Guides
Restaurant guides for owners and managers
Practical, plain-English guides to running a restaurant: choosing a POS system, setting up QR ordering, controlling food cost and more — written by the team behind DotMax.
How to choose a restaurant POS system: a 12-point checklist
How to choose a restaurant POS system: the 12 things to check — ordering, kitchen, payments, stock, reports, real cost and support — before you sign up.
Read the guide Guide · 4 min readQR code menu ordering: how it works and how to start
QR code menu ordering explained: how guests scan, order and pay from the table, what changes for your staff, what it costs, and how to set it up step by step.
Read the guide Guide · 4 min readHow to reduce restaurant food cost: 10 practical ways
How to reduce restaurant food cost: measure your food cost %, cost every recipe, cut waste, count stock, buy to a plan and price dishes on margin — 10 ways.
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