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Practical guides for Singapore F&B chains — POS selection, central kitchen management, QR ordering, and staff scheduling compliance.
22 October 2026
How to Open a Second Restaurant Outlet in Singapore: The Operating Side
A practical checklist for Singapore F&B owners opening a second outlet: what to write down before you leave the first one, how to keep dishes the same, who runs which outlet, how stock moves between them, and how to read two outlets' numbers side by side.
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17 October 2026
How Outlets Order from a Central Kitchen: Cut-off Times, Par Levels and Receiving
A practical guide for Singapore restaurant chains: how to set an ordering cut-off that works backwards from production, how to calculate par levels per outlet, how to receive against the order, and the month-end review that keeps it honest.
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11 October 2026
Restaurant Staff Scheduling in Singapore: What to Check Before You Publish a Roster
A practical guide to rostering restaurant staff in Singapore after the July 2026 Progressive Wage Model increase: the Employment Act and PWM rules a roster has to respect, a checklist to run before you publish, questions to ask when comparing scheduling software, and how MakanCloud generates and checks a monthly roster.
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9 October 2026
QR Ordering Update: Sold-Out Dishes, Waiter Calls and Pickup Numbers
MakanCloud's QR ordering now has optional settings for sold-out dishes, English dish details and allergens, per-dish notes, calling a waiter, party size, menu banners, counter pickup numbers, order progress and e-receipts. Everything is off or empty by default. Here is what each one does and where to switch it on.
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6 October 2026
Try MakanCloud in 20 Minutes: A Guided Tour of the Demo Restaurant
Leave an email and you are inside a three-outlet Singapore restaurant with 90 days of trading history. This walkthrough shows you what to click, in what order: ring up a sale, order from your phone like a diner, read the owner's reports, reprice a dish, place a central-kitchen order and check the roster.
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6 October 2026
Getting Started with MakanCloud: From Sign-up to Your First Receipt
You have started a free trial. Now what? This guide walks through the seven jobs between sign-up and a working counter: account, POS terminal, first shift, menu import, dish photos, GST and payments, and printers. For a limited time we will do the fiddly parts for you, free.
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5 October 2026
Case Study: How Tin Lok Xian Runs 13 Outlets and a Central Kitchen, and Saves 5–6 Hours a Day on Ordering
Tin Lok Xian, a Singapore Chinese restaurant group, supplies 13 outlets from one central kitchen. In five months on MakanCloud it has run 2,400+ delivery orders worth S$1.1M+, with order value visible at the moment of ordering and month-end data showing what sells. Here is what changed when ordering stopped being a manual job.
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10 September 2026
Singapore Restaurant POS Pricing Compared: The Real Cost of Growing from One Outlet to Five
Compare MakanCloud, Qashier, StoreHub, Eats365, RestoSuite and iCHEF on public pricing, features and fit for single outlets, growing chains and central kitchens.
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31 August 2026
QR Ordering in Singapore: What It Actually Costs (2026)
The subscription is the small number. Using published Singapore rates as of 31 August 2026, here is the full cost of running QR ordering — software, payment rails, hardware, and the two weeks of setup nobody quotes for.
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21 July 2026
Central Kitchen Software: What Actually Runs a Commissary (Singapore, 2026)
Search "central kitchen Singapore" and you get factory units for rent. Here is what happens inside one — the seven daily checkpoints, which two get skipped, and when software starts to matter.
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20 July 2026
Best Restaurant POS System in Singapore (2026): RestoSuite vs Qashier vs StoreHub vs Eats365 vs MakanCloud
An honest, fact-checked comparison of the restaurant POS systems Singapore F&B chains actually shortlist in 2026 — pricing, features, and where each one falls short.
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