South Rock Lounge Depends on POSitouch Restaurant POS

South Rock Lounge Bar and Grill in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida is a place for eating, drinking, dancing and “fiesta forever”. The restaurant and lounge brings authentic flavors of the Caribbean and live entertainment to South Florida. Relax to the music of the Caribbean, enjoy specialty drinks and savor delicious dishes prepared fresh from the chefs. Popular Caribbean dishes offered are jerk chicken, curry goat, sautéed jerk shrimp, rice and peas and pumpkin chicken soup.

South Rock features an event every night of the week for guests 21 and older. Monday night is laid back casual night, Tuesday is Girls Night Out and Wednesday features a special on Hennessy for only $2.50. Visitors can enjoy karaoke Thursday nights, Dancehall Night Fridays and local Caribbean entertainment on Saturdays. Sunday is Old School Jam while the restaurant serves jerk chicken and pork on the house.

To help with its business operations, South Rock uses Pinnacle Hospitality Systems’ POSitouch restaurant point-of-sale systems. POSitouch is easy to use and helps hospitality businesses protect their profits and provide better customer service. Servers use the restaurant POS software to send food orders to the kitchen for fast preparation. They can process credit cards quickly and easily, and split multiple checks at once. Bartenders use POSitouch restaurant POS to start and close out tabs and to ring up drink specials.

Restaurant owners like the POS software system because they can track inventory and create work schedules. The food cost analysis feature helps restaurateurs determine what menu items contribute most to the profit margin, helping businesses to maximize profit. The sales report function gives detailed information on sales figures for the restaurant. Pinnacle helps to automate the hospitality industry so restaurants receive a return on their investment.

Mugs in Fort Lauderdale Uses Pinnacle Hospitality Systems

Mugs is a sports bar in Fort Lauderdale offering 12 beers on tap, a full food menu, a great wine list and more geared to entertain the 21 and over crowd. Their happy hour features the best deal in town with two-for-one drinks from 4 to 8pm during the week. Mugs offers beer specials by the bucket or the pitcher and always offers the “Mugs Bucket” of domestic beers and 8 wings for only $15.95. Feel free to play darts, Nintendo Wii, pool or foosball with your friends at Mugs. Their motto is “live well, eat well and drink better”.

Mugs offers one-of-a-kind specials and events like wings for 40 cents on Mondays, poker night and flip for shots Tuesdays, beer pong tournament Wednesdays, karaoke Thursdays and Ladies Night Saturdays where ladies drink free until 10pm. Along with lunch specials, all-you-can-eat baby back ribs and Alaskan snow crab legs, there is something for everyone every day of the week.

To conduct its business transactions, Mugs uses POSitouch restaurant POS provided by Pinnacle Hospitality Systems. The restaurant POS software is good for sending food orders to the kitchen, processing credit card transactions and adjusting for discounts, which is perfect for the happy hour at Mugs. Managers like the computer POS system because for loss prevention. The POS software system can be set to alert managers of “no sales” or other red flag events to control profit loss. A good restaurant POS system helps to kill any potential “profit killers” in the hospitality industry.

Ft. Lauderdale’s Newest, Tokyo Blue, Becomes Pinnacle Client

The newest oceanfront restaurant to come to Fort Lauderdale, Florida on July 17, 2010 is Tokyo Blue, serving quality Japanese, Thai and Peruvian offerings with style. The highly anticipated restaurant and ultralounge is set inside the Ocean Manor Resort on Galt Ocean Mile, with 200 feet of private beach.

The 15-seat sushi bar serves the freshest sushi made with the highest quality ingredients, like real wasabi, ground to order and 25-year old aged balsamic vinegar. Specialties like Miso Glazed Black Cod, Balsamic Teriyaki Seabass, Beef Toban and Japanese Wagyu Kobe Beef are simply delicious. Thai offerings include favorites like Pad Thai, Chilled Papaya Salad, Tom Yum and Tom Ka Gai soups.

The drink menu consists of delightful cocktails like the signature Tokyo Blue Martini, poured over dry ice and served with cotton candy to give a feeling like you’re soaring above the clouds.

The unique restaurant concept of Tokyo Blue combines fine dining with a glamorous ultralounge that offers exciting nightlife. The 35-seat glass bar area features DJs playing live music 5 nights a week and a VIP area.

Tokyo Blue has signed up to use Pinnacle Hospitality Systems’ POSitouch restaurant POS to manage the business functions of their restaurant. The POS software system is used to send orders to the kitchen, process credit card transactions and split multiple checks quickly and easily. Gift cards and a customer loyalty program can be entered into the database, as well as food and drink pairings. The restaurant management POS is useful for tracking inventory, creating employee work schedules, and pulling sales reports so restaurants can maximize profit.

Maguires Hill 16 in Fort Lauderdale Uses Pinnacle

Located in Fort Lauderdale, Maguires Hill 16 is the oldest award-winning traditional Irish Pub and Restaurant in South Florida. The family-owned establishment is run by Jim and Martina Gregory, who have been in the business for over forty years spanning from Ireland and New York to Florida. Their son James currently manages Maguires Hill 16 assisted by his parents while their daughter Eugina oversees pubs in Ireland.

Maguires Hill 16 strives to bring a bit of Irish culture to customers who walk in the door. The food is fresh and home-cooked, the friendly staff offers excellent customer service, and the pub features live music every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday night. Maguires Hill 16 offers a venue to hold parties for up to one hundred people in the new party room. The large room is perfect to celebrate graduation, retirement, birthdays or anniversaries. The full bar area is a great place to sit back, relax and enjoy a pint with friends.

The Irish pub and restaurant offers some traditional dishes “from back home” such as corned beef and cabbage. Try the Gaelic steak, a New York strip steak served with an Irish whiskey. The Shepherds pie, Irish lamb stew and bangers and mash are certainly hometown favorites.

Maguires Hill 16 is proud to offer excellent food and customer service to the Fort Lauderdale community. The owners of the Irish pub rely on Pinnacle Hospitality Systems’ restaurant POS to help their business run smoothly. The restaurant POS system processes credit card payments and sends orders to the kitchen quickly with ease. The owners can pull sales reports and track overhead costs such as payroll and inventory at the touch of a screen. This allows the owners to hone in on loss prevention to maximize their restaurant’s profit. The computer POS system is a wonderful tool that provides a return on investment, since the POS system pays for itself from the money saved. Pinnacle Hospitality Systems helps establishments like Maguires Hill 16 by automating their business functions.

Quick Service Restaurant POS Solutions

POSitouch is a leader in the quick service industry, featuring cutting-edge technology and advancements. This scalable solution is a reliable solution for all sized quick service establishments. POSitouch Quick Service software was designed by industry insiders; the POSitouch application is a proven tool to increase your overall return on investment.

Key Components to Quick Service restaurant POS are:

• Intuitive Color touch screen to guide users through the menu fast
• Optional split screen  expedites the packing process 
• Fully-integrated color kitchen video displays
• Options for sending to displays include, real time “on the fly”, one touch delay, one item delay and upon order confirmation.
• Route orders and compile like orders for product preparation
• Optional item consolidation
• Display prioritizes main items and modifiers 
• Available summary mode
• Ability to bump orders when complete by either using the bump bar or the touch screen 
• Drive thru can be operated with single or dual windows
• Ability to recall and park orders that are not completed 
• Project what products will be ordered based on past experience 
• Credit Card Authorization provides an all in one solution for the POS data and credit authorization.
• Labor Management  – This module allows you to track time and attendance for payroll and scheduling. Integration of labor information with sales data allows for customer profiling and creation of frequent dining programs.
• Customer Data Base can be utilized for house charges, customer profiling and frequent dining programs.

What you need to know about PCI compliance

60% of consumers will not revisit the business where digital theft originated.  The cost of protecting this data is the cost of doing business.

Sixty percent is a disturbing figure, especially when compared to the frequency of this type of preventable and costly theft.  So you should ask yourself, is my POS system PCI Compliant?  Remember that a point of sale system is only as functional as the software you purchase, comparable to differing classes of vehicles.  While you are saving up for the right restaurant POS system for your business, check to be sure the following action items are addressed in the meantime:

-If your system is on the internet, make certain it is protected by a firewall
-Keep patches up to date
-Antivirus software is a must
-Change your passwords often
-Turn off remote access when not needed
-Stay educated on current online safety measures
-Contact pos provider to find out what you are storing

Contact Pinnacle Hospitality Systems today for a free in-depth analysis of your hospitality business needs, and let us show you where you are losing profits, and how we can help you to prevent profit losses and potential vulnerabilities to the costly trend of digital hacking.

Fast Casual Dining Solutions

Pinnacle Hospitality Systems provides the industry standard in restaurant POS technology.  Through a scalable restaurant POS solution, Pinnacle brings reliability to the table for clients of any size.  Industry insiders designed the POSitouch Quick Service software, to effectively streamline the chaotic hospitality industry while simultaneously increasing bottom line profits.

Core components of the solution include:

• Intuitive Color touch screen guides users through the menu quickly
• Optional split screen allows you to expedite the packing process
• Color kitchen video displays are fully integrated
• Options for sending to displays include, real time “on the fly”, one touch delay, one item delay and upon order confirmation
• Route orders and compile like orders for product preparation
• Optional item consolidation
• Display prioritizes main items and modifiers
• Summary mode is available
• Orders can be bumped when complete by either using the bump bar or the touch screen
• Drive thru can be operated with single or dual windows
• Ability to recall and park orders that are not completed
• Project what products to order based on past-experience for preparation
Add-on peripherals include:
• Receipt printers
• Coin change dispensers
• Scales
• Drive-thru order confirmation screens
• Security camera systems

When you are ready to learn more about a high functionality solution to your Quick Service restaurant POS needs, contact Pinnacle Hospitality Systems and let us show you where you can redirect money toward your bottom line profits.