APPY Blog — Guides for restaurants

How to choose, digitize and optimize a restaurant: POS, food cost, e-invoicing, digital menus and legal compliance.

How to choose a restaurant POS system — the complete 2026 guide

From orders and Glovo/Wolt/Bolt integrations to e-invoicing and hidden commissions — the criteria that actually matter when picking a restaurant POS.

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Operations 6 min read

How to calculate restaurant food cost (formula + examples)

Food cost decides whether a restaurant makes a profit. The formula, theoretical vs. actual, and how to reduce it without cutting quality.

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Compliance 7 min read

e-Invoicing for restaurants in Romania: the complete guide (B2B & B2C)

What e-invoicing is, the legal deadlines, how to issue it straight from the POS and the fines you avoid by staying compliant.

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Compliance 6 min read

A legally compliant digital menu: allergens, additives and nutrition

What consumer-protection rules require — ingredients, allergens, additives, nutrition — and how to show them correctly with a QR menu.

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Legislation 10 min read

Time-Tracking Under the Romanian Labor Code in 2026: Employer Obligations, What You Must Record, and How to Avoid ITM Fines

A complete 2026 guide to mandatory time-tracking (pontaj) under the Romanian Labor Code: what your working-hours record must contain, how long to keep it, how an ITM inspection works, what undeclared work costs you, and why digital time-tracking is becoming the standard.

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Time tracking 10 min read

Calculating overtime, night hours and public-holiday work: a complete guide with examples

How to correctly calculate overtime, the night-work premium and work on legal holidays under the Romanian Labour Code, with step-by-step numeric examples and stacked premiums.

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Time tracking 9 min read

Timesheet template: what it must contain and how to fill it in correctly

A complete guide to the timesheet template (collective attendance sheet): required columns, the legend of symbols, the PDF/Excel version and the difference between manual and automatic time tracking.

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Time-clock 11 min read

GPS, selfie and GDPR clock-in methods: what is legal in Romania

Card/PIN, GPS geofencing, biometric fingerprint or non-biometric selfie? We compare clock-in methods and their GDPR implications so you pick a legally sound, buddy-punch-proof solution.

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Fiscal 11 min read

ANAF cash register 2026: obligations, reporting and fiscal integration

How electronic cash registers connected to Romania's ANAF work in 2026, what obligations you have, how reporting works and what it all means for a HoReCa business.

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Fiscal 10 min read

SAF-T for restaurants: the complete guide to the D406 return in HoReCa

What SAF-T (D406) is, which restaurants must file, what data ANAF requires, deadlines and phasing — plus how an integrated POS with stock and e-invoicing makes reporting feasible.

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Guide 11 min read

Glovo Wolt Bolt POS Integration: The Complete Manager's Guide

How to connect your POS to Glovo, Wolt and Bolt Food without the tablet chaos: auto-sync into POS and KDS, menu sync, zero lost orders at peak, and the truth about commissions.

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Guide 11 min read

Kitchen Display System (KDS): the complete restaurant guide for 2026

What a kitchen display system is, how it works, why it replaces paper tickets, and the metrics it improves. A practical 2026 buyer's guide for hospitality.

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Guide 9 min read

How to Build Restaurant Customer Loyalty: The Complete Guide

Concrete loyalty strategies and mechanics for restaurants: points, digital stamp cards, wallet, raffles, push, and why you must own your customer data instead of the aggregators.

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Legislation 9 min read

Tipping in Romanian hospitality: how to handle it correctly, step by step

Tips go on a separate line of the fiscal receipt, are taxed at 10% and end up in two different filings. What a restaurant has to do, in order.

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Legislation 10 min read

Permits for opening a restaurant in Romania: what you need, in what order

DSV, fire safety, environment, city hall — which are mandatory, which do not actually exist, and how long it realistically takes to open the door.

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Legislation 8 min read

Card payment is mandatory in Romania from 2026: what it means for your restaurant

Law 239/2025 removed the turnover threshold. Fines reach 50,000 lei, and the law does not dictate which device you use — only that it works.

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Operations 8 min read

The reservation book and no-shows: how to stop an empty table at peak

The notebook at the door costs more than it looks. What a digital reservation record needs, and what actually reduces no-shows.

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Guide 7 min read

How to See Who Is Calling Your Restaurant, Right in the POS

Phone orders still start, too often, with “what’s your name and where do we deliver?”. What it means to see the caller in the POS, the two ways to get it, and what to check before you choose.

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Operations 9 min read

The six reports a restaurant actually uses

You do not need a dashboard with twenty charts. You need six numbers you can read in five minutes and act on.

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