Point of Sale — Restaurant Operations
Hotel restaurants operate at a pace that leaves no room for error — servers manage multiple tables at once, kitchens race against the clock, and any miscommunication lands directly on the guest. I redesigned Hotelogix's POS around the operational reality of hotel food and beverage service, embedding with staff across three properties to rebuild order flow, kitchen communication, and table awareness from the ground up.
Project Snapshot
Built for restaurants that never slow down.
Designed a modern Point of Sale system to simplify restaurant operations, helping staff manage tables, orders, and kitchen coordination during peak service hours.
What I Owned
- Led the end-to-end redesign of the restaurant POS experience.
- Simplified table management and order workflows.
- Designed real-time operational interfaces for busy service environments.
- Collaborated with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success from discovery through implementation.
Designed for high-volume restaurant operations.
Helping restaurant teams manage tables, orders, and kitchen coordination with greater speed and operational efficiency.
High-Volume Service
Processing
Management
Coordination
Peak-hour restaurant operations were slowing service.
Managing tables, processing orders, coordinating kitchens, and serving guests required staff to constantly switch between operational tasks. The lack of a unified workflow created delays, increased manual effort, and slowed service during busy hours.
Understanding restaurant operations end to end.
Mapping the service journey helped identify operational bottlenecks from seating guests through order fulfillment and payment.
Designing a faster restaurant operating system.
Rather than optimizing individual screens, the redesign focused on creating connected workflows that reduced manual effort and supported fast-paced restaurant operations.
Building better interfaces with design systems.
A scalable design language built for hospitality operations — color, typography, spacing, and components designed for consistency across every POS module.
Designed for faster restaurant operations.
The redesigned POS streamlined restaurant workflows, helping teams manage tables, orders, and payments more efficiently during peak service.
Improvement in high-volume service
Faster order processing
Operational visibility
Restaurant workflows
Lessons Learned
Three pilot properties and a lot of hours on the service floor taught me what actually holds up under pressure. These six lessons now guide every product decision I make.
The best research happens off the screen.
Shadowing real dinner service surfaced constraints no interview could have.
One order touches every station.
A change at the table ripples through kitchen, bar, and the final bill.
Context beats convention every time.
Standard POS patterns fail if they ignore the physical room they're used in.
Role-specific design isn't a luxury.
Server, cashier, and kitchen operator each needed their own purpose-built view.
The best POS disappears into the service.
Staff should think about the guest, not the screen.
Speed is measured in taps, not features.
In peak service every extra tap has a real cost — efficiency has to be designed in.
Design systems unlock consistency at scale.
Shared components kept every POS module coherent as the product grew.
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