Food-software buyer guide

Restaurant Software Data Migration Plan

Direct answer

A restaurant data migration needs a source inventory, target model, mapping rules, cleansing decisions, test imports, reconciliation totals, cutover ownership, rollback, and retention plan. Copying rows without operational validation is not a migration.

Decision method

Four steps

Inventory menu, customer, order, location, staff, supplier, and financial data

Record the owner, evidence, unresolved assumption, and decision before moving to the next stage.

Classify what to migrate, archive, transform, or discard

Record the owner, evidence, unresolved assumption, and decision before moving to the next stage.

Run representative test imports and reconcile counts and totals

Record the owner, evidence, unresolved assumption, and decision before moving to the next stage.

Rehearse cutover, freeze, rollback, and post-launch verification

Record the owner, evidence, unresolved assumption, and decision before moving to the next stage.

Review checklist

Every field has a mapping or explicit exclusion
Historical and active records are distinguishable
Consent and retention obligations are preserved
Business owners sign off on reconciled samples

Evidence boundary

This guide is an operating framework, not a fixed quote, legal opinion, security certification, or guarantee of launch outcome. Product scope, provider access, local obligations, migration condition, and organizational capacity require project-specific verification.

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