Data & Analytics

Restaurants remotely monitor all locations and get real-time data on sales, labor, loss and more

Millennium Hotels streamlines event planning process

Restaurant operators dish on the strengths and snags of outsourced networks

2007 Hotel Visionary Award

Dunkin' Donuts announces a new customer deployment from data integration and business intelligence solutions provider Oco, Inc.

These days, more and more restaurants are taking advantage of point-of-service (POS) technology, replacing cash registers with fully integrated, PC-based systems. In many cases, the technology is staying well ahead of customer demand, as most users report they are utilizing only a percentage of the available features, but talk excitedly about moving forward in the future with the introduction of several of the additional features being offered by providers.

Pizza chains use point-of-sale systems for more than just completing orders

In restaurant settings, POS systems typically handle food orders, operate as smart cash registers, and perform other mission-critical functions such as labor management, scheduling, food ordering/inventory and even accounting.