Kitchen Printers Bring the Fastest Return on Your Investment

Point of sale systems are never complete withoutadditional business.
printers. Not only do you need printers for receipts,Upon further examination of the point of sale reports
journals and credit card payments, if you are awe found that he had a big increase in the amount of
restaurant you need printers in the kitchen to help stopappetizers that were sold that night. He had not
theft.prepared that many more than he would only any
Printers in the kitchen are often overlooked for theirother night, but the sales increase was definitely
importance in getting the orders to the kitchen,attributed to appetizer sales that night.
producing easy to read receipts and as a theftWhat this meant was the kitchen did not produce any
deterrent. Printers in the kitchen reduce noise andadditional food that night. The owner did have the
confusion and truly speed up service to yourkitchen completely under control. What he did not
customers by eliminating trips to the kitchen to delivercontrol without a point of sale system was the
food orders.servers not charging for the food he was preparing.
If you are a restaurant and do not have printers inThe new system for preparing food required that a
your kitchen you might as well not have a point of salereceipt be printed on the kitchen printer before the
system. That is how important kitchen printers are tochef/owner would prepare the food. In order for this
your business.receipt to be printed the server had to enter the order
Not too many years ago we installed a simple point ofinto the point of sale system. This tandem of a point of
sale system in a small restaurant. The restaurant wassale system and a kitchen printer closed the loop for
a converted house where the owner of the restaurantthe restaurant owner.
was the chef. He felt that since he was running theThis is a good example of a simple solution that too
kitchen and the restaurant was small that he had greatmany restaurant owners overlook. Too often the
control of the restaurant. His purpose for investing in akitchen printer is seen as an after thought and an
point of sale system was so that he did not have tounimportant aspect of a point of sale system. What
read the hand written tickets being presented by histhe restaurant owner should look at is how many
wait staff.preparation stations do they have in the kitchen and
At the end of the first night of business with the newhow could we utilize printers to speed production and
point of sale system we looked at the sales totals anddeter theft.
found that they had done $300 more than identicalInstead of looking at the cost of kitchen printers the
nights in the recent past. For his size operation thisrestaurant owners should be considering how these
was substantial. The owner was astonished as helow-cost additions to their point of sale systems will
swore that they had not prepared any more food thanhave the fastest return on investment of any aspect
they normally would. He could not account for theof their new system.