Pizza — Part 2’ »