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POS stands for point of sale — but the term covers far more than a register at the counter. This guide explains what POS means, what a point of sale system includes, how a transaction works, and what small restaurants should look for in a system built for how they actually operate.

Opa Cafe, a five-person Mediterranean café in San Francisco, was losing orders to unreliable delivery tablets and had no website of its own. After moving to Orders.co, its branded ordering site became its busiest channel—11,862 orders and $275,702.83 in sales—while DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub kept bringing in new customers.

A growing share of your covers walk in alone, and most restaurants still treat them like a seating problem instead of a guest worth winning. Solo diners visit often, order predictably, and turn tables fast. Here’s how to set up your floor, menu, and service to earn their repeat business.

Dinner is being assembled from sides, shareables, and drinks—not entrées. Here’s how operators can build mix-and-match paths, reduce waste, and use menu tech plus loyalty reactivation to keep guests coming back.

Health-conscious diners aren’t a niche anymore — they’re your regulars, and serving them profitably is an execution problem, not a menu-design one. Here’s how to meet the demand with modifiers on your best sellers, honest calorie and macro counts, and orders that land in a channel you actually own.

Cozy Cafe & Restaurant’s online orders were growing, but juggling separate delivery apps and tablets kept pulling staff away from customers. See how the restaurant brought its delivery platforms and direct website ordering into one workflow with Orders.co — and reported 60% growth in online sales across a 102-day period.

More of your future customers are asking ChatGPT for dinner recommendations instead of scrolling Google. The catch: chatgpt restaurant search reads everything it can find about you and answers in one shot, so thin or inconsistent information means it passes you over. Here’s how AI restaurant search works and what to fix to get recommended.

If your Your Fare integration keeps dropping orders mid-rush, you don’t need a workaround, you need a replacement. Here’s how to compare alternatives and switch providers without losing a single order along the way.

Your dining room goes quiet between lunch and dinner, but the same customers walk past your door three or four times a week for a $6 drink. The “little treat” has become one of the most reliable reasons people come in — and one of the steadiest margins on the menu. Here’s how to build a beverage program that fills your dead hours and lifts checks without wrecking your ticket times.

Someone lands on your site hungry and wants your menu, hours, or a way to order in a couple of taps. If your navigation makes them dig, they don’t complain — they leave. Here’s how to build a menu structure that gets guests where they’re going, from information architecture to mobile.

Opening a restaurant soon? Use this pre-open tech checklist to set up your POS, online ordering, network, security, and management tools in the right order—plus see how Orders.co helps small restaurants grow from day one.

RetailNOW brings the retail IT channel to Las Vegas again this year, and Orders.co will have a booth on the floor. If you’re a POS dealer, a VAR, or you consult with multi-location restaurant groups, that’s who we built this for. Arsen Stepanyan, our co-founder and CEO, and Harry Ayvazyan will both be at the […]