
Create a list of currently available coupons, discounts and promotions. Track
customer response, redemption details and effectiveness of every promotion.
It's Easier to Keep a Customer than Get a New Customer
It is a commonly held belief that a business will spend five times more to get a
new customer than it needs to spend to get comparable revenue from an existing
customer. Affordable Point of Sale Solution gives a restaurant the system it
needs to continually communicate with existing customers, encouraging them to
order more and order more frequently.
Lifetime Value
The value of a new customer is important, but the lifetime value of an existing
customer is even more important. Many restaurants expend a great deal of time and
money to get new customers to the exclusion of improving relationships with
customers they already have.
If a restaurant spends $500 to get 30 new customers who each place a $15 order,
the total new revenue will almost meet the cost of the advertising. The problem
is that if 25% of these new customers order again, these new customers are
profitable only if each retained new customer orders three or more times.
Balancing new customer marketing activities with offers directed to existing
customers is vital to a restaurant's success. Restaurants using a POS software know their customers and their buying habits,
giving them the power to emphasize existing customers in their business-building
activities.
Consistent, Reliable Source of Orders
Every restaurant manager recognizes their customers who order consistently. They
know that the majority of their orders every day are placed by existing customers.
Existing customers are the most consistent, reliable source of regular business.
Make Good Customers Great Customers
Affordable Point of Sale Solution pinpoints good customers so you can communicate
with them more frequently and more effectively! Identify customers by their
longevity, their order frequency, their lifetime value and more. A good customer
is worth the extra care it takes to keep them coming back again and again.

Entering discounts and tracking promotions is easier with the POS'
coupon and discount tracking features. Each coupon or discount is created with valid days,
dates and times, how to calculate the discount, and the items to which the discount applies.
Add-On Order Promotions
POS makes it easy for a restaurant to encourage
add-on of extra items with every order. When offering incentives to servers or
order taking staff, sales achievements can be tracked for add-on items.
Customer Retention and Satisfaction
Restaurant managers are sometimes unaware that customer relationships are
critical to a successful restaurant. The loss of a dissatisfied customer is a huge cost.
- On average, 50% of dissatisfied customers will complain to a front-line employee
- Only 1% to 5% of dissatisfied customers will escalate their complaint to a manager
- 91% of dissatisfied customers will not buy again from a company that displeased them
- Complaining customers whose complaints are satisfied are significantly more loyal
than customers who have never been dissatisfied
When a customer disappears the most controllable cause is dissatisfaction. Contacting an
inactive customer repeatedly and with increasingly attractive offers to become active
again is the most effective marketing expenditure a restaurant can make.
When Active Customers Become Inactive
POS offers reports detailing which previously active
customers have not ordered in a specific period of time. This information permits
contacting of customers with coupons and other enticements to order again. When active
customers stay inactive even though they have been offered generous incentives, it's
time for a manager to contact the customer personally.
Early Warning of Food Quality or Staff Problems
Inactive customer follow-up gives a manager first-hand experience with customer
complaints. An informed manager can easily judge the quality of their restaurant's
food and service, then make changes to keep customers happy. Generous problem-solving
attention from a manager is often all that's needed to transform a dissatisfied
customer into a raving fan.
Managers Stay Involved
Keeping managers informed and involved is the best way to improve a restaurant's
success. Busy managers spending time operating the restaurant are far less effective
than managers who are in touch with their customers!
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