Assessment 1
Reducing administration tasks
Restaurant EPoS: Streamline your operations and increase profits
Take complete control over every aspect of your restaurant’s operations with unmatched business insights. Discover how Zonal’s restaurant EPoS can help you streamline your front and back-of-house operations, maximise your revenue and reduce costs, giving you more time to do what you do best – provide an excellent experience for your guests.
TRUSTED BY TOP RESTAURANT BRANDS ACROSS THE UK
Why Zonal is the best restaurant EPoS provider for businesses of all sizes
The best core EPoS for restaurants
“Zonal’s integrated Aztec EPoS system gives us the foundations on which we can build a fully integrated hospitality IT package that supports our teams and enhances our customer experience.”
CFO, Strada Restaurants
The best support
“From installation to training and ongoing customer care we have never looked back. To date, Zonal’s EPoS has been completely reliable and doesn’t fall down, which is such a comfort”
Mat Prowse, Partner, Rockfish
The best reporting
“The Zonal team not only had relevant sector experience, but their EPoS system gave us the integrated solution we were seeking. It offers a range of modules, giving us detailed and timely reports, with up to the minute performance data for each site.”
Central Operations Manager, Loungers
The perfect technology partner
“Technology was a key enabler and we quickly realised that Zonal had a grip on the critical issues that could impact and enable our growing business.”
Finance Director, Bistrot Pierre
A feature-rich and scalable restaurant EPoS system providing you with complete control
Products
Manage your restaurant’s entire product offering in one place. Complex product ranges with multiple portions and ingredients can be simply added and managed across the EPoS system for ordering, deliveries, stock control and sales.
Pricing
Gain total control over your pricing, either through a standard pricing structure across all of your restaurants, or with individual or multiple price bands for specific venues or areas. Save time by easily updating price changes, either in advance for automatic application or in bulk via importing changes.
Promotions
Create bespoke promotional activities, no matter how simple or complex, whether you run an individual restaurant or multi-site brand. Sales data can then be fed into your marketing system, enabling you to monitor the results of each promotion.
Finance
Zonal’s restaurant EPoS offers a complete cash management and reporting solution that delivers real-time visibility of all transactions to help you assess your business’s performance, with tight integrations to a wide range of third-party accounting packages.
Stock
Reduce your holdings, minimise wastage, and cut costs. Our fully-integrated, comprehensive stock management solution comes as standard with Zonal’s restaurant EPoS, and is one of the most powerful stock management solutions available on the market.
Reporting
Overcome obstacles, identify bottlenecks and maximise your revenue with help from a robust suite of over 200 reports. Whether it’s on a per-restaurant basis, or across your entire estate, get instant, detailed insights to help you make smarter business decisions.
Customise
Speed up service and streamline your front-of-house operations with customisable themes and designs, ensuring the right information is always available at the POS. Deliver menu planning, seasonal changes and special events by creating them in advance and scheduling their deployment.
Time & Attendance
Cut down on back office admin and better manage your team with an in-built staff management that lets you manage staff information, monitor payroll or even just create and share weekly rotas. You can also set sales targets and monitor performance, helping you to get the very best from your people.
Deposits
Accept deposits at the time of booking to mitigate the financial impact of no-shows in your restaurant, and accurately track them in the POS. Create multiple configurations to capture booking details alongside the type of deposit, and easily gain a full view of taken, redeemed and outstanding deposits.
Case Study: Watch why Rockfish use Zonal's Restaurant EPoS
“Zonal has played its part in our growth and our success of the business, because it has really helped us deliver. It’s been a really solid platform to work with”
Zonal provides a robust and reliable suite of solutions to help the team at Rockfish manage every aspect of their business – both front-of-house and operationally. In particular, Rockfish have benefitted from data capture and reporting functionality, providing them with detailed oversight of a number of areas within the business, such as stock levels and sales reports, enabling them to fine-tune their business.
Quality restaurant EPoS hardware that’s built to last
Our range of restaurant tech combines stylish features and smart functionality with a robust design that’s built to withstand the strains of everyday restaurant life, allowing your staff to work easily and efficiently.
Discover how our EPoS can deliver success in your restaurant
Our EPoS system is designed to meet the needs of any restaurant operation, from single-sites to national chains, available as both a software-only solution to enable you to make the most of your existing hardware, or complete with our own purpose-built hardware. It comes with the full complement of functionality that every restaurant needs as standard, meaning no hidden costs or additional fees, just great functionality – available from day one.
Manage products, price and promotions with ease
Maintain total control with a comprehensive solution to manage every aspect of your product offering. Zonal’s restaurant EPoS system includes a robust product management solution with features including recipe creation, purchasing information, product choices and instructions. Combined with an easy-to-use pricing module that enables you to quickly and easily make pricing changes that can be applied automatically, and extensive promotion creation tool to drive revenue, our restaurant EPoS provides you with all the tools you need to effectively maintain your product offering, all in one place.
- Create multiple product types including recipes, choices, prepared items and instructions
- Export/import functionality for pricing can yield significant time savings
- Convenient setup wizard for promotions
Better front-of-house management to help you serve more covers
Our EPoS for restaurants gives your staff all the tools they need to deliver speedier service and great experiences for your guests, whether it’s at a terminal or at the tableside. With real-time data allowing for live updates to product availability, minimal button presses with fully customisable themes and layouts, and no re-keying required, your staff can provide guests with a frictionless ordering experience that leaves a lasting impression.
- Real-time product availability available both at the till or on handheld devices
- Streamlined ordering process for speedier service
- Custom ordering journeys per-product to help staff upsell and drive additional revenue
Improved operational efficiency to reduce time spent on admin
In addition to a myriad of benefits for your front-of-house operations, our EPoS helps reduce the amount of unnecessary time your team spend on admin, freeing them up to spend more time with guests. Zonal’s EPoS includes a complete cash management solution, as well as built-in rota planning and staff management functionality that will help you to streamline every day tasks to reduce the need for manual intervention. What’s more, with in-built functionality to collect advance booking deposits, you can benefit from mitigated financial risk from no-shows without any of the associated operational headache.
- Tight integrations to a wide range of industry-standard accounting, payroll, and labour management packages
- Extensive automation capabilities massively reduce time spent at a desk for your team
- Deposits taken are automatically added to the session and included in the normal finance process
Complete control over your inventory
We know that in today’s trading environment, complete control over your inventory is essential. Our restaurant EPoS comes with a comprehensive stock management solution as standard, allowing you to replace guesswork with accurate, reliable data to ensure you’re ordering the right stock and that you’re not running out of anything important. Complete with comprehensive reporting and a two-tier hierarchy stock count on each product, our stock solution is invaluable for restaurant operators looking to manage costs and reduce waste.
- Multiple stock threads including food, wet, merchandise and retail goods
- Accurate, real-time stock counts on each product
- Ability to create multiple stock locations for greater accuracy
Detailed reporting across all aspects of your restaurant operations
Our restaurant EPoS has a robust reporting suite of over 200 reports to provide you and your team with detailed insight into all of the data your system collects. It will provide you with one version of the truth from across your entire business, meaning you’ll always be making decisions based on up-to-date, reliable data, helping you to identify any revenue maximising or cost saving opportunities quickly and effectively.
- Drill-down functionality for detailed analysis
- Custom reports and graphs
- Easy to set up and use
Next Steps
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Why Zonal is the best partner for your success
We've been providing hospitality technology with unbeatable UK customer support for over 40 years
No other provider has the wealth of industry knowledge and experience we’ve gained since 1979 in the hospitality sector. No other tech partner has a system that’s as powerful, flexible and customisable. And no other provider can make it easier for you to do what you do best: deliver great customer experiences and run profitable venues. Our award-winning UK-based training, project management and account management teams will support you every step of the way, and our dedicated support centre based in Edinburgh is available 8am-12am, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Zonal's complete hospitality tech stack
Our full range of connected hospitality technologies includes EPoS, inventory and order, reservations, table management, kitchen management, mobile/web order and pay apps, click and collect, property management, loyalty schemes, gift cards, business intelligence and over 200 integrations with 3rd party providers. Our solutions are all fully integrated with our EPoS, so spend data, visit frequency and stock availability is shared seamlessly between systems. The valuable insight this provides enables you to keep tight control over cash flow, make significant operational efficiencies and deliver a first-class customer experience.
