I see this mistake quite often in most restaurant POS systems and I hope you're not making it
in your restaurant.
I want to show you how to set up combo meals in your POS system properly.
Hey, everybody.
Ryan Gromfin here – author, speaker, chef, restaurateur, and the founder of therestaurantboss.com
as well as clickbacon.com – and I get this a lot.
When I'm working with clients or going through their POS system trying to get really accurate
data for food costing and such like that, I see a lot of mistakes in the way that their
POS system is set up. One of the most common mistakes I see is the
way combo meals are set up.
A lot of times what I see is that someone will have, let's say, like, a hamburger and
then a hamburger combo meal as two separate buttons, and they’ll have that all the way
throughout their menu.
So, maybe if it's more of a quick service or a fast food restaurant, right, they'll
have, like, a hamburger, a cheeseburger, a double cheeseburger, a chicken sandwich, a
fish sandwich, whatever, and then they'll have the actual item and then the item combo.
The problem with that is that when you go to run a PMIX report, a product mix report,
to find out how much of each item you're selling, you've got to look in a lot of different places
to get the data that you want.
What you're better off doing is setting up all of your items as the A La Carte price
and then having a make combo button or just a combo button.
So, in this case, maybe it's, like, $2.59 to turn anything on your menu into a combo,
like, to add fries and a drink.
So then, instead, of hitting the cheeseburger combo button – the one button – you would
hit two buttons.
You would hit the cheeseburger button and then have a modifier pop-up that says combo,
and then hit the combo button.
So, on the receipt, it's 2 different line items that equal the combo price, but when
you go to do reporting and find out how much of everything you're selling, you're going
to have a much clearer picture of what's actually happening in your restaurant.
It's these little tips that make everything that much easier.
I hope you enjoyed this week's video and I look forward to seeing you next week with
another great training video to help your restaurant increase profits and operate more smoothly.
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