It's not news that a Restaurant POS System can help your food service business thrive in three main ways:

• Increase your sales
• Improve your customers’ experience
• Help you make better business decisions

But these days that is just the starting point. With so many options of Point of Sale Systems to select from, a system that doesn't provide you more than that is not going to help you take your business to another level. Venues from food trucks to fine dining restaurants now use their POS System as the main operations hub for their business.

Get to know the 10 Benefits of having a POS System

Take a look how a POS System that has been tailored to serve the needs of restaurants and food service establishments like Xena’s Restaurant POS can give your restaurant the special touch that will make all the difference in your customer experience and in your management routine:

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1. Xena Restaurant POS can speed up every transaction

It's all about efficiency: serve more customers in less time. 

XENA POS System helps to increase the speed of each transaction, from taking the order to making it and delivering it. It is built from the ground up to be the fastest restaurant management system, easy to use and quick to learn.

With Xena's built in Kitchen Display System (KDS), you can streamline communications between front-of-house and kitchen, reduce paper clutter, eliminate communication mistakes and track service lead-times. To find out more, check out Why use a Restaurant Kitchen Display System

Xena Restaurant POS Takeaway Mode for Quick Service Restaurants and over the counter businesses is designed and built to process orders faster than any other POS system, enabling high volume sales business to serve their customers efficiently and securely without any system slowdown.

Xena Restaurant POS Dine In Mode for Full Service Restaurants  offers you a range of tools to run your business more efficiently. From flexible floor, section and table layouts to table-side ordering tablet mode, kitchen management, one-click split bills, loyalty programs and many other features, Xena POS System enables you to delight your customers and grow your business.

2. Xena Restaurant POS can help you understand and push your most profitable menu items

If you don't have a POS System in your restaurant, how can you be certain which of your menu items are the top sellers and which are the most profitable? (hint: they aren't always the same)

With Xena POS you have access to real data and it will gives you an all new vision of your business. This way you can analyse what the numbers are showing you about your own restaurant and prepare a killer strategy to boost your sales of highly profitable items.

3. Xena POS System can help boost customer loyalty

The good news is that Xena’s Restaurant POS System can make it easier for a restaurant to create its own loyalty program hence boosting customer retention, which has been proven to directly lower cost per customer and thus have a positive impact on your bottom line. Having your own loyalty program also allows you to retain all your own customer data and track the success of your efforts.

With a POS System that has a built in CRM and loyalty program like Xena, you can collect all the important data of your customers and track their behavior including how they are responding to promotional offers. You can track which promotions, branches or menu items are performing better, and you can target your promotions to specific locations, customer groups, or menu items that you want to boost. 

A great loyalty program allied to a great POS System with comprehensive reports gives you data in easy to understand formats to tell you more about your customers so you can decide how to reward them in ways that are meaningful to them. If can understand about which customers are coming back to redeem their offers, you know you can create new strategies to get a bigger share of their wallet.

4. Xena Restaurant POS allows you to split the bill easily and quickly

When you have a group of customers having a great time in your establishment the moment to pay the check can be a headache not just for them, but for your cashier too.  But Xena POS can divide and calculate separate checks for any member of the group, or any combination of group members such as a couple together, in a way that’s as fast and painless as printing a single bill for the whole group.

Do you feel that you need more guidance? Check our POS Beginners Guide

Our Point of Sale also allows each guest to use the payment method he or she prefers, and to pay when they prefer, as Xena Restaurant POS System allows you to cash some checks and leave others pending on the same table. So if one or more customers needs to leave earlier than others, they can ask for their share of the bill and settle it by card or whatever payment type they want to use, and not have to leave cash with one of their friends.

5. Xena POS System allows you to see everything going on in your business

Xena's flexible reporting system gives you a real-time view of what was sold, for how much, and how it was paid for. Track your location's performance any time with Xena POS System's detailed reports.

Reports start with the essential daily sales reports which provide a summary of all the day's activities, including sales, refunds and payment types for each branch. It is possible to generate these reports during the open day (X Report), or after day closing (Z Report), for the whole location or by station or cashier.

You can also audit all the day’s transactions and thus control your operation with Xena's Transaction Audits set of reports, which gives details of all orders, cancels, voids and refunds with reasons. 

And with Xean’s Product Mix reports, you can monitor revenue and profitability by item, identify your winners and losers, and make decisions about items to introduce, keep, drop or price changes.

Unlike POS Systems which cater to retailers in general, Xena Restaurant POS is tailored to the needs of food service establishments. Using a restaurant POS like Xena is the only way to ensure you get all the features you need to run your restaurant in the most efficient way. Get your Xena restaurant POS today and start making the right decisions to grow your business and increase your profits based on insights gained from looking at your real results in new ways.

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