Cafe POS Software Menu creation comes with the additional task of including healthy food options for your customers. Whether managing diabetes or a heart condition through diet, guests now have better information about the nutritional value and take into account how each meal or snack choice will fit into their overall nutritional goals.
As a result of consumer awareness and growing demand, virtually every Café POS software menu has a selection of healthy menu items in each service of their menu rotation. These healthy choices don’t necessarily replace popular menu favorites like Chicken Fried Steak, Pizza, or Macaroni and Cheese, but instead, provide a range of healthy alternatives to café guests. Whether the guest selects a grilled chicken salad labeled as heart-healthy or decides to indulge in a grilled cheese sandwich with fries, the choice is left up to the guest.
Cafe POS Software Menu Tips
So how do you measure the performance of healthy cafe POS software menu items, and determine which ones should remain in the rotation, and which ones more appealing choices replace? Although the long line out the door whenever the Sushi Chef prepares fresh California Rolls at lunchtime is the only clue you will need to measure the popularity of the Sushi Bar, other items will require a review of historical sales data to evaluate their performance.
To track healthy meal sales, all menu items within the inventory file of the Café’s POS System should include an appropriate department, and then can sort further into a sub-department or sub-category. Label one of your sub-departments “Healthy” to track healthy sales. For example, the breakfast department could add an egg white omelet, then further sort this into the sub-department of Healthy. The lunch department may add a turkey and vegetable wrap, then add this to the sub-department Healthy. As a result of this categorization, both the egg white omelet and the turkey wrap will appear in the “Healthy” sub-department, which will make tracking and comparing their historical sales information an easy process.
Depending upon your POS system’s reporting abilities, an alternative approach is to create a Healthy Department, then create sub-departments of breakfast, lunch, etc., and then create reports using the Healthy Department as a sorting method. With either approach, sales history reporting is available to track the Café’s Healthy item sales.
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Menu items identified in historical sales reports as “not selling well” may either swap with other items or could include a discount to increase interest and incent better sales performance. The sale history data will show if the marketing is working on not working.
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