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In the modern restaurant era, there are many things a restaurant needs to be successful. They need both indoor and outdoor dining, on- and off-premises services, and digital payments that expand customer reach and convenience. As a result, many restaurant owners are turning to point of sale solution providers to implement these services and stay relevant in their local market.

Restaurant owners that use Aldelo Express Cloud POS not only benefit from a full-featured cloud POS solution suite, but also enjoy the freedom of managing their business from anywhere through a cloud back-office environment.

As many restaurant owners take on additional responsibilities, many are leaning on POS technology for relief and maintaining a fluid schedule that takes them in and out of the restaurant. With cloud back-office management, restaurant owners embrace the ability to efficiently and effectively manage their operation regardless of where they are, enabling them to be successful in today’s demanding market.

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​Labor is easily the most controllable expense a restaurant has towards achieving daily profitability. By utilizing digital solutions for managing and communicating employee labor schedules, timecards, and reports through Aldelo Express Cloud POS, restaurant owners monitor and properly manage staff hours based on the needs of the business. The benefits of implementing a simple labor control system are immediate by reducing average hourly wage costs and increasing profitability.

​For many business owners, switching to a new point of sale system is an expensive investment that takes time and commitment. Owners/operators that make the switch to Aldelo Express Cloud POS receive unparalleled value and deploy a complete restaurant technology solution in minutes.

​The cloud-based POS system is the result of over 20 years of point of sale software development for restaurants of all types and sizes. With secure data encryptions and automatic data syncs on both iPad and Android devices, owners confidently manage single- and multi-store operations from a single back-office environment. This includes settings for kitchen display systems, remote handheld devices, online ordering, and digital payments.

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Today’s era of restaurant dining is hallmarked by digital self-services. Businesses of all sizes are using online ordering, digital payments, and digital communications to interact with customers both in-store and online. Each one of these solutions provide customers with greater convenience, and restaurant staff with improved front-of-house communications that contribute to increased productivity.

But alongside mainstream demand for customer-facing ordering and payments is a growing expectation for real-time communications sent from the restaurant to customer smartphones.

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​​Opening a restaurant is challenging enough. Having a solid plan and mastering that plan as quickly as possible has a direct impact on revenue and the success of your business.

Every restaurant provides a unique contribution to a city. Restaurant operators that network with other small business owners in their community accelerate their learning experiences by gleaning tips from those familiar with the area and customer market. Experienced business owners, especially those native to your area, offer other owners/operators invaluable lessons from their years of running a restaurant, engaging the community, serving customers, and working with third-party suppliers.

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​As inflation and supply chain delays continue, restaurants are challenged to maintain a profitable business while providing consistent food, drink, and customer service quality. To do this, owners and managers must use insights from back-office data to make changes to food and drinks on existing restaurant menus.

Restaurants using native inventory and digital menu solutions from Aldelo Express make changes to digital menu configurations based on item inventory, navigating ever-changing prices using surface-level and detailed sales reports and inventory logs accessed through a cloud back-office environment. With these tools, restaurant owners compare sales performances to food costs to determine popular and high profit items that attract hungry customers and increase revenue.

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​Modern cloud point of sale systems are a descendant of the traditional cash register, which was created to prevent profit leakage, manage transactions, and effectively secure the business’ bottom line. Today, with the emergence of cloud-based point of sale systems, each one has its own combination of traditional, remote, and mobile services. But the primary function of a point of sale system remains the same: to effectively manage transactions and secure the business’ bottom line.

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​Running multiple restaurant locations can be a thrilling yet daunting task. To run more than one operation, owners must either delegate to additional store leaders or engage in high-level multitasking as they work to release new services or manage day-to-day changes in the operation. With multiple layers of responsibilities that come with operating multiple storefronts, multi-store restaurant owners and managers can quickly become drained from running between tasks. As a result, their own staff are likely to feel the impact, risking the readiness, efficiency, and enthusiasm of their employees, and even the satisfaction of their customers.

Multi-Store Management Solution

But there is a way for restaurant owners to find peace of mind while they manage multiple businesses. Aldelo Express Cloud POS offers a multi-store management solution built into its back-office environment. With automatic syncs and back-office access from any web-enabled device, restaurant owners experience newfound peace of mind and freedom to manage their business anytime, anywhere.
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Restaurants using an Aldelo Express back-office have the ability to manage one or many stores and selectively make changes across all stores, specific stores, or a single store.

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​Restaurants struggling to hire and retain staff are looking for ways to maintain a full-featured operation without hiring additional staff. With Aldelo Express, restaurants maintain clear staff communication while managing one or several dining rooms. Using a built-in table layout module accessible from POS terminals, restaurant staff seamlessly coordinate a VIP front-of-house operation, even during busy mealtimes, without hiring new employees.

With built-in table layout modules from Aldelo Express, restaurants enjoy enhanced visibility of every table and bar location, allowing staff to customize the graphical layout of each room with table icons. The easy-to-use graphical layout is used to simulate main dining rooms, outdoor patios, poolside tables, bars, exclusive back dining rooms, outdoor patios, and other dining environments.

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​Business owners that use a table layout module for their restaurant empower their staff to work more efficiently, even during meal time rush hours. Table layout modules provide enhanced visibility, enabling wait and hostess staff to be in continuous sync on front-of-house duties and services.

Aldelo Express table layout modules simulate one or multiple dining rooms within a restaurant’s premises. The POS solution supports an unlimited number of dining room simulations, providing customizable graphical layouts for outdoor patio, poolside, bar, backroom, or central dining rooms. Table icons are easily relocated on the intuitive Aldelo Express POS user interface (UI), allowing staff to easily adjust room layouts when tables are moved to accommodate different-sized parties. Staff simply drag and drop table icons to imitate each room’s layout, and continue operating with color-coded identifiers that provide details on each table and party.

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In efforts to save money and reduce waste, restaurant owners are experimenting with creative ways to use and monetize excess food. By distributing ingredients or pre-made menu items to members in their community, restaurants maximize their inventory while encouraging new and existing customers to experience the store’s environment, food, and drinks.

Aldelo Express offers cloud point of sale solutions and features that include natively integrated digital menus and a cloud back-office platform that equips restaurant owners to maximize their profits via inventory oversight, item sales reports, and operational analysis. In addition, Aldelo Express users customize an ecosystem of merchant- and customer-facing solutions to expand their reach and provide customers with increased accessibility to the restaurant’s digital menu and related services.

​Here are some ways restaurant owners are using excess food with their Aldelo Express Cloud POS solution.

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​A common misconception among restaurant owners looking to expand their business is that adding enhanced in-store and remote capabilities – such as online ordering, payments, and digital loyalty programs – is only possible through expensive fees paid to their point of sale provider or third-party services. However, many times this is only true for restaurant owners who do not have Aldelo Pay or Aldelo Partner merchant processing services.

Through Aldelo Pay’s ultra-competitive payment processing rates, restaurant owners receive complete access to innovative Aldelo Express Cloud POS restaurant technology platform at no additional cost. This includes software for in-store, remote, and mobile POS devices; online ordering solutions; digital gift card, loyalty, coupon, and rewards programs; and real-time cloud back-office reporting and analytics for their restaurant, accessible anytime, anywhere.

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​​Aldelo Express Cloud POS is known for its reliable, scalable, and affordable point of sale solutions for in-store and remote services. Combined with Masa+ online ordering and digital payment capabilities, users run and manage a complete integrated food service operation from a single cloud back-office environment.

With a team of software developers working year round, Aldelo continues to provide innovative point of sale solutions that ensure business owners and operators are able to maximize their business potential in any market. In addition to QR code-based digital payments, most recently Aldelo has provided facial AI recognition technology to secure staff POS terminals and select features – the first point of sale provider to supply this kind of technology to restaurants.

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​Recent food trends indicate customers are turning to health-conscious food and drink choices when dining out – think dairy-free milks and plant-based meat alternatives. In addition, over half of customers say they are more likely to move towards healthy menu items when dining at local restaurants than they were in the past. While not all restaurants are well-suited to providing plant-based food and drinks, there are subtle ways restaurants can meet rising customer demand for health-conscious menu choices, without diverging from their classic dishes.

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​Without the proper restaurant management solution, making changes to physical restaurant menus is time-consuming and costly. This becomes especially relevant when restaurants are adjusting to changing supply and labor costs or creating specialty menus tailored to events and promotional campaigns. To help owners and operators more easily manage their restaurant’s digital menus, Aldelo Express Cloud POS provides a built-in Advanced Pricing Module.

With group and individual item management, restaurant owners make changes to menu categories or specific items that instantly adjust by percentage or dollar value. This eliminates guesswork when making price adjustments for advertised specials and helps owners control and monitor price markdowns via back-office reports.

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​​In a digital era, two of the most fundamental threats to a restaurant’s business are power and internet outages. Fortunately, by taking proper preventative measures and choosing Aldelo Express Cloud POS, owners and operators continue running a complete food service operation in the midst of otherwise crippling circumstances.

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​​Aldelo Express Cloud POS now includes facial AI recognition technology that increases security for the point of sale system for all restaurant and food service users. While usage of facial recognition technology has steadily grown in banking, retail, health, and security industries, Aldelo’s new security feature is the first of its kinds made available for POS terminals in the restaurant industry.

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There are many reasons why a restaurant will limit its hours of operation. Sometimes businesses close on weekdays to prepare for the remainder of the week, especially when most of their business is generated on weekends. Other restaurants will limit their hours to accommodate being short-staffed, or because their menus are tailored to specific meal times. Some restaurants may even limit their hours of operation in response to growing demand for flexible work hours that provide staff a better quality of life.

But by complimenting their restaurant’s unique schedule with smaller menus, owners establish a more manageable business model, are able to promote top-selling and high-profitable items, and set customer expectations through well-communicated schedules and business changes.

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​Before modern digital point-of-sale systems, owners secured their businesses with cash registers that tracked transactions and alerted staff with a bell every time the cash drawer opened. Over time, mechanical cash register technology evolved into electronic solutions. In the 1990’s, restaurants began implementing Windows-based touch screen POS terminals en masse. As POS systems evolved, restaurants expanded their services with innovative solutions such as delivery, self-service Kiosks, online ordering, and digital payments.

In 2022, owners and operators continue to use legacy point-of-sale solutions to support a range of restaurant applications. But with limited and costly upgrades for the latest software or new hardware that can support it, many owners are at a crossroad: they must maintain their dated system to extend its life, limiting its capabilities and the services to customers, or transition to a new POS solution running the latest technology. As restaurants research new options, they will find that newer systems are less costly than maintaining legacy systems.

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Point-of-sale systems and technologies have greatly evolved over the last two decades. While new ordering and payment technologies have benefitted restaurant owners’ operational efficiencies, as digital payments spread so did the efforts to steal customer’s personal credit card information. The widespread increase of online ordering and digital payments during COVID-19 only exacerbated this problem, making enhanced credit card and POS security measures an absolute necessity for restaurants that process credit cards.

Aldelo Express Cloud POS offers business owners and operators full-featured customer- and merchant-facing solutions that enables them to optimally run their restaurant and bar, with multiple solutions and features that protect customers’ digital payment methods used on-premises and online.

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​As food prices rise and shortages continue, customers are challenged to manage their at-home food costs, often patronizing multiple grocery stores to find the most affordable prices to comprise a single meal. But as of December 2021, the Department of Labor recorded that the average price for groceries has risen faster than the cost of ordering food and drinks from local restaurants.* As a result, more customers will likely turn to their favorite local restaurants to buy consistent, convenient, and cost-effective meals, supporting their families and their community especially when ordering pre-made meal kits.
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For restaurants, navigating price changes and food shortages requires actively managing inventory and engineering their menus in order to offer customers food and drink items that provide their business with the highest possible profit. With native inventory and digital menu solutions from Aldelo Express and Masa+, restaurants can do just that. Restaurant owners can make changes to digital menu configurations based on item inventory, accessing secure dashboard and in-depth reporting in a cloud back-office environment, enabling them to manage their entire restaurant operation efficiently and effectively anytime, anywhere.

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​In 2018, the United States spent over $200 billion growing, processing, transporting, and disposing uneaten food. Millions of tons of food are wasted each year: tons are left unharvested on farms and even more are thrown into landfills. Unfortunately, due to food being left on plates and excess inventory, the restaurant industry generates 11.4 million tons of food waste each year, costing billions of dollars in potential profit for food service owners and operators.*

The good news is, owners can take steps to reduce food waste in their restaurants using preventative solutions such as donating excess items to nonprofits, selling unused items to their customers, or getting creative with excess ingredients. In fact, the restaurant industry has potential to garner $620 million in profit potential.

Aldelo Express offers cloud point-of-sale solutions and features that include natively integrated digital menus and a cloud back-office platform that equips restaurant owners to reduce food waste via inventory oversight, item sales reports, and operational analysis. In addition, Aldelo Express users customize an ecosystem of merchant- and customer-facing solutions to meet growing needs of their customers and their business both on and off restaurant premises.

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​Aldelo Express just released the latest of many built-in security features for its cloud point-of-sale solutions. The new “facial AI” recognition login feature is the first of its kind made available for POS terminals in the restaurant industry. Restaurant managers implement the new biometric solution to secure point-of-sale, labor, and management functions. The new feature tightens previous security access functions, including employee PINs and unique QR code badges. The feature requires no new or special equipment, but utilizes cameras already built into the point-of-sale device.

Managers quickly set up face detection and face matching through a simple “face detection, face capture, and face match” process. Biometrics technology maps facial features and compares the data with known faces stored and secured on the Aldelo Cloud. Employees register their faces with no coverings or glasses. Once enrolled, the technology detects, captures, and matches users even while wearing a mask. Employee biometric data is never shared, and restaurants manage employee records in the back-office that can be easily deleted later on, with no recoverable trace of personal data.
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With the steady growth and usage of facial recognition technologies in banking, retail, health, and security industries, Aldelo’s facial AI technology increases POS security for all restaurant and food service users.

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​Essential to running a profitable business is closely monitoring and managing employee hours and payroll. Labor is the most controllable expense a restaurant has, but as coronavirus concerns and economic uncertainty continue, many restaurants still struggle to retain regular employees. Without accurate oversight, mis-scheduling shifts, mis-communicating schedules, and a lack of control managing daily time cards can be detrimental to a restaurant’s bottom line, and can even risk the restaurant’s compliance with local, state, and federal labor laws.

The Aldelo Express Cloud POS solution suite includes full-featured point-of-sale solutions and built-in Labor Module functions developed specifically to help new and existing restaurant owners take control of their labor expenses. The Aldelo Express Labor Module provides several customizable time clock and payroll functions that help managers better manage, secure, and automate their payroll and timecard solutions for the business.

​PRESS RELEASE
​December 21, 2021

​PLEASANTON, CA – December 21, 2021 - Aldelo, L.P., developer of the Aldelo Express Cloud POS restaurant technology platform that includes a native suite of merchant- and customer-facing iOS and Android point-of-sale solutions, announces the release of its “Facial AI” login feature. The first application of the technology for the restaurant industry, Aldelo’s facial recognition solution utilizes a standard tablet for securing access to Aldelo Express POS, timekeeping modules used for tracking employee time, manager functions, and cloud back-office.

Use of facial recognition technology has steadily grown in the mobility, security, health, banking, and retail industries. It is the most natural of all biometric measurements because we recognize ourselves not by looking at our fingerprints or irises, but by looking at our faces. Aldelo’s technology requires no physical interaction or specialized equipment for capturing and authenticating users.