Power BI Touche(Point of Sale )

F&B – Analysis of Data


A POS software has a rich set of reports which cater to both

OPERATIONAL ANALYTICAL

Check wise data for revenue, settlements, taxes etc.

Days summary

Item Sales on specific date(s)

Periodic Summary

Sales History

Revenue, Settlements, taxes etc. with MTD and YTD data


But are the reports enough

to analyze?


More questions that come to the mind…..

How do I know the best selling items in April, served for dinner…...

….for the two restaurants, but not the Bar…

……best selling items in Christmas..


…how to handle external factors, like…..

What sells when the temperature crosses 40 Celsius?...

Does the revenue go down when it rains above a certain level?....

Do the covers increase when there is a home match for the local team?


The question is, if the reports cannot give me the information, then who/what can?


Is it a spreadsheet tool, like Excel?

Not really…

You must be really good at excel to setup the sheets you require.

You must know the database to be able to get the correct data into Excel and then setup formulae (and these are complex) to analyze them.

And when the database changes (due to version upgrades), you start all over again.


Power Touché


What is ?

New Microsoft Business Intelligence product line.

Aimed at business power users and end-users

Rich interactive reports, dashboards, charts, graphs, and maps

Minimize clicks to complete tasks


What can Power Touché do?

It can report from your operational data. Not just in a tabular format but with different visualizations.

It can link the structured(operational data) to the unstructured (external factors like weather, events/holidays) and then analyze the data on that basis

As it does not directly connect to the data on the premises the data privacy is maintained.Speed of operations is not affected.

F&B – Analysis of DataWhat do I see in Power Touché? My Business at a glance

F&B – Analysis of DataLet’s go deeper into this and look for the year 2014

Do you notice the unusual spike in

my covers in Aug. (My APC will take

a sudden hit in this month.

F&B – Analysis of DataAnd the year 2015

F&B – Analysis of DataLet’s compare the month of Aug for the 2 years– 2014 and 2015.

F&B – Analysis of DataDrilling down further. Is this happening on Weekdays or Weekends? (Have also selected Chargeable checks)

F&B – Analysis of DataDrilling down further. Is this happening on Weekdays or Weekends?

Aug Weekends do not have a large variance. 1754 vs 1875

F&B – Analysis of DataThe weekdays seem to be where the issue is. If I had so many covers coming into my Restaurants during the weekdays, why has the revenue not gone up?

F&B – Analysis of DataMy Average per cover in Aug 2014 is only 627 as against 962 in Aug 2015.

Did I give too many discounts in that month?

Lets find out……

F&B – Analysis of DataThe discount report for all the years.

Lets drill down with the same parameters as we had done earlier.

F&B – Analysis of DataNotice that the net discounts given for Aug in the 2 years is not much.

F&B – Analysis of DataIn Aug 2014, a net discount is just 2% of the revenue

F&B – Analysis of DataSo operationally there is no reason why our Revenue is low in this month.

Were there some external factors which affected the revenue?

Were the prices lowered in the month due to a competing restaurant which recently opened in the vicinity?

Were there some promotions running during the period?

Maybe, there are more…..

F&B – Analysis of DataSo, through Power Touché, we have taken up a business issue and tried to get to the bottom of it.

Same can be done with other problems as well.

F&B – Analysis of DataHow does the data flow?

F&B – Analysis of DataWhat do you need to bring your data to life?

A browser Smart Phones/Tablets

And a little help from us

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Power BI Touche(Point of Sale )

Data & Analytics

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