Where the food management company that operates your corporate cafeteria can meet your customers’ requirements, it is more likely to become successful. Should you extend this flexibility in offering mobile points of sale in different areas of your cafeteria rather than one fixed till location?
Cost Versus Flexibility
By asking your customers about their preferred methods of payment, you will quickly understand their favorites. You will need to consider the initial and ongoing costs of providing flexible pay points as you contemplate the balance between providing what is required and offering unnecessary alternatives.
The challenge of collecting the correct funds in the easiest possible manner is one which every food management company will need to assess.
You may choose an account charging system where you bill the employee once a month, and perhaps this is removed directly from their paycheck to reduce the cost of chasing funds and losing control over your cash flow.
The food management company can increase cash flow by taking payment at the point of sale, and the method may depend upon the size of the operation.
Where employees can purchase different types of food from different locations within the corporate cafeteria, there may be an obvious requirement for payment methods in different areas of the location.
The corporate cafeteria management may decide that it is better for all purchases to be paid in one prominent place.
With modern technology, it is easy to provide mobile card readers so that physical cash is removed from the operation wherever possible. Apart from the risk of fraud, and this may place the employee’s work position in jeopardy, taking payments direct from cards is effective and suitable for many occasions.
Requiring customers to pay by cash may belong to the previous generation, and it is important for any corporate cafeteria to keep ahead of new technology as their customers’ demands change.
