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Working with digital menus is unavoidable in the modern era. Even if a restaurant uses physical printed menus for their customers, maintaining a digital point-of-sale system requires managing a digital menu! But making changes to restaurant menus is time-consuming and costly. This becomes especially relevant when restaurants are adjusting to changing supply costs, labor costs, state or federal legislation, or creating specialty menus tailored to happy hours, special events, and seasonal or limited-time specials. Therefore, having a way to update digital menus in minutes or hours instead of days or weeks can bring critical enhancements to a restaurant’s efficiency and long-term success.
Fortunately, Aldelo Express offers multiple menu management tools that allow restaurants to easily make menu adjustments in advance or on-the-fly. Whether creating a new menu, updating prices, adding new items, or scheduling automatic changes for happy hour or special event pricing, Aldelo Express offers powerful menu management tools to ensure that every digital menu in the restaurant or on the restaurant’s Masa+ online platform is consistent and up-to-date.
Let’s dive into how Aldelo Express makes complex menu management simple – super simple:
Fortunately, Aldelo Express offers multiple menu management tools that allow restaurants to easily make menu adjustments in advance or on-the-fly. Whether creating a new menu, updating prices, adding new items, or scheduling automatic changes for happy hour or special event pricing, Aldelo Express offers powerful menu management tools to ensure that every digital menu in the restaurant or on the restaurant’s Masa+ online platform is consistent and up-to-date.
Let’s dive into how Aldelo Express makes complex menu management simple – super simple:
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Updating digital menus in minutes or hours instead of days or weeks can bring critical enhancements to a restaurant’s efficiency and long-term success
1. AI Menu Builder
Whether operators are building their digital menu database for the first time or updating an existing menu with new items, prices, or item descriptions, Aldelo Express AI Menu Builder offers operators a simple “scan-and-go” menu building experience.
First, users scan a printed or handwritten restaurant menu using cameras built into their tablet point-of-sale device. Then, the AI Menu Builder gets to work on creating a new menu database within the Aldelo Express Point-of-Sale system. Utilizing sophisticated algorithms and artificial intelligence technology, the AI Automation Service analyzes the menu image, identifying and learning menu layouts, item categorizations, and pricing structures to determine menu item names, descriptions, and prices. The AI Menu Builder then systematically categorizes items, integrates pricing, and organizes the point-of-sale menu in a way that accurately reflects the restaurant’s physical menu.
Before Aldelo introduced this revolutionary AI Automation Service, restaurant operators would spend hours manually building a menu database into their point-of-sale system. But today, thanks to the Aldelo Express AI Menu Builder, restaurant operators can enjoy a simple “scan-and-go” process, turning what used to take hours into a matter of mere minutes.
2. Advanced Pricing Module
The Aldelo Express Advanced Pricing Module gives restaurant owners complete control over displayed prices and digital menus with two solutions: Global Price Changes and Automatic Pricing. Let’s explore these solutions and their advantages:
The Aldelo Express Advanced Pricing Module gives restaurant owners complete control over displayed prices and digital menus with two solutions: Global Price Changes and Automatic Pricing. Let’s explore these solutions and their advantages:
Aldelo Express Advanced Pricing Module gives restaurant owners complete control over displayed prices and digital menus
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Advanced Pricing Module: Global Price Changes
Global price changes enable owners and operators to quickly make pricing changes across in-store and online digital menus. Rather than manually adjusting individual costs for each food and drink item, Aldelo Express lets users adjust prices for individual items, groups, and menu items categories en masse. Whether increasing or decreasing menu prices by percentage or dollar value, operators make global price changes to their restaurant menu in seconds, not hours. Aldelo Express also enables restaurant owners to set unique menu prices by order type (dine in, bar, takeout, pickup, and/or delivery), according to the changing needs of their business. Changes are pushed across all Aldelo Express Point-of-Sale terminals and/or Masa+ digital menus, providing consistency across in-store and online platforms. Advanced Pricing Module: Automatic Pricing
The time, planning, cost, and logistics of updating a restaurant menu should not be the reason that restaurants and bars hold back from hosting happy hours, limited-time discounts, or unique pricing by time of day (breakfast, lunch, dinner) – all of which are tried and true ways of drawing customers into a restaurant! Automatic price changes allow operators to activate price increases or decreases at specified dates and times, down to the minute. This offers time-relieving (and stress-relieving!) solution to restaurants hosting happy hours, entertainment hours, ladies nights, brunch hours, or other events that require unique pricing, by allowing managers to make changes to their menu days, weeks, or months before the event begins. |
3. Matrix Module
The Aldelo Express Matrix Module simplifies ordering processes and staff communication through an easy-to-use interface. With the Aldelo Express Matrix Module, restaurants quickly create multiple menu options under a single item that allows users to view multiple item choices and modifiers for each menu item with a single tap.
Using the Aldelo Express Matrix Module is simple and fast. Users create a base item, price, and reporting/sales category that is then copied into each individual PLU. Managers then set up item variables and associated images that automatically sync with the POS system including back-office reports, printer routes, and smart kitchen display systems (KDS).
By incorporating dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of menu options into staff-facing and customer-facing point-of-sale devices, restaurants improve order accuracy for all orders made in-store and remotely. The result is enhanced efficiency for staff and greater satisfaction for customers as they place orders to enjoy via dine in, takeout, pickup, and delivery.
The Aldelo Express Matrix Module simplifies ordering processes and staff communication through an easy-to-use interface. With the Aldelo Express Matrix Module, restaurants quickly create multiple menu options under a single item that allows users to view multiple item choices and modifiers for each menu item with a single tap.
Using the Aldelo Express Matrix Module is simple and fast. Users create a base item, price, and reporting/sales category that is then copied into each individual PLU. Managers then set up item variables and associated images that automatically sync with the POS system including back-office reports, printer routes, and smart kitchen display systems (KDS).
By incorporating dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of menu options into staff-facing and customer-facing point-of-sale devices, restaurants improve order accuracy for all orders made in-store and remotely. The result is enhanced efficiency for staff and greater satisfaction for customers as they place orders to enjoy via dine in, takeout, pickup, and delivery.
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Streamline Complex Menu Management
with Aldelo Express! Traditional printed menus can require regular reprinting as operators make changes to menu item pricing, ingredients, availability, or descriptions. The associated costs not only quickly add up over time, but require advance planning to ensure that printing orders are in the restaurant when the changes become “live.” Using Aldelo Express and Masa+ digital menus, on the other hand, operators easily manage complex menus without need for paper or printing, making updated menus immediately available to in-store and remote customers. The result is saved time and costs as operators manage complex menus from anywhere, using a Wi-Fi or Cellular Data connection to access their cloud back-office environment. Learn more by contacting an Aldelo representative today at [email protected] or 925-621-2410 |
Easily manage complex menus without need for paper or printing with Aldelo Express menu management solutions
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Restaurants that use ultra-competitive Aldelo Pay or Aldelo Partner Merchant Services obtain access to a Centralized Multi-Store Restaurant Technology Platform that includes Masa+ Online Ordering, Unlimited Software Releases, Unlimited Software Upgrades, and 24/7 Technical Support! *** Please contact an Aldelo representative today for more details, including a free Aldelo Express POS demo trial [email protected] | 877-639-8767 | [email protected] |
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