Are you ignoring your liquor costs? Most merchants we’ve worked with in the food industry go through painstaking efforts to track every bun, every fry, every noodle, but fail to accurately record their liquor. Liquor is costly when ignored To be fair, we tend to see this trend...
We get it, you are a busy restaurant/bar owner, doesn't want to delegate tasks. You have to keep track of everything. You’re trying to make sure everything is running smoothly in the kitchen, items are tracked properly, and the overall day-to-day to keep your restaurant from...
Tablet POS systems are everywhere, and the popularity of mobile devices continues to grow in the technology world. We’re all for staying on top of advances in technologies. We trust and recommend PayAnywhere and Revel for our merchants. However, we wouldn’t recommend them to every merchant or business. Why? Tablet...
Over the last 2 years, the retail world has been rocked with data breaches. Retail giants like Home Depot and Target all had massive breaches, compromising millions of pieces of credit card information to identity-thieves. While Target and Home Depot suffered little in financial loss for the...
The face of Point-of-Sale (POS) is changing. Mobile payments are slowly beginning to be accepted at many businesses, from retail to restaurants. Many banks are creating apps for smart phones to allow cardholders to use their phones as a mobile payment option. Cashless transactions has been coming...
Point-of-Sale systems are quite the investment. While they are becoming cheaper and cheaper, the larger computer based models are pricy, making it in your best interest to keep in top condition as long as possible. Regular cleaning is a vital aspect in keeping it running smoothly. If...
The rate of Point-of-Sale technology has upgraded over the last 100 years is staggering. We’ve seen traditional cash registers, which dominated merchants way of taking payments with clunky and noisy presence, to the clunky but efficient computer based models. They’ve all changed to a newer, sleeker...
Theft has always been one of the biggest obstacles for small retailers. Whether it be from employees, business partners, or customers, theft is one of the largest contributors to shrinkage. The saddest fact is that small retailers feel the theft greater than the giant chains, but...
We’re all big nerds at BNG Point-of-Sale, (hence the name technologies). Part of our love of Point-of-Sale (POS) systems stems from our love of technology advances. POS systems can aid small business through many services, giving their owners a chance to become the star of their...
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Ahh retail, a beast of its own. Restaurants have their own struggles, but retail shares in heavy losses and the nightmares of cataloging inventory. Retail Point-of-Sale Systems require special pieces of equipment outside the original computer.16 Much like our previous blog, we’ll cover the basic pieces of...