If you’ve decided to open a restaurant, there are a lot of things you’ve probably thought a lot about. Hopefully, some of these include concept, location, recipes, vendors, location, decor, and...location. If any of these elements have not been a big part of your planning, you should probably take a step back and figure them out before you move forward. Opening a restaurant is expensive, both in terms of time and money. You want to make sure that you get it right so that your new business can succeed.

In the early 1950s, the shopping scene was much different from the operations of store owners of today. The way people lived was changing, in part because:

What you need to know before you buy a POS system really boils down to one, basic question: What is included? Okay, it’s a little more complex than that, but that really is the gist of it. We’ve put together a list of questions you should know the answers to when purchasing a new POS system.

Learn more about the elements of Point of Sale systems in order to better equip your restaurant and increase accuracy and efficiency

BPA Restaurant Professional and Delivery Professional have the option to print modifiers on the kitchen ticket in red or bold. If you have a supported printer, follow this guide to configure color accent printing

When you are looking for a great way to improve your business operations and to boost functionality and efficiency, the clear solution is to invest in a modern point of sale system. There are customized POS system solutions available for many types of business environments. For example, some are designed for use in a restaurant or food services environment while others have features and benefits that are better suited for use in a retail environment. Because of the variations in these systems, the benefits that you may enjoy by using them will vary from system to system. However, there are some general advantages that you will have access to with most of these systems.

Restaurants are labor-intensive environments, and the busiest restaurants may be fully staffed with dozens of employees or more during peak dining periods. Everything from chopping vegetables to serving patrons requires some level of personal attention from staff members, and the overhead associated with labor can be tremendous. As a conscientious restaurant owner or manager, you may constantly be looking for ways to reduce overhead by streamlining certain functions, and you understandably may have an eye of automating certain processes to decrease the amount of labor that is required for certain activities. One option to consider is to invest in a POS system for your restaurant.

The IRS has recently mandated changes to the way restaurants treat auto gratuity. For payroll purposes auto gratuity must be treated as a service charge. This means they must be tracked separately and are no longer considered eligible for a social security deduction. As a result of these changes we have introduced a number of changes to the way the BPA software tracks and reports gratuity and auto gratuity.

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BPA includes much flexibility for setting up manager/employee passwords in the system. BPA includes three levels of manager groups that allow you to give different levels of access to different managers/employees. This guide will walk you through setting up manager/employee passwords in BPA Restaurant Professional and Delivery Professional....