Kyle the Bartender was a Godsend. His experience brought us many timesaving and moneysaving procedures. One of our best decisions was changing our pricing system. When we opened, we set prices and let the POS system calculate the sales tax and total sale. Making change was time consuming and sometimes challenging for the teenagers we hired, leading to long lines at the counter.

Kyle’s idea was to round off prices to the nearest quarter. So, I sat down and calculated every item’s price plus tax and then rounded to the nearest quarter. We changed the POS system to handle the new pricing. It was amazing how much time we saved when we didn’t have to count pennies.

One glitch. Hunt Brothers was great about providing signs, flyers, and handouts. However, most of their preprinted materials had their suggested retail prices on them. Hunt Brothers doesn’t require that you charge their prices, but they won’t print your signs with different prices. So I trained our employees to give change to anyone who complained that our prices didn’t match the signs. I think there was only one item that we charged 9 cents more than the sign price. I highly recommend this pricing system, especially in an arena environment.