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Qu’s Spring Product Release Highlights
Discover the latest product updates designed to help you get the most out of every shift, every guest, and every dollar.
June 17, 2025
Running a profitable restaurant is all about getting the details right. From knowing where an order is in the kitchen to having instant insight into which upsell recommendations are driving the greatest gains in average order value. When you keep a close eye on these details, you can transform the guest experience and drive real value to the bottom line.
Imagine this:
Your kitchen runs like clockwork, your POS accepts multiple currencies with zero hassle, you know whether your appliances are performing efficiently, and you can ask an app to deliver real-time insights with a simple question, even using your own voice.
At Qu, we’re focused on giving you data-driven tools to optimize every part of the order journey so you can run a more efficient, profitable business. Our Spring Product Highlights are packed with real-world solutions designed to:
- Improve the speed of service through detailed kitchen orchestration and insights
- Boost staff productivity and clarity with item state management
- Delight guests with branded kiosk videos and charitable options
The future of restaurant tech isn’t some far-off dream. With Qu, it’s already here, and it’s built to help you get the most out of every shift, every guest, and every dollar.
Optimize Kitchen Orchestration - Item State Management
Item State Management transforms your kitchen into a well-oiled machine where expo stations instantly know when items are ready. Staff never duplicate work, and dependent stations begin production at precisely the right moment. Visual indicators prevent costly errors and missed items, while shared workstations allow multiple staff to coordinate complex tickets seamlessly. Now we’re talking about Kitchen & Order Orchestration at its finest!
Qu’s smart Kitchen Display System (KDS) enables staff to mark items as “completed,” syncing status instantly across every station. Expo and prep teams see real-time updates, eliminating the need for physical checks or shouting across the kitchen. Bottlenecks disappear, and every item is tracked from start to finish with total clarity.
The Value-Driven Advantage: Staff clarity and efficiency, higher throughput, less food waste, reduced staff stress, and guests who return for consistently fast, flawless service.
Capture Every Sale with Multi-Currency Payment Support - POS Multi-Currency
Capture every sale, even from international guests. Multi-currency POS support turns foreign visitors into loyal guests by accepting Canadian dollars and Mexican pesos, with seamless conversion and unified reporting. This means increased sales, a broader guest base, and flexible payment options that make your restaurant accessible to all.
Your POS system is configured to accept multiple currencies, with exchange rates updating automatically. Payments are processed in the guest’s chosen currency, but all reporting remains unified in USD, requiring no extra steps for your staff and ensuring seamless operations.
The Value-Driven Advantage: Modern POS architecture enables fast and easy currency switching without slowing down transactions or complicating staff training.
Drive Increased Check Sizes on Kiosk & POS - Cross-Sell Performance Reporting
Turn every order into a bigger sale. Qu’s cross-sell reporting reveals which upsell offers and menu pairings generate the most revenue—providing an understanding of your most profitable strategies so you can drive higher check averages.
Qu tracks acceptance rates for both kiosk and POS, as well as the revenue impact and net sales lift for each cross-sell campaign. You receive comprehensive, real-time metrics that show exactly which promotions are working, enabling you to refine your upsell tactics for maximum ROI.
The Value-Driven Advantage: Data-driven, unified reporting helps you optimize cross-sell strategies with confidence, instead of relying on hunches.
Get Instant Insights with Voice-Enabled Mobile Reporting - Notify’s Enhanced Chat and Voice Query
Make smarter decisions, instantly. Notify’s enhanced chat and voice query puts real-time, actionable insights in the hands of operators and now accepts feedback. No more digging through reports—just ask about sales, labor, or campaign performance and get instant answers.
Natural language querying, through voice and chat, delivers immediate performance tracking on your mobile device. Simply ask questions like “How are today’s sales vs yesterday’s?” and receive clear, instant responses so you’re always in control and informed. You can now rate the responses to improve the accuracy, quality, and relevance of the answers you receive.
The Value-Driven Advantage: Effortless voice- and chat-enabled sales and performance tracking, from the palm of your hand.
Transform Idle Kiosks into Marketing Powerhouses - Kiosk Videos & Screensavers
When kiosks aren’t taking orders, you can now engage guests with dynamic video content and promotional screensavers that showcase specials, turning every moment, even downtime, into an opportunity to drive sales and enhance the guest experience.
Kiosks are programmed to display engaging videos or branded screensavers during idle periods. These features are fully integrated, ensuring your marketing messages reach guests in a non-intrusive, visually compelling way.
The Value-Driven Advantage: Subtly surprise and delight guests while building brand affinity and increasing sales.
Give Back, Effortlessly - Kiosk Charity Donations
Strengthen your community impact and brand reputation with kiosk charity donations that prompt guests to give back, generating goodwill and providing tax benefits. This makes every transaction an opportunity to do good while boosting engagement and guest satisfaction.
At the end of a kiosk transaction, guests are prompted to add a donation to a selected charity. The process is seamless and fully integrated, making it easy for guests to contribute without disrupting the order flow.
The Value-Driven Advantage: Drive branded community charitable efforts and empower guests to participate in a low-interference manner.
Operate at Peak Efficiency - Energy & Equipment Intelligence
Slash operating costs and prevent costly breakdowns. Smart energy and equipment management predicts failures before they happen and identifies energy waste down to the appliance. This means lower energy bills, fewer surprise repairs, and peace of mind that your kitchen is always running at peak efficiency.
IoT sensors track your kitchen equipment and environmental systems, continuously monitoring energy usage, temperatures, and performance. The system delivers real-time insights and configurable alerting, allowing you to adjust settings, identify anomalies, and prevent equipment failures before they impact your business.
The Value-Driven Advantage: Respond to equipment issues proactively to reduce operational expenses and get ahead of larger equipment issues and prevent large capital expense drivers, like unexpected appliance outages.
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI)
Qu Named Only “Excellent” POS in DoorDash’s New Preferred Integrations -Third-Party Ordering
Qu was named as the only POS platform to earn the highest possible rating of “Excellent” in the new DoorDash Preferred Integrations Program. The platform delivers a 99.8% order success rate, more than 3x better than the industry average. Requiring no middleware or manual workarounds, this performance means fewer headaches and more fulfilled orders for restaurants, driving increased sales and revenue growth.
The restaurant industry is evolving faster than ever, and the gap between leaders and laggards is widening every day. Restaurants using integrated, intelligent systems are capturing more revenue, operating more efficiently, and delivering better guest experiences than those stuck with patchwork solutions.
This isn’t about keeping up—it’s about pulling ahead.
Ready to see what’s possible? Let’s talk about transforming your operation.
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Qu is the restaurant technology company evolving POS, responsibly, for a more sustainable future. With the industry’s first unified commerce platform, Qu’s fully integrated products go beyond fragmented ordering and tech experiences to create healthier connections for restaurant operating teams and their many stakeholders.
