Restaurants

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

Restaurant operators discuss making loyalty programs work

Whataburger, a restaurant chain in the Southern U.S., has chosen Advanced Systems Concepts, ActiveBatch job scheduling system (advsyscon.com) to manage batch data processing chores at its central data center.

According to the forthcoming Restaurant Industry Technology Study, "Delivering Restaurant Efficiency," the restaurant and foodservice industry will continue to see healthy growth in spending on information technology in 2006.

Check please? Would you like to upsize your meal? Did the last void rung up seem suspicious? Such questions have become commonplace at many restaurants--from quick-service, fast- and traditional casual, to white tablecloth establishments. The explosive growth and adoption of wireless technologies are allowing the three key stakeholders--customers, employees, and managers--to obtain more accurate answers than with hard-wired and analog solutions.

McDonald's will now be using Microsoft Windows XP Embedded as the foundation for its new point-of-sale (POS) platform.

Independent hoteliers band together for mutual benefit

As dependence on the POS grows, expectations rise