Implementing Cloud Computing Technology on Restaurant’s Expenses Monitoring System

Abstract

Cloud computing offers the advantage to increase business productivity because it combines computer technology and internet-based development that is currently needed in various fields, including the restaurant industry. The application of cloud computing in the restaurant industry that has been carried out includes building payment transaction systems, restaurant reservation systems, and customer satisfaction systems. Although there have been many studies on cloud computing applications in the restaurant industry, there is still minimal research that discusses the consolidation of many restaurant branches’ expenses. Business activities in the restaurant industry require payments that need to be monitored appropriately to avoid waste, providing information on the cost-efficiency of costs quickly and accurately, allowing easy observation of expenditure data movement. The method used is by collecting expenditure data from all restaurant branches then processing it by comparing the income data obtained to produce output in the form of the level of efficiency achieved by each store. For three months, the sample data were obtained from the Cekeran Midun restaurant, which has seven branches in Bandung and Cimahi, Indonesia. The user acceptance test results show that all functions work well and have an overall acceptance rate of 83.33%, with most comments on the improvement being on the convenience of use and the system’s layout. Further research combines the calculation of costs in a restaurant. It allows the development of a platform that provides cloud computing-based online services that can be used collectively by various restaurants (software as a service).