Developing restaurant information system to support decision making

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discuss how far the use of information systems and the effectiveness of information systems to assist in decision making in a restaurant, so that the system can be developed according to the needs in decision making. The method used in this research was descriptive method by using several references from several journals and previous studies to describe how information systems were developed for restaurants. This study discusses the display of information systems that can be used by a restaurant in loading transaction data and transaction reports that have been carried out, so that it can help the cashier to calculate the total transactions made by consumers, and assist in making data on income and expenditure, so they can calculate profit and loss at a restaurant. The results of this study indicate that the existence of an information system in a restaurant that contains various income report data, per-item income reports, and income statements, can help restaurant owners in making decisions, because restaurant owners can make decisions based on data which is accurately recorded in an information system.