Mobile POS for Restaurants

The face of the culinary world changes daily. There are new techniques, innovations, and trends. To keep up with these trends, you have to also keep up with technology. Imagine the ability to take your new creations to a unique location or to offer in home personal chef services catered by your restaurant. With the use of a mobile POS, or point of sale, system you can do just that. If you haven’t considered a mobile option, then take a moment to familiarize yourself with the benefits and options this type of system would open for you.

Benefits of a Mobile POS

Your restaurant is probably like many others. You advertise for customers to come in for either dine-in or carry-out dining options. In some cases you may offer catering or delivery, but for the most part you offer an evening out experience. With the use of a mobile POS you can expand your options. Do you have something on your menu that customers crave? Consider the possibilities of offering that dish made to order in their homes as a personal chef experience. While your chef is with the customer, the customer may decide to order something else. With a mobile POS device, this addition could be added and paid for immediately on the spot increasing your overall income for that personal catering option. By offering your restaurant more options, extended range, and on the spot ordering wherever you are you can increase your income and your marketing reach.

Features of a Mobile POS

An obvious feature of a mobile POS is the ability to use it anywhere. You can use it during catered events, Expos, food truck gatherings, and festivals. They give you the ability to take transactions and orders no matter where you are or how far you are from the restaurant. Another feature benefits the accounting side of your business. A mobile device will connect to the main office of your restaurant. This means your managers or your accounting staff can access real time sales information for the establishment and any outside catering events. An added feature, for most devices, is the ability to have multiple mobile devices out at once. This offers the ability for multiple events on the same day while leaving the restaurant open to regular guests.

Restaurants Currently Using Mobile POS Devices

Major restaurants around the world use these types of devices on iPads, handheld devices, and tablets to assist their wait staff and chefs on the go. One of the most famous restaurants using this option is Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen. Open only a short time each year, the restaurant made famous by the reality show of the same name, uses the devices for deliveries as well as food truck catering options. Other better known franchise and restaurants using mobile devices now include Chilies, Starbucks and Subway.

For many restaurant owners, the benefit of opening the main location while having multiple mobile locations up and running is worth the cost of a mobile POS system. If you want a new income and marketing option for your restaurant, consider this device option today.