Restaurant Management System What are the 4 main offerings (Components) of the Restaurant Management System? Point of Sales - front of house Inventory and Menu management systems- back of the house Reservations and table managements - front of the house Back office applications and interfaces Why POS? The physical location at which goods are sold to customers. Input and output devices used by restaurant employees to accomplish their daily activities. What are the functions of the POS
Premium Electronic commerce Marketing Point of sale
talked about in the chapter we studied. Hoosier Burger : case 2 The owners of the Hoosier Burger identified their project by all the issues they were having with the restaurant. Some of the issues they were struggling with here things like point of sales and customer service as far as how long people were waiting to get their food. Inventory control was also a concern because when you are in the restaurant business knowing what you have in stock and ready to use if very important. Supply and demand
Premium Supply and demand Hamburger Customer service
differentiate Zara’s use of IT? Technology investment should be targeted at the points in the value chain where the impact is most significant. If we look at the value chain of the fashion retail industry(considering a manufacturing value chain)‚ the key activities or the high value adding primary activities are: Marketing and Sales(it’s a customer facing industry and it doesn’t matter how efficient the operations are if the sales don’t happen): Zara doesn’t advertise its products -> the advertising expenditure
Premium Variable cost Costs Cost
and 2cm Right margin. Font is to be Times New Roman 12 point(body text) single space‚ left aligned Price Chopper is a chain of 80 24-hour supermarkets in New England. The stores vary considerably in size‚ but average about 12 checkout counters. It is headquartered in Shenectady‚ in upper New York State. During the last few years‚ Price Chopper has applied information technology (IT) very aggressively‚ particularly to its Point of Sale (POS) operations. It is worthy of a case study both because
Premium Receipt NCR Corporation Retailing
Part 1: Executive Summary This case focuses on the Spanish retail giant‚ Inditex and how its largest retail chain Zara has been so successful through its simple business model of speed‚ flexibility‚ and high fashion. As of 2002‚ Inditex had six separate chains: Zara‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Pull & Bear‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ and Oysho. Each chain operates independently and is responsible for its own strategy‚ product design‚ sourcing and manufacturing‚ distribution‚ retail. Zara is by far the largest
Premium Point of sale Operating system
Zara’s success is based on a business system that depends on vertical integration‚ in-house production‚ quick response‚ one centralized distribution centre‚ and low advertising cost all of which made it so successful thus far. The following are the points that summarize the case Zara: It for fast fashion. * Zara’s POS terminals are currently being run on a DOS-based system (which is barely supported anymore) * The current culture places importance on human conversation-based fieldwork‚ intuitive
Premium Fashion Point of sale Retailing
In cases where a shop maintains all data manually‚ its manager must reconcile each sales receipt with every piece of physical inventory. Depending on the size of the establishment and how many different products are sold‚ this can be a daunting and time consuming task. If that same store‚ however‚ used a computerized point of sale‚ POS‚ system‚ the master inventory list would be updated electronically each time a sale is made. The only thing a manager would have to do each day is print out the report
Premium Error Business Point of sale
PriceWaterhouseCooopers selected a small program that they have had good experience with for these this types of business and installed CounterPoint by Radiant System to replace the existing POS system. CounterPoint provides an Point-of-Sale module‚ or POS module‚ to automate all retails sales made‚ in detail. This system automatically reports this data to the accounting modules‚ as well as manages all credit/debit card transactions made in the stores. This helps to eliminate data entry errors by limiting the
Premium Balance sheet Accounting software Marketing
by Zara has been very effective and very easy to maintain‚ which as a result has persuaded the company to continue without any change in the present system so far. The problem that Zara faces right now is that the system that they use‚ P-O-S (Point of Sale terminals)‚ runs on DOS which Microsoft does not support anymore and any hardware change in the POS terminal will not be compatible with the current POS software. Although the sense of urgency for the change may not be that high‚ investing in
Premium Decision making Time Point of sale
buying the basic goods. ASDA will only be affected by government increases. As most supermarkets‚ ASDA uses Electronic Point of Sale‚ adapting a loyalty scheme. When EPOS was first introduced ASDA decided that there was too much information being stored and they did not really required the customer’s personal information. “ We will continue using electronic point-of-sale systems to analize customer’s behaviour.” Bishop Auckland has is opening a new store which has spent 16 millions to cover up
Premium Disability Luxury good Point of sale