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IT Support Tailored to the Unique Challenges of the Restaurant Industry

Many IT challenges faced by restaurant brands resonate across industries: tech talent shortages (and the consequent high costs of talent acquisition), high turnover of stretched staff, poor user experiences, and a growing technology stack to accommodate changing requirements.  

At the same time, the restaurant business faces unique challenges. Unplanned IT downtimes and Point of Sale (POS) system outages cripple operations – leading to revenue loss and damaged customer trust.  

Most multi-location restaurants also struggle with the complexity of providing support for third parties such as franchisees, as their technology infrastructure can be diverse.  

Tight margins, staff shortages, rising food costs, and rapidly changing consumer behavior have made restaurants increasingly reliant on technology to optimize operations. At a time when a single bad experience is enough for consumers to abandon a brand, restaurant operators are increasingly outsourcing IT support to keep their stores running smoothly.   

The unique challenges faced by the industry call for a support team who can offer more than cheap talent and general IT knowledge, providing the right tools, strategies, and wide-ranging experience supporting restaurant operations to meet their needs effectively.   

Leading restaurant brands rely on Auxis’ end-to-end suite of innovative IT services that are tailored to their specific business needs, leveraging top-quality, cost-effective, multilingual talent from our nearshore delivery centers in Latin America.  

Our 24x7x365 service desk solutions and management and monitoring services for infrastructure, security, and restaurant systems are aimed at improving IT performance and identifying issues before they impact your stores. Through best practices and cutting-edge technology like AI-powered automation, we go beyond troubleshooting to deliver comprehensive technical support.  

Together with our pioneering Brand Protection model, Auxis’ IT support for restaurants help brands gain a competitive edge in the crowded restaurant market – offering a comprehensive solution that better supports store success and ensures ideal brand experiences for customers. 

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Key Facts

$855

per hour is lost by stores when a point of sale (POS) device goes down, with 87% of stores having to wait for up to four hours for support.

Source: Retail Touchpoints study

7% to 10%

of restaurant brands’ revenue is now spent on IT, and this level of spending is expected to persist as they seek technology solutions for operational challenges.

Source: Bank of America: State of the Restaurant Industry 2023

76%

of restaurant operators say technology gives them a competitive edge. 

Source: National Restaurant Association: State of the Restaurant Industry 2024

Auxis IT Services for Restaurants

IT Store Support

  • One-stop shop for handling and resolving issues related to all IT infrastructure across owned and franchised restaurant locations and corporate offices.
  • Services include supporting integrations with online and third-party delivery platforms, resolving issues involving the robustness and security of network infrastructure, and more.
  • Support for industry-leading POS systems including Revel, Aloha, Toast, Qu Beyond, and more to help clients resolve issues quickly and effectively through prompt issue triaging, remote troubleshooting, and 24/7 support.
  • Cutting-edge automation including chatbots to enable agents to manage multiple interactions across channels, ticket creation bots, virtual agents to assist our service desk agents, automated ticket resolution, and more.
  • Real-time analytics to drive continuous improvement and high performance.

POS Support

  • Centralized POS administration to handle complex POS support tasks for security, consistency, accuracy, and operational efficiency across the entire restaurant operation.
  • Services include guidance on POS software features for effective menu management, troubleshooting assistance, and more.
  • Maintaining documentation that outlines step-by-step procedures for regular admin tasks and third-party platform integrations.

Infrastructure & Security Management & Monitoring

  • Proactive monitoring and management of in-store IT infrastructure to reduce the time taken to detect and resolve high-business-impact outages.
  • Security monitoring for vulnerabilities and threats.

Proactive Support & Health Checks

  • Pioneering service proactively addresses store IT satisfaction even when there are no problems.
  • Health checks, in the form of periodic virtual store visits, with the purpose of:
    • Reviewing ticket history.
    • Identifying issues that might not be getting resolved in a timely manner.
    • Proactively resolving issues.
    • Ensuring service satisfaction.
    • Providing a voice to locations to ensure glitches are resolved before becoming major issues and affecting business.

Monitoring & Management of Digital Media

  • Activations, management, and troubleshooting for all in-store digital signage: digital menu boards, video walls, and other custom solutions.
  • Managing content from third-party vendors.
  • Monitoring and day-to-day remote support by phone and email for store owners, managers, and technicians onsite. Resources also provide end-to-end support throughout a ticket lifecycle for customer locations.

New Store Support

  • End-to-end coordination of new store setup, relocations, transfers, and closures.
  • Configuration and commission of store equipment.
  • Project management and end-to-end dashboard visibility.
  • Construction management coordination.

IT Store Support

IT Store Support

  • One-stop shop for handling and resolving issues related to all IT infrastructure across owned and franchised restaurant locations and corporate offices.
  • Services include supporting integrations with online and third-party delivery platforms, resolving issues involving the robustness and security of network infrastructure, and more.
  • Support for industry-leading POS systems including Revel, Aloha, Toast, Qu Beyond, and more to help clients resolve issues quickly and effectively through prompt issue triaging, remote troubleshooting, and 24/7 support.
  • Cutting-edge automation including chatbots to enable agents to manage multiple interactions across channels, ticket creation bots, virtual agents to assist our service desk agents, automated ticket resolution, and more.
  • Real-time analytics to drive continuous improvement and high performance.

POS Support

  • Centralized POS administration to handle complex POS support tasks for security, consistency, accuracy, and operational efficiency across the entire restaurant operation.
  • Services include guidance on POS software features for effective menu management, troubleshooting assistance, and more.
  • Maintaining documentation that outlines step-by-step procedures for regular admin tasks and third-party platform integrations.

Infrastructure & Security Management & Monitoring

  • Proactive monitoring and management of in-store IT infrastructure to reduce the time taken to detect and resolve high-business-impact outages.
  • Security monitoring for vulnerabilities and threats.

Proactive Support & Health Checks

  • Pioneering service proactively addresses store IT satisfaction even when there are no problems.
  • Health checks, in the form of periodic virtual store visits, with the purpose of:
    • Reviewing ticket history.
    • Identifying issues that might not be getting resolved in a timely manner.
    • Proactively resolving issues.
    • Ensuring service satisfaction.
    • Providing a voice to locations to ensure glitches are resolved before becoming major issues and affecting business.

Monitoring & Management of Digital Media

  • Activations, management, and troubleshooting for all in-store digital signage: digital menu boards, video walls, and other custom solutions.
  • Managing content from third-party vendors.
  • Monitoring and day-to-day remote support by phone and email for store owners, managers, and technicians onsite. Resources also provide end-to-end support throughout a ticket lifecycle for customer locations.

New Store Support

  • End-to-end coordination of new store setup, relocations, transfers, and closures.
  • Configuration and commission of store equipment.
  • Project management and end-to-end dashboard visibility.
  • Construction management coordination.

Nearshore Pioneers, Located in the Top Destinations of Latin America

With over 25 years of shared services experience in the region, Auxis’ BPO services are provided from Latin America’s top nearshore locations. Restaurant brands receive critical advantages like time zone compatibility that enables real-time collaboration, strong cultural affinity, and highly educated talent with exceptional proficiency in English and many other languages, strong critical-thinking skills, and familiarity of North American business practices.

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Costa Rica

Most mature shared services destination in the Americas, with over 350 multinationals providing business services from the country.

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Colombia

Ranked #1 in Latin America for availability of skilled talent (IMD World Talent Ranking) and #1 for financial attractiveness in LATAM (Kearney Global Services Location Index).

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Supporting Hubs

Our support hubs offer the best quality, technically skilled talent from top nearshoring destinations including Mexico, Argentina, and Guatemala, and use best practices, technology, and innovation to drive continuous process improvement.

We Bring Cutting-Edge Technology to Help You Work Faster and Smarter

At Auxis, we adapt to your current systems while suggesting additional best-in-class tools to drive higher levels of efficiency, automation, and real-time insights. That includes a full suite of process automation, AI, analytics, and productivity technology, such as:

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Trusted by Leading Organizations from Mid-Market to Enterprise

From traditional restaurants to QSR brands to foodservice companies, Auxis brings comprehensive experience across multiple sectors in the restaurant industry:   

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The Auxis Difference

Why Auxis is Different from Other Restaurant IT Support Providers

Leading restaurant brands rely on Auxis IT support to increase revenue, optimize operations, and inspire customer loyalty. Our extensive experience in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry further helps us craft solutions that maximize value for the franchise model.

We understand that operations across diverse locations can be complicated, incorporating varied store technology, a variety of end users like franchisees and store employees with different needs, menu and pricing updates, third-party delivery synchronization, network connectivity, etc. At the same time, IT support needs to easily scale to accommodate growth. We bring the right technology, 24×7 coverage, and top tech talent to ensure effective management of IT infrastructure and deliver quality POS help desk for restaurants, and POS support across locations.

We are nearshore outsourcing pioneers, recognized annually on IAOP’s Outsourcing Global 100 list. We offer clients the best combination of proximity with affordability: top talent based out of our delivery centers in Latin America, working in an overlapping time zone with close cultural alignment to the U.S.

Going beyond basic help desk skills, we offer highly educated support agents with critical-thinking acumen, industry-specific expertise, strong English-speaking skills, and multilingual proficiency to easily communicate with store staff, enabling faster issue resolution and better support for our clients. LATAM workers also consider IT service desk a viable career path, helping reduce attrition and the high turnover usually associated with the sector in the U.S.

We lay great emphasis on investing in technical certifications for our support teams as well as training them on soft skills and empathizing with the user, to ensure effective communication and rapid issue resolution.

Our partnerships with leading technology providers such as Microsoft, UiPath, LogicMonitor, and more ensure we have the technological sophistication to manage the complexity of multi-location restaurant IT infrastructure and end user support for small to large restaurant operators. Our 25-plus years of leading business process transformations also helps us strategize and implement the best practices and approach to meet this industry’s unique needs   

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