Aspect is what is commonly referred to as 'back-office' software for restaurants. It has several purposes:
Aspect acts as an enhancement to your POS system giving you greater flexibility in managing your sales and labor information. You can modify any report in Aspect to produce just the information you need. If you already have reports that you are accustomed to, perhaps in a spreadsheet, chances are that you can create those reports in Aspect.
Aspect helps you manage your labor cost by calculating the cost of schedules you enter and by comparing actual labor against scheduled labor each day. You can export schedules from Aspect to some POS systems to ensure that employees clock in/out within specified grace periods.
Aspect helps you manage your inventory cost by calculating your actual inventory usage/cost and comparing it to the calculated legitimate usage/cost. It tells you when your cost is above the ideal and which items are causing the problem.
Aspect eliminates redundant data entry by exporting to many popular accounting packages and payroll services. For example, you can open a payroll timesheet at the end of a pay period and export the information to a payroll service. In a similar fashion, you can export invoices and sales information to an accounting package and import invoices from your purveyors.
Aspect helps you manage information from multiple stores by automatically transferring data from each store to a central office at the end of each day. Using a copy of Aspect at your central office, you can review sales, labor and inventory information for any store.