CSA has flagged two critical PHP vulnerabilities. Here is how Aptsys is protecting Singapore F&B merchants, what you may notice, and what to do at your outlet.
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Every Singapore F&B owner has heard some version of the claim: AI is coming for restaurant jobs. Robots will cook, kiosks will take every order, and the floor team will shrink to nothing. The reality is less dramatic and more useful. AI is not replacing restaurant staff in Singapore. It […]
November to December is the busiest stretch of the year for most Singapore F&B operators. Company dinners, Christmas gatherings and New Year’s Eve fill the calendar, and diners are more willing to spend and to try somewhere new. That makes restaurant year-end promotions in Singapore one of the most important […]
If your restaurant files GST quarterly, your GST F5 return for July to September is due on 31 October. For many Singapore F&B operators, GST F5 filing means a week of exporting sales reports, fixing spreadsheets and chasing outlet managers for missing numbers. It should not take that long. A […]
From October to New Year’s Eve, every Singapore restaurant gets the same problem in a different form. Company dinners, year-end parties, Deepavali and Christmas gatherings all land on the same Friday and Saturday nights. Restaurant overbooking in Singapore peaks in exactly these weeks — not because operators are careless, but […]
“Can we do away with the cashier?” Every Singapore F&B owner facing rising wages and hard-to-fill shifts has asked it. Self-service kiosks and QR ordering already take the order. The one thing still keeping a person behind the counter is cash. Running a cashless restaurant in Singapore is how you […]
For years, PSG was the default way Singapore restaurants funded new technology. Since 30 September 2026, that’s changed: PSG, EDG and MRA have been folded into a single scheme, the EDGE Grant. If you’re comparing PSG vs EDGE grant support for a POS, kiosk or QR ordering system, here’s what […]
PSG stopped taking new applications on 29 September 2026. If you run a restaurant, café or F&B chain in Singapore and you were planning to fund a POS upgrade, self-service kiosk or QR ordering system, the EDGE Grant for restaurants is now the route. It launched on 30 September and […]
With more than 9,000 food and beverage establishments competing for the same diners, a Singapore F&B loyalty programme is no longer a nice-to-have — it’s one of the few levers an operator controls directly. Everything else (rent, food cost, foot traffic) is largely out of your hands. Whether a customer […]
Every Singapore F&B operator has asked some version of this question in 2026: with less manpower, can we run staff-less ordering and payment — and still deliver the service customers expect? The honest answer is yes, for most of the transaction. Ordering and payment are the two steps in the […]
If you have been thinking about using the PSG grant to fund a POS upgrade, self-service kiosk, or QR ordering system for your Singapore restaurant or retail outlet, you need to read this now. PSG closes on 29 September 2026 — that is six days away. From 30 September onwards, […]
Most Singapore restaurant owners know they should be running birthday promotions. It’s been on the to-do list for months — maybe longer. The problem is never the idea. It’s the setup. Capturing dates, triggering messages at the right time, making sure the offer applies correctly at the POS without manual […]
If you run a restaurant or retail outlet in Singapore and you’ve been watching your manpower costs climb, a self-service kiosk is probably already on your radar. The reason most operators haven’t moved is the upfront cost. A self-service kiosk PSG grant changes that calculation significantly — the government will […]
Most Singapore merchants who don’t have a loyalty programme say the same thing when asked why: they’re not ready to change their POS. They’re on a system that works, their staff know it, and the idea of disrupting operations to get a membership programme running isn’t worth it. The Aptsys […]
Running a restaurant in Singapore has always been labour-intensive. But the pressure to reduce manpower costs has never been higher. Wages are up. The foreign worker quota is tighter. And good F&B staff — the kind who show up reliably, learn fast, and stay past six months — are harder […]
If your restaurant runs QR ordering, your entire service depends on one thing most operators never think about until it breaks: your internet connection. A SIM card failover router gives your Singapore restaurant backup internet for QR ordering the moment your main connection drops — automatically, in seconds, with no […]
Most Singapore restaurants that take reservations are sitting on a missed opportunity. Every booking is a name, a phone number, and a real signal of interest — someone who chose your restaurant specifically, planned ahead, and showed up. But when the meal ends and the guest walks out, that data […]
If you run a restaurant in Singapore and you use QR ordering, you already know the biggest benefit: fewer orders go wrong, and your staff spend less time running between tables. But there is a second advantage most operators do not fully use — pay upfront with QR ordering so […]
Singapore’s Beverage Container Return Scheme (BCRS) has been running since 1 April 2026, but many restaurant operators still haven’t registered for the Return Right F&B Scheme — and with it, a $500 one-time incentive from NEA that expires on 30 September 2026. That’s one month away. What is the Return […]
If you run a restaurant in Singapore and you still take reservations through a website form, you’ve probably noticed the same thing: a lot of people message you on WhatsApp anyway. They skip the form entirely. They find your number somewhere — Google, Instagram, a friend’s recommendation — and they […]