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Proper use of an inventory program significantly reduces restaurant food costs and saves restaurants thousands of dollars a year on excess purchases, spoiled inventory, and food waste. With the Aldelo Express Inventory Module, merchants quickly identify profit leakage and reduce waste occurring at one or multiple restaurant locations, protecting precious revenues and their bottom line as they navigate an ever-changing market.

Here are 3 simple ways to successfully manage restaurant inventory:

Track High-Cost and High-Margin Items

​Restaurants that track proteins, liquor, coffee, and desserts at a high-level simplify inventory processes and back-office reports. By focusing primarily on high-cost and high-profit items, restaurant owners and inventory managers balance time spent monitoring items that are most important to the business’s bottom line.

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Aldelo Express POS provides business owners with multiple scalable point-of-sale solutions capable of supporting a modern restaurant operation. This includes native POS software applications for Online Ordering and Digital Payments, QR Code-Based Digital Menus, Self-Service Kiosks, Order and Pay at the Table services, QR Code-Based Digital Payments, eGift Cards, Loyalty and Rewards Programs, and much more.

In addition, merchants receive unlimited software licenses, unlimited software updates, 24/7 technical support, and more for the life of their POS solution. With cloud back-office management and controls, business owners monitor and manage their in-store, remote, and hybrid POS operations from any web-enabled device. The result is not only saving money by eliminating recurring monthly fees for each POS solution, but utilizing versatile and scalable POS solutions that expand and grow with the business.

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​Running or working at a restaurant means every day is different. Aldelo Express offers restaurant owners reliable and easy-to-use point-of-sale solutions with several native POS solutions that digitally synchronize front-of-house and back-of-house processes. These include Aldelo Express POS for iPads, Android Tablets, and Android-based Mobile Handheld terminals, self-service Kiosks for lobby and tableside ordering, Masa+ Online Ordering and Digital Payments, digital Kitchen Display Systems (KDS), and more.

Here are 5 ways Aldelo Express Kitchen Display Systems benefit restaurant owners:

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Whether a restaurant owner is adjusting menu prices, evaluating recent campaigns, or adjusting employee schedules, reliable back-office reports and management solutions are essential to navigating an ever-changing market.

Mobile back-office management means owners and operators are able to effectively respond to security concerns, operational inefficiencies, and related anomalies occurring in one or multiple restaurant locations – even when they cannot be physically present.

​The ability to remotely access and manage the restaurant means increased time efficiency and productivity; including a more balanced personal and work life.

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The month of October is famous for Fall Harvest Festivals, pumpkin patch trips, the Major League Baseball Post-Season Playoffs, and Halloween. Each one of these October activities provides restaurant owners an opportunity to encourage new and existing customers to visit their restaurant by incentivizing menu purchases via gift card, loyalty, and rewards-based promotions.

Here are a few ways restaurants can engage their customers this October:

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Whether conducted once, twice, or multiple times each day, balancing a restaurant’s cash drawer is an essential security measure for preventing theft, securing the business, and monitoring daily cash flows. With the Aldelo Express Blind Balancing Module, restaurant owners easily record quantities of cash and coin denominations stored in their cash drawer (till).

Though till balancing has been a common built-in cash register feature since the 1980’s, the Aldelo Express Blind Balancing Module enables merchants to input, count, and record till balances directly into their POS system using a tablet-based terminal, and automatically record cash drawer data into cloud back-office reports. Users simply enable the “Cash Count” feature to immediately begin managing cash count denominations and related security measures using their Aldelo Express cloud back-office login, anytime, anywhere. The result is increased visibility of front-of-house operations and enhanced POS security to protect precious margins.

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​Largely ignored in the US for years, QR codes are proving daily how much of a productive and trusted asset they are to business owners in today’s unpredictable market climate. As restaurant owners continually adjust to the contactless and digital market, utilizing QR code-based access to native and third-party online ordering and digital payment integrations help staff and customers increase operational efficiency, reduce order errors, and improve overall customer service levels and satisfaction.
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With eight out of ten people carrying a smartphone camera in their pockets, unique QR codes enable restaurants to put ordering and payment capabilities into the hands of their customers, including:

• Paperless menus
• Place online orders
• Scan-and-pay at the POS
• Web-based digital payments
• Leave cashless tips
• Receive paperless receipts
• Gain loyalty points
• Trigger curbside pick-up
• Digital restaurant storefronts
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Closely monitoring inventory is essential for restaurants to avoid unnecessary purchases, reduce waste, and eliminate profit leakage occurring at one or multiple restaurant locations. Aldelo recently announced the Aldelo Express Inventory Module that supports simplicity, accuracy, consistency, and profitability for restaurant owners/operators and those who manage inventory operations. Plus, as a zero-cost native cloud POS integration from Aldelo Express, merchants using the Aldelo Express Inventory Module reap an invaluable return on their investment.

Here are the top 5 reasons why restaurants need the Aldelo Express Inventory Module:

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The school year is back in swing, which means restaurants are engaging schools, students, and school groups in their local communities. For many customers, their daily schedules are prioritized around their childrens’ school, extracurricular activities, and their local social network. By supporting students’ success while encouraging new and existing customers to return the favor through support of their business, restaurants successfully increase customer traffic this fall and throughout the school year with back-to-school themed campaigns.

Here are three ways to engage your local customer base with back-to-school themed campaigns and events:

Homecoming Catering and Promotions

Homecoming is an exciting time of year for students, families, and their communities. With homecoming float-building, dances, and football games occurring throughout the fall season, restaurants have a unique opportunity to support local schools with homecoming-themed catering and promotions. Examples include:

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Aldelo referral partners offer one of the most valuable restaurant point-of-sale solutions in the industry. In addition to offering basic point-of-sale needs with integrated digital payments and back-office reports, referral partners who offer the cloud-based Aldelo Express POS restaurant technology platform provide their customers with:
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• Automatic cloud-based data syncs across all POS terminals
• QR code-based ordering and digital payments
• Native inventory module
• Digital labor scheduling and employee communications
• Masa+ online orders and digital payments

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Aldelo Express POS is a cloud point-of-sale solution built with modern restaurants in mind. In addition to full-featured digital point-of-sale solutions for staff and customers, Aldelo Express helps restaurants run in-house delivery operations using the Aldelo Express native Delivery Module.

Restaurants that use native delivery modules that are integrated with a point-of-sale solution achieve seamless and efficient operations. Operators also eliminate the need of third-party solutions and resulting fees, immediately increasing their revenue for delivery orders. That is why Aldelo offers restaurant owners who use Aldelo Express POS the option of utilizing a native delivery driver module with caller-ID, surcharges, digital mapping, custom digital menu pricing and more. Merchants also implement text-based notifications to customers when their delivery order is on its way, keeping their off-premise customers fully updated when their order is expected to arrive.

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Many customers that dine at high-end restaurants don’t go for the food – at least, not exclusively. A main draw of fine dining is the customer-centric experience that makes guests feel like VIP’s. From arriving at the restaurant with a reservation, to ordering from the chef’s selection with a paired drink, and being served by attentive staff throughout the meal, “fine dining” means enjoying great food and great service in a great restaurant atmosphere.

Aldelo Express POS offers multiple applications and features to support a restaurant’s fine dining services. These include:

• Mobile handheld POS terminals for seamless tableside ordering and digital payments
• Customer profiles for recording special requests, order histories, and party details
• Digital hostess and reservation modules, complete with text-based alerts
• Split customer check by seat, before, during, or after orders are placed
• Automatic POS data syncs across all devices and back-office reports

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Aldelo has always been, first and foremost, a restaurant point-of-sale software developer. Whether it’s responding to merchant feedback to enhance existing POS applications, or introducing new native solutions such as the Aldelo Express Inventory Module, Aldelo’s full-time team of software developers is committed to providing restaurant owners and referral partners with “complete access to leading restaurant technologies.”

To best serve new and existing restaurant owners looking for affordable full-featured point-of-sale solutions, Aldelo Express POS supports “freedom of choice” processing. This includes a monthly POS SaaS option that enables merchants to purchase the Aldelo Express restaurant technology platform separately from their restaurant’s merchant payment processing services. The result is allowing more restaurant owners to benefit from Aldelo Express’s full-featured cloud POS solutions while using credit card processing services that best suit the needs of their business.

​Selecting the ​Aldelo Express POS technology platform means implementing a complete merchant- and customer-facing POS ecosystem using non-proprietary hardware and a single cloud back-office environment. Aldelo Express POS hardware options are seamlessly interoperable and synchronize data so that information is readily available on any device, allowing merchants the freedom to select hardware they feel is best for their operation. Whether utilizing iPads, Android Tablets, or Android-based Mobile Handheld devices, every Aldelo Express terminal is capable of supporting a complete restaurant operation. 

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Because coffee is the most popular drink in America, nearly every restaurant offers hot or cold coffee beverages on their menu. This September 29th, on National Coffee Day, restaurant owners across the country are taking advantage of the opportunity to promote their restaurant’s digital menus with coffee-themed loyalty campaigns. By incentivizing digital online ordering purchases with coffee-based giveaways and discounts, businesses see increased purchases of food and drinks placed both in-store on QR code-based digital menus, and online.

For new and existing restaurant owners, offering a full-featured digital menu means enabling customers to customize their own coffee-based drinks using simple, complex, and priced menu item modifiers. Using a single cloud-based login, owners/operators monitor and manage digital menus and menu item modifiers anytime, anywhere through the Aldelo Express POS cloud back-office. When used alongside self-service Kiosks and QR code-based signage placed throughout the indoor and outdoor restaurant environment, restaurants utilizing Aldelo Express and Masa+ eliminate long lines and reduce wait times through on-demand customer-facing digital ordering and secure payment services.

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An essential role of any successful referral partner is maintaining contact through every step of the customer relationship. This includes following up on initial meetings, providing clear communications, and providing customer guidance during the purchasing and onboarding processes. Post installation visits allow referral partners to fine tune certain aspects of the POS, observe how the operation flows, and determine additional hardware and features that merchants may benefit from. Successful referral partners make periodic site visits and achieve a lifetime customer relationship that results in additional referrals and new business. 

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There are many reasons why business owners should utilize a digital labor scheduling module for their restaurant, bar, pizza place, or food truck. Restaurants that utilize labor scheduling modules create a more inclusive and cooperative staffing environment where everyone participates by establishing a pool of varying work shifts that allows employees to commit to and trade out with co-workers. Establishing a flexible work schedule reduces pressure on restaurant owners and staff by creating a working environment that meets everyone’s needs. The result is less stress and a happier work environment.

Here are 3 facts you need to know to immediately begin saving money by close labor schedule monitoring and analysis.

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As customers continually gravitate towards affordable mobile and/or handheld point-of-sale terminals, Aldelo Express POS iPad- and Android-based hardware options help streamline and simplify operations by synchronizing in-person and remote services using a fully integrated restaurant technology platform.

Here 5 reasons why merchants prefer Aldelo Express cloud point-of-sale technology over legacy hardware point-of-sale systems:

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One of the most valuable assets restaurants gain from utilizing modern point-of-sale technology advancements is deeper insights into daily operations. As operators serve customers in-store, online, and off-premises, gaining insights into customer and transaction data help restaurants predict ebbs and flows of customer traffic, inventory movement patterns, and determine which customer-facing digital services to deploy. Understanding the business means implementing efficient and beneficial operational practices that positively impact the restaurant’s bottom line.

Restaurants that have successfully navigated many challenges over the last several years have become nimble through the accelerated adoption and development of restaurant point-of-sale technology solutions that provides their business with surface-level and detailed operational data and back-office reports. These solutions include native online storefronts, all-in-one mobile handheld devices, integrated digital gift, loyalty, and rewards solutions, and more.

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One of the best strategies a restaurant can make at the end of a busy summer season is leveraging customer contact information gathered over the previous several months and establishing new loyalty campaigns. Promoting reward incentives that cater to busy schedules keep customers engaged despite a transition into school-year routines. When successful, these restaurants not only retain summer customers, but can present their restaurant as a “grab and go” option or as an ideal “hotspot” for parent meetings, local fundraisers, or a fun time out.

​Here are 3 creative ways to target customers this September with themed campaigns:

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Aldelo referral partners grow their customer base by offering affordable point-of-sale solutions that help merchants succeed in every type of market. This includes offering a variety of flexible restaurant management solutions via native and third-party integrations. The recent release of the Aldelo Express Inventory Module provides Aldelo referral partners with yet another powerful restaurant management solution created by Aldelo’s in-house development team based on business best-practices, innovative restaurant technologies, and merchant feedback.

With the Aldelo Express Inventory Module, rather than recording shipments with a pen and paper and transferring that data into a computer, merchants utilize Aldelo Express iPad devices to log, monitor, and manage inventory purchases and individual item usage. Regular item counts provide owners and operators with clear visibility of their usage cycles and anticipated revenues. The enhanced accuracy is essential to effectively cutting costs, validating purchases, maximizing inventory yields, and identifying profit leakage occurring at one or multiple restaurant locations. By utilizing the native inventory module, operators save hundreds if not thousands of dollars a year by effectively preventing inventory spoilage, waste, and profit leakage.

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For millions of Americans, September marks the end of summer. By the end of August, summer tourists, campers, and out-of-towners are going back to their school year routines, making September a challenging period for many restaurant owners who are at risk of losing new summer customers. As a result, one of the best things a restaurant can do is target their customers with integrated loyalty and rewards incentives so they will be reminded of their favorite “summer stop” throughout the school year. When successful, these restaurants not only maintain a growing customer base, but present their restaurant as an ideal vendor for fundraisers, sports team gatherings, homecoming catering, and more.

One of the best ways restaurants can strategically compete in the growing loyalty market is to reward customer purchases and influence return visits with unique customer promotions. These help restaurants increase customer traffic and earn additional revenue that is often essential for sustaining the business during slower periods.

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​This October 28, 2022, the PCI Security Standards Council will officially close the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) program. For restaurant owners and credit card merchants, this means finalizing the transition from the PA-DSS program to its successor, the PCI Secure Software Standard. This will enable restaurant owners to continue adhering to PCI Security Standards Council standards in everyday business transactions.

Established by five major credit card companies, the Purchase Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) are a set of regulations for all businesses that accept credit cards and continue to be modified as payment processing and data systems evolve. While not legally enforced, adherence to PCI DSS standards is extremely widespread and can result in multiple financial penalties, up to and including denial of credit card processing for merchants who do not comply.

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After labor, the best way for restaurant owners to control their costs is by managing their inventory purchasing cycles. Regular item counts not only provide owners and operators a clear picture of their usage cycles and associated revenues, but also are essential to effectively cutting costs, validating purchases, maximizing inventory yields, and identifying profit leakage occurring at one or multiple restaurant locations.

With the recently released Aldelo Express Inventory Module, restaurant owners manage, monitor, and forecast inventory item purchases from anywhere with a Wi-Fi or Cellular Data connection. Using Aldelo Express iPad POS tablets, users immediately begin counting incoming purchased items, managing storage groups, tracking item locations, viewing item forecasts, monitoring recipe batch productions, and more.