Restaurants

Each year Hospitality Technology honors three restaurant companies for their achievement in increasing business growth and innovation at its annual Restaurant Executive Summit. The 2009 Breakthrough Awards were presented to Morton's Restaurant Group, T.G.I. Friday's and Hard Rock Cafe.

Growth Concepts, led by David Kim, CEO of Baja Fresh and La Salsa, acquires the Atlanta-based Canyons Burger Company.

Radiant's Aloha Configuration Center is an above-store point of sale solution that helps multi-unit operators manage systems from one single locale.

From indoor bars, restaurants and nightclubs to its famous poolside parties, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas can rest assured that their point of sale terminals will be able to stand up to any condition thrown at them, while delivering both wired and wireless flexibility. Hard Rock's director of information technology, Rob Kosier, dishes on the resorts 200+ Gemini POS terminals from PAR.

Diners using OpenTable for Android can check the real-time availability of multiple restaurants in the area, read restaurant reviews, invite friends to join them and then follow directions to the restaurant, all from their mobile device.

The newest release of the Dialogic Vision VX Integrated Media Platform and Dialogic Vision CX Video Gateway are intended to allow service providers to reduce the operating expenses of network equipment and more cost effectively support innovative mobile services.

Pizza Inn has selected Speedline POS as the recommended point of sale for all company-owned and franchised Pizza Inn restaurants.

The release of PAYware PC version 1.0.6 features added support for the American Express payment processing network, Chase Paymentech Tampa, the FDMS North-Nash payment processing network and more.