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Running a successful restaurant means finding the right balance between delivering exceptional service and keeping costs under control. One of the biggest challenges many restaurants face today is managing rising labor costs while maintaining in-store and remote operations. Aldelo Express offers a range of scalable point of sale solutions that not only make the day-to-day workload easier for wait staff but also help restaurant owners reduce labor expenses and improve overall efficiency. Here’s a look at how Aldelo Express tools can benefit your restaurant.
1. AI Menu Item Prediction
Aldelo Express’s AI Menu Item Prediction simplifies the ordering process by suggesting menu item names as they are typed. This speeds up order entry and reduces errors, ensuring accuracy without the need to search through a long list of items. The AI continuously learns from all entries, refining its suggestions to enhance menu consistency across all restaurant locations.
For multi-location restaurants, this feature helps maintain uniformity in menu item naming for customers, servers, kitchen staff, and administrators, improving overall efficiency. With improved communications, wait staff can focus more on serving customers. The result: smoother ordering, fewer errors, and a reduction in labor costs thanks to improved productivity.
Aldelo Express’s AI Menu Item Prediction simplifies the ordering process by suggesting menu item names as they are typed. This speeds up order entry and reduces errors, ensuring accuracy without the need to search through a long list of items. The AI continuously learns from all entries, refining its suggestions to enhance menu consistency across all restaurant locations.
For multi-location restaurants, this feature helps maintain uniformity in menu item naming for customers, servers, kitchen staff, and administrators, improving overall efficiency. With improved communications, wait staff can focus more on serving customers. The result: smoother ordering, fewer errors, and a reduction in labor costs thanks to improved productivity.
2. AI Tip Adjust Automation
Manually adjusting tips at the end of a shift can take time and lead to errors, especially in a busy restaurant. Aldelo Express’s AI Tip Adjust Automation simplifies this process by automatically adjusting tips as part of the payment transaction. This not only speeds up the closing process for wait staff but also ensures accuracy, reducing any potential discrepancies. As a result, your team can quickly close checks, wrap up their shifts faster, and your management can spend less time dealing with manual tip adjustments, helping to keep labor costs down.
Manually adjusting tips at the end of a shift can take time and lead to errors, especially in a busy restaurant. Aldelo Express’s AI Tip Adjust Automation simplifies this process by automatically adjusting tips as part of the payment transaction. This not only speeds up the closing process for wait staff but also ensures accuracy, reducing any potential discrepancies. As a result, your team can quickly close checks, wrap up their shifts faster, and your management can spend less time dealing with manual tip adjustments, helping to keep labor costs down.
3. AI Menu Builder
Aldelo Express’s AI Menu Builder uses an iPad camera to scan and capture physical menu data, which is then populated into the POS system with suggested item categories, names, descriptions, and prices. This tool leverages machine learning to ensure consistency and accuracy of menu entries while continuously improving outcomes based on the uniqueness of every menu scanned. As the system learns from all entries, it becomes increasingly effective at suggesting item names and descriptions that are both consistent and aligned with your brand’s offerings.
The AI Menu Builder automates menu updates, reducing the need for manual input and errors. This streamlines the process of adding new items or updating existing ones, saving valuable time for restaurant operators. For restaurants with multiple locations, this feature ensures uniformity across menus, making it easier to maintain consistency and reduce discrepancies. By improving operational efficiency, the AI Menu Builder not only helps save time but also aids in creating a more optimized menu that reflects customer preferences and market trends.
4. QR Code Online Ordering & Payments
QR Code Online Ordering is a great way to relieve the burden on your wait staff, especially during peak times. By placing QR codes on tables or menus, customers can scan the code and place their orders directly from their smartphones. These reduce the need for staff to take orders manually, improving efficiency and cutting down wait times. It also allows restaurants to operate more smoothly with smaller teams, which can significantly lower labor costs without compromising service quality.
QR Code Online Ordering is a great way to relieve the burden on your wait staff, especially during peak times. By placing QR codes on tables or menus, customers can scan the code and place their orders directly from their smartphones. These reduce the need for staff to take orders manually, improving efficiency and cutting down wait times. It also allows restaurants to operate more smoothly with smaller teams, which can significantly lower labor costs without compromising service quality.
5. QR Code Scan & Pay from Customer Receipt
QR Code Scan & Pay technology allows customers to pay directly from their phones by scanning a QR code on their receipt. This simple solution speeds up the payment process and reduces reliance on wait staff, enabling faster table turnovers and relieving busy wait staff. With quicker, customer-driven payments, your staff can focus on serving more guests, helping your restaurant handle more customers with fewer resources. Additionally, customers appreciate the convenience and ease of paying with their mobile devices.
6. Self-Service Kiosks
Self-service kiosks offer customers a convenient way to place their own orders, making them a valuable tool for fast-casual or quick-service restaurants. By allowing guests to handle their own orders, you can reduce the need for additional staff during busy hours. These kiosks ensure that orders are accurate and processed quickly, which helps to minimize mistakes and waste. Placed alongside a payment terminal, restaurants can even let customers complete transactions on their own. Ultimately, this technology enables restaurants to operate more efficiently, providing great service while keeping staffing levels—and costs—in check.
Self-service kiosks offer customers a convenient way to place their own orders, making them a valuable tool for fast-casual or quick-service restaurants. By allowing guests to handle their own orders, you can reduce the need for additional staff during busy hours. These kiosks ensure that orders are accurate and processed quickly, which helps to minimize mistakes and waste. Placed alongside a payment terminal, restaurants can even let customers complete transactions on their own. Ultimately, this technology enables restaurants to operate more efficiently, providing great service while keeping staffing levels—and costs—in check.
Relieve Wait Staff and Reduce Labor Costs with Aldelo Express POS
Aldelo Express’s suite of POS solutions provides practical solutions that help restaurants improve efficiency and cut labor costs. From AI-powered services like AI Menu Item Prediction and AI Tip Adjust Automation to customer-friendly solutions like QR Code Online Ordering and Self-Service Kiosks, these solutions streamline operations and reduce the workload on wait staff. As labor costs continue to rise, leveraging these innovations can help restaurants optimize their workforce, deliver better service, and improve profitability—without needing to constantly hire more staff.
Learn more by contacting an Aldelo representative today at [email protected] or 925-621-2410
Aldelo Express’s suite of POS solutions provides practical solutions that help restaurants improve efficiency and cut labor costs. From AI-powered services like AI Menu Item Prediction and AI Tip Adjust Automation to customer-friendly solutions like QR Code Online Ordering and Self-Service Kiosks, these solutions streamline operations and reduce the workload on wait staff. As labor costs continue to rise, leveraging these innovations can help restaurants optimize their workforce, deliver better service, and improve profitability—without needing to constantly hire more staff.
Learn more by contacting an Aldelo representative today at [email protected] or 925-621-2410
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