Point of Sale for Restaurants and Shops: Choosing It and Running It
Nine shops out of ten own a good system and use a quarter of it. Choosing takes three chapters; the other nine are about the day itself — recipes, the cash drawer, waste, permissions and the reports that change decisions.
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01 — Overview
Overview
Most of what is written about point of sale stops at the purchase. That is not the problem. The problem is a good system used at a quarter of its value: half the sales on a “miscellaneous” button, stock that never matches, cash short at the end of the day, and a margin report that has never been opened.
So this is a book about operating. Choosing takes three chapters out of twelve; the rest is the day itself — data entry and recipes, the shift close and the drawer, waste and cycle counting, permissions and the audit log, delivery commission, and the backup nobody ever tested.
The rule it rests on: the system reveals and measures, the procedure prevents. Whoever buys a system without procedures gets their own problems back, precisely documented.
02 — What you will learn
What you will learn
The one question that tells you a point of sale is the wrong purchase for you
Turning your actual cycle into a list a vendor can price and cannot dodge
The twelve vendor questions — including the two on data ownership and vendor closure
Recipes: why a restaurant that reduces stock by dish knows nothing useful
The closing procedure that ends “the cash is short” — and why you count before looking
Why stock never matches, and the three things the system cannot see
Three permission levels, and reading the audit log as a question rather than an accusation
The four reports that run a shop — and why the best seller is not the biggest earner
Delivery commission computed per item, where an item at 30% margin turns loss-making
A 36-question audit, a priority order, and a ninety-day plan
03 — The chapters
The chapters
- What a Point of Sale Actually Is — and When You Do Not Need One
- What to Ask For: From Your Cycle to a List a Vendor Can Price
- Evaluating Vendors and the Contract: The Decisive Questions and Clauses
- Setup and Data Entry: Codes, Categories, Recipes and the Opening Stocktake
- Daily Operation: Opening, Selling, Closing and Cash
- Stock and Waste: Why It Does Not Match, and How to Make It
- Staff and Permissions: Who Can Do What — and How to Read the Log
- Reports and Decisions: Four Reports That Run a Shop
- Integration: Delivery, Accounting, Branches and Invoicing
- Protection and Continuity: Backups, Security and the Recovery Plan
- Twelve Common Mistakes — and the Remedy for Each
- The Full Audit: 36 Questions and a Ninety-Day Plan
04 — What you get
What you get
12 chapters + a 14-term glossary
A 36-question audit with a ninety-day plan
Two full editions: Arabic + English
Print-ready PDF included (~48–56 pages)
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06 — Questions, answered
Questions, answered
I already have a system. Is this still for me?
It is mostly for you. Nine of the twelve chapters are about running a system you already own — the setup, the daily procedures, stock, permissions and reports. If your stock does not match or your cash is short, the answer is in those nine, not in buying something else.
Does it recommend specific systems?
No, deliberately. Names and prices change, and a book listing them becomes a source of error within a year. It gives you what to ask so you can evaluate whatever is put in front of you, and there is no walkthrough of any particular interface for the same reason.
Is it for a restaurant or a shop?
Both, with the difference marked throughout. Restaurants get recipes, modifiers, tables and the kitchen; shops get barcodes, multiple units, expiry dates and promotions. The audit chapter has a section restaurants answer and shops skip.
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