Restaurant POS Canada

A word from Vivonet's CEO Ryan Volberg: How consumer self-ordering can help restaurants address the labour shortage

In June 2014, the Canadian Federal Government modified the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, which made the challenge of finding quality staff even more difficult for restaurants. Since the program change, many restaurants in Canada have been forced to search for scarce local candidates. To manage this challenge, restaurateurs are now looking for new ways to adapt to the sparse labour market while continuing to meet guest expectations.

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On April 1, 2016, B.C. will replace the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) with the combination of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Provincial Sales Tax (PST). There are 3 things restaurants can do to prepare for the switch.

Tags: POS, Canada, HST, PST, GST, Tax, Sales Tax

As of February 4th, 2016, the Government is eliminating the penny from Canada’s coinage system and pennies will no longer be distributed to businesses or banks. Canadians can continue to use pennies to pay for things and the one-cent piece will retain its value indefinitely.