Restaurant POS Systems?

Posted by Cliff on Friday November 15, 2002 @03:08AM from the good-enough-for-the-food-business dept.

glamslam asks: "As the newly appointed technology director at a large restaurant chain, I've been given the task of evaluating and implementing a Point of Sale (POS) system. The main goal is to save costs on deployment across hundreds of restaurants. Another goal is to find a solution that is flexible enough to adapt to our unique operational model. Most of the vendors' products I have seen are based on Windows. I prefer the openness, flexibility, and cost-savings of Linux, yet I do not want to build the system from the ground up. Has anyone been involved in POS projects and managed to put Linux into the mix?" Are there any features that restaurants need that your traditional POS system may not include?

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Don't make Wagamama's mistake. by chrestomanci · 2002-11-15 04:23 · Score: 3, Interesting

Wagamama is a chain of Japanese restaurants in London and other places.

The waitresses use iPaqs fitted with wireless cards to take your order. (Very efficiently I might add).

The was a rumour circulating a few months ago, that a group of costumers saw this, and hacked their network using a laptop they had, the proceeded to order and eat a three course meal for each of them, while only paying for a soda each.

I don't know if it is true, but considering the usual record for corporate deployment of wireless technology, it sounds plausible.