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While delivery, takeout, and self-service restaurant solutions are essential to many modern restaurants, for many businesses sit-down dining services will never go away. Customers will always enjoy arriving at the restaurant and being served high-quality food and great customer service that they just can’t get at home.

​Here are the top 5 ways restaurants can benefit from Aldelo Express POS for table service:

​5. Hold and Fire

Aldelo Express POS allows staff to “hold and fire” specific ticket items or entire orders to accommodate sit-down dining customer requests. The Aldelo Express Hold and Fire feature is used to hold specific items or entire orders for a specific amount of time before they are released manually by a staff member or automatically by the POS system after a specified period of time or on a specific release date and time. This includes accommodating customer requests by scheduling items for release minutes, hours, days, and even weeks in advance.

Restaurants use a single native Aldelo Express Hostess Seating solution to manage multiple dining environments, including outdoor patios and poolside seating

​4. Hostess Seating Module

The Aldelo Express Hostess Seating Module provides restaurant hosts a digital layout of the restaurant, including color-coded icons for each table and its current order status. With no limit to the number of seating sections and customizable table layouts, restaurants use a single native Aldelo Express Hostess Seating solution to manage multiple dining environments, including outdoor patios and poolside seating.

Users also use digital Reservation and Wait List Modules to accept reservations days in advance, note special requests, and use SMS text messages to notify guests when their table is ready. These modules eliminate messy notebooks and/or pagers that are easily lost, damaged, dirtied, or broken.

​3. Shared Item and Split Check Features

One of Aldelo Express’s latest feature releases allows customers to share the cost of individual menu items, providing a valuable restaurant service for customers dining out with coworkers, friends, or family. Called the Aldelo Express Shared Item feature, this new table service solution supports restaurants as they manage large parties and multiple guest checks before, during, or after the ordering process, without needing to restart the order process.

Aldelo Express also allows restaurant staff to easily split customer checks by seat with just a few taps, and combine multiple guest checks just as quickly. So whatever a customer’s needs are, Aldelo Express Shared Item and Split Check Features alleviate customers from the trouble and stress of splitting the cost of a meal after they leave the restaurant, and allows servers to smoothly manage multiple tickets in any dining environment.

Aldelo Express Shared Item and Split Check Features alleviate customers from the trouble and stress of splitting the cost of a meal after they leave the restaurant

2. Required Beverage Feature

Be they soda, juice, or tea, beverages provide restaurants a significant portion of their annual business revenue. The Aldelo Express Required Beverage Feature guarantees restaurants a significant return on their POS investment by requiring customers to order a drink with an entree. When this feature is enabled, servers are unable to continue an order process until placing an order for a beverage. Not only does this optional feature provide the business additional revenue, it also deters and prevents employees from attempting to pocket the cost of customer beverages and serve “free drinks” in hopes of a bigger tip.
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1. Cash Discount Feature

To help operators reduce payment processing costs, Aldelo Express offers an automated cash discount feature that encourages customers to pay with cash instead of credit card.  To ensure federal regulation compliance, the Aldelo Express cash discount feature automatically adjusts menu item prices before applying the appropriate discount to cash orders. By simply turning “on” the Cash Discount feature in the cloud back office, owners and operators confidently implement cash discounts in their restaurant and document these charges on physical and digital receipts.

​Merchants looking for cloud-based POS solutions that will help them operate their business and protect the bottom line can contact an Aldelo representative today at [email protected] or 925-621-2410

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