Manage your restaurant operations with a single POS and management software
- POS & self-ordering
- Kitchen Management
- Guest service
- Inventory control
- Guest loyalty
- Reporting
- ERP
POS & self-ordering
Optimize your restaurant’s operations with versatile POS options and self-ordering tools. Create a faster, more convenient experience for guests while improving efficiency for your staff.
- Run the LS Central POS on a computer, tablet, stationary POS hardware, mobile device, or self-ordering kiosk. Choose the devices that best suit your restaurant’s flow, and allow your team to deliver great service wherever needed.
- Guests can place orders from their table, self-service kiosks, or by scanning a QR code. Orders are routed directly to the right KDS screen or printer, reducing wait times, minimizing errors, and enhancing service speed during busy times.
- Connect your physical restaurants with online ordering seamlessly. Let guests place orders through your website or mobile app, ensuring orders are prepared and marked accurately, whether for takeout or delivery, and maintaining a smooth operation.
- Manage seating more efficiently by assigning tables with manual or automatic allocations. Track free tables in real time, manage waitlists during peak hours, and customize time slots for quicker turnovers or longer dining periods.
- Enhance your reservation process with the Bookings for LS Central add-on. Handle reservations from any channel—online, by phone, or at the POS—and track table status to ensure all guests are served promptly stress-free.
Kitchen Management
Simplify back-of-house operations with precise order routing, clear communication, and real-time adjustments. Ensure your kitchen operates efficiently to serve guests accurately and on time.
- Connect the POS with KDS and kitchen printers to send orders directly to the correct station in the right order. This eliminates errors, improves accuracy, and ensures dishes are prepared as guests expect them.
- Offer detailed dietary, allergen, and ingredient information on your menu, empowering guests to customize their meals. These instructions are sent to the kitchen automatically, ensuring accurate preparation tailored to individual preferences..
- Keep orders on schedule with real-time monitoring and updates. Highlight allergies, adjust timing for delayed items, and ensure every dish is prepared and served in the correct sequence, even during peak hours.
- Optimize your menu with time-of-day or special occasion modifiers. Set quick ingredient adjustments to reduce customization complexity, allowing staff to process orders faster and more accurately.
Guest service
Enhance your team’s ability to provide outstanding guest experiences with tools that simplify service and payment processes while reducing operational stress.
- Provide front-of-house staff with real-time order updates at the POS, eliminating unnecessary trips to the kitchen. This helps your team focus on guest engagement and delivering a more personalized experience.
- Handle complex group payments with ease. Split bills, transfer checks, or combine orders directly from the POS, allowing staff to adapt to any table’s unique needs quickly and efficiently.
- Simplify training with an intuitive, user-friendly system. Easily move employees between roles, locations, or departments without extensive retraining, saving time and ensuring consistent service quality.
Inventory control
Stay in control of your stock and ingredient usage across all locations with tools that ensure accuracy, prevent waste, and improve efficiency.
- Sync recipes with the POS so every ingredient is automatically deducted from inventory when a dish is sold. Track usage in real time to ensure stock levels are accurate and up to date.
- Monitor inventory and stock availability across your entire restaurant chain. Automatically update digital menus when items sell out to avoid disappointing guests and keep operations running smoothly.
- Use automated replenishment tools to reorder ingredients based on demand and consumption. Optimize stock levels to minimize waste, prevent shortages, and keep your kitchen ready for any situation.
Guest loyalty
Drive customer retention with loyalty programs and promotions that align with guest preferences. Use customer insights to create personalized offers and campaigns that bring them back.
- Build flexible loyalty programs with customizable membership tiers and point systems. Use guest data to offer personalized rewards, send targeted promotions, and notify customers of special campaigns they’ll love.
- Track guest preferences and create effective promotions, such as happy hours, vouchers, or bundled meal deals. Measure ROI and refine campaigns to maximize their effectiveness.
- Design special pricing and discounts tailored to different locations and times. Offer weekday lunch deals, happy hours, or other creative promotions to engage your customers and boost sales.
Reporting
Understand your restaurant’s performance with detailed insights into sales, customer behavior, and operations. Use real-time data to make informed decisions and improve results across all locations.
- Monitor key metrics with Analytics for LS Central. Keep track of sales, transactions, and waste to measure performance by time period, location, or employee. Use this data to identify opportunities and improve efficiency.
- Evaluate menu profitability by tracking the cost of dishes compared to sales. Identify your best and worst-performing items, and make adjustments based on trends and customer preferences.
- Give your team secure, real-time access to reports and analytics, no matter where they are. Ensure everyone has the data they need to make decisions and align with your goals.
- Stay in control of your budget with tools for food costing, menu planning, and expense tracking. Set spending limits and choose flexible budgeting approaches to manage costs effectively.
ERP
LS Central extends Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a robust ERP hosted in the secure and highly reliable Microsoft cloud. Get rid of your legacy systems and of complex integrations that always break. With LS Central, you get all the functionality the Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP offers, plus advanced restaurant functionalities (like menu management, loyalty, Kitchen Display Systems, table management, and more) within one unified software solution.
- Collect all your business information in one database and work within a single environment. When your process a sale, take in stock, change a price or menu, your information is instantly updated across your enterprise.
- Better manage cash flow and budgeting, automate financial reconciliation, and simplify financial closing and reporting. Keep a clear overview of your costs, revenue, and profit within your enterprise with general ledger (GL) and account schedules reporting.
- Easily keep up with your sales and marketing. Manage your customer database within the Microsoft suite. Maintain a clear and connected overview of customers’ details in the central CRM and use their contact information to run targeted marketing campaigns.
- Simplify operations across your supply chain. Get clear visibility across purchasing, manufacturing, and stock. Engage with suppliers in a more cost-effective way, decrease your expenditure on materials, and ensure you produce within your supply and capacity limits.
- Administer staff roles and permissions and set access limitations for specific information and operations. You can also customize the interface, so it suits and support your business processes and add apps to extend the functionality when you need it.
- Grow your restaurant chain or food service business easily in the cloud and access your information anywhere. The Microsoft datacenter encryption automatically protects your data from unauthorized access, so you can store and transmit data securely within your business.