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POSitouch Helps Restaurants Maximize Profit

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Eastside Bistro is a casual gourmet bistro in East Orlando, Florida, serving wine, beer and fabulous food in Avalon Park. The fresh food, unique wines and friendly atmosphere is enough to lure anyone in.

Eastside Bistro offers gourmet salads, wraps, flatbreads, pastas and more. In addition, Eastside features specials like a Sunday Brunch with Mimosas and Bloody Mary’s on special all day, Monday is kids eat free day, and “Unwind Wednesday” for a food and wine sampling from 5 to 7pm for only $15 per person. Happy hour runs every day from 4 to 7pm, trivia night on Thursdays and live music on Saturdays. As if that weren’t enough, Eastside Bistro offers a dinner special on certain Friday nights, featuring lobster tail or ribeye steak. There is something on the calendar for every day of the month!

Guests can enjoy great wine and delicious food with friends in a wonderful ambiance at Eastside Bistro. In order to provide excellent customer service, Eastside Bistro uses POSitouch restaurant POS provided by Pinnacle Hospitality Systems. The restaurant management POS is used for sending orders to the kitchen for speedy preparation. The computer POS system processes credit card transactions and can split multiple checks quickly and easily. The many specials that the bistro offers can be processed on POSitouch’s flexible menu and price functionality. The POS system can be used for gift cards or a customer loyalty program.

Restaurant managers and owners like hospitality systems because they can track inventory, create employee work schedules and calculate payroll on the POS cash register. Restaurateurs can pull sales reports at any time to check the profits of their hospitality business. Pinnacle Hospitality Systems works to automate the business functions of the hospitality industry to help you maximize profit.

POSitouch Aides The Ivy in Coconut Grove, Florida

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English restaurant The Ivy at the Grove opened in late November 2009, offering a refined supper club experience to Coconut Grove, Florida. Housed in the former location of Christabelle’s Quarter, the restaurant has three floors, each of which can be rented for private events. Owners Tim Powers, who also owns the Ivy in London, and financier William Gerhauser updated the look of the restaurant and opened up the eatery to outdoor dining. The menu is a mix of affordable yet refined American cuisine and classic English comfort foods like bangers and mash and Sticky Toffee Pudding.

The main floor of The Ivy at the Grove boasts an expansive bar and atrium space, decorated with wrought iron lanterns and crystal chandeliers, that seat 200 people and can host as many as 400 for private receptions. Just up the grand staircase, the second floor has seating for 150 and French doors leading to a small outdoor terrace.

The top floor of the restaurant is the Raffles Private Membership club, an affiliate of London’s Raffles Chelsea Club, known for its high-profile members including Prince William and Prince Harry! The space has its own bar, a partially covered terrace, and can be booked for private receptions for as many as 500.

For such a large hospitality establishment, the restaurant owners rely on POSitouch restaurant POS provided by Pinnacle Hospitality Systems. Pinnacle delivers POS systems for restaurants that streamline businesses and provide enterprise solutions to the hospitality industry. The restaurant management POS, with its sales reports, inventory and payroll tracking features, ensures that hospitality businesses maximize their profit and hone in on loss prevention.

The Reggae Shack Café in Gainesville, Florida Trusts in Pinnacle

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The Reggae Shack Café is a mid-scale, reggae-themed Jamaican restaurant, serving authentic Jamaican dishes and Jamaican-inspired vegetarian cuisine. It’s been called the best Jamaican and vegetarian food in Gainesville, Florida! Located at 619 West University Avenue in Gainesville, the Reggae Shack Café was ranked one of the best places to eat by the Gainesville Sun in 2005.

The Reggae Shack Café logo is a shack underneath a coconut tree dancing to reggae music, and the slogan is “Culture so rich you can taste it.” Reggae Shack Café’s goal is to serve delicious dishes firmly based in Jamaican cooking techniques, spices and heritage with clear consciousness of the evolution of Jamaican cooking worldwide. The Reggae Shack Café features signature dishes include oxtail, curry palm hearts, Jerk Chicken, vegan steak and Caribbean hot wings.

The restaurant also aims to promote the positive aspects of Jamaican culture through music, ambiance, community support and cultural education. They invite you to come experience, taste, feel and enjoy their passion for the Jamaican people, food and culture!

The Reggae Shack Café officially re-opened its doors last year after completing a renovation and expansion. After the renovation, Reggae Shack Café began using Pinnacle Hospitality Systems’ POS systems for restaurants. The POS software system helps the Reggae Shack with processing credit cards and sending orders to the kitchen as wells as tracking inventory and payroll. It is crucial in the thriving, busy restaurant to keep track of sales figures and the restaurant POS makes it possible to pull reports on the spot. Pinnacle Hospitality Systems is the exclusive provider of POSitouch and Dinerware hospitality systems in Florida and Alabama.

Riverside Bar and Grille Uses POSitouch

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Located on a golf course, Riverside Bar and Grille has been called one of the best sports bars in Ruskin, Florida. The casual waterfront eatery is a fun place for locals to hang out and enjoy great food. To make matters even sweeter, owners Ted and Courtney, who serve as Chef and General Manager of Riverside Bar and Grille, celebrated their wedding on Tuesday, June 1, 2010!

Chef Ted has over 25 years of experience cooking in top restaurants in San Diego and Hawaii as well as in his own establishments. At Riverside he uses this experience to produce fresh, quality food and a unique dining experience for every patron.

Courtney is Riverside Bar and Grille’s General Manager taking care of the overall business operations and events. She looks forward to making each and every visit to the restaurant a memorable event.

During the week leading up to the wedding, Ted and Courtney offered daily specials at their restaurant. Riverside was closed Sunday, May 30th to Tuesday, June 1st for their wedding.

Riverside Bar and Grill is dedicated to serving great food and drinks. The restaurant hosts live entertainment every Saturday night and special musical appearances throughout the week.

Ted and Courtney have recently signed up to use POSitouch restaurant POS provided by Pinnacle Hospitality Systems. The computer POS system helps to automate the functions of their restaurant, making it easier to manage regular operations such as tracking inventory, creating work schedules and calculating sales reports. With its loss prevention capabilities, POSitouch restaurant management POS is vital to the success of any hospitality business.

Bimini Twist of West Palm Beach Uses POSitouch

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Located on Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach, Bimini Twist is a gorgeous cabana-like restaurant decorated with bamboo walls and tropical foliage. The seafood, steak and chop house was awarded “Best of the West” in 2007, earns high reviews on Zagat and continues to entertain locals and visitors alike. The full bar area is perfect for happy hour, and the unique dining experience is great for birthdays, anniversaries or any occasion.

The dinner menu features a wide seafood selection such as the Bimini crab cakes, lobster bisque, fresh local yellow snapper, Chilean sea bass and grilled mahi mahi. The chef produces special surf and turf combos of filet mignon with lobster tail, shrimp or king crab legs. Bimini Twist offers a full drink list of wines from California, Italy, and Australia as well as a selection of martinis, beers and specialty house cocktails. Enjoy fine dining under a display of tropical fish in a truly exotic setting.

Bimini Twist relies on Pinnacle Hospitality System’s POSitouch software to operate all its business functions. POSitouch restaurant management POS works wonderfully in fine dining settings, allowing the staff to process credit cards and split multiple checks quickly and efficiently. Managers of Bimini Twist use the POS system for its customer loyalty program and gift card program, as well as for behind-the-scenes functions such as labor management, payroll reporting, and pulling sales reports. Pinnacle Hospitality Systems helps to automate the hospitality industry to make it easier for restaurant owners and managers to run a fine dining establishment.

The Villa on Miami Beach is Pinnacle’s New Client

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The late fashion designer Gianni Versace resided in this mansion on Miami Beach, now transformed into The Villa By Barton G. iconic as of March 2010. The luxurious boutique hotel in the heart of South Beach features 10 exquisitely decorated suites, with rates starting at $2,100 per night. The hotel restaurant is simply named The Dining Room, bringing old-world fine dining to Ocean Drive.

The man behind the transformation is Barton G. Weiss, renowned in the restaurant and events production world. While planning the renovation, he stayed true to Gianni Versace’s vision by hiring British trained butlers and using the highest quality fabrics for hotel guests. Barton G. breathed new life into the historic address, offering accommodations like the Venus Suite with private balconies overlooking the mansion’s Thousand Mosaic Pool. The Villa Suite was once Versace’s own bedroom, and now welcomes hotel guests with its double king-size bed, seven closets and custom oversized shower. Hotel guests have private use of the Mosaic Gardens and the Thousand Mosaic swimming pool.

The enticing Dining Room is open late seven days a week, serving refined European cuisine on Versace china. Dishes like truffle bread, The Villa Salad and rack of lamb with jelly cubes tantalize even the most discerning critics. The Villa by Barton G. also hosts Miami Beach’s only afternoon tea, served on Saturdays and Sundays by British certified butlers.

The exclusive Villa By Barton G. trusts in the most reliable restaurant point-of-sale system to manage its business – by Pinnacle Hospitality Systems. Pinnacle delivers POS systems for restaurants that streamline businesses and provide enterprise solutions to the hospitality industry.

Florida Restaurants Optimistic About Business in 2010

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Restaurants in Florida are gradually climbing back from the recession and the restaurant industry is optimistic about recovery this year. South Florida restaurants, like Boca Raton-based Table 42 Italian Kitchen and Wine Bar, have seen an increase in sales in the first three months of 2010 compared to January, February and March of last year. Owner Gary Rack says he has also seen more tourists in the first quarter and that even locals are dining out more. A noticeable change is the increased quality and portion size, while prices have remained the same as a dining incentive.  

The National Restaurant Association conducted a survey in February that showed restaurateurs are “increasingly optimistic about the economy and sales growth over the next six months,” (Sun Sentinel). Nationwide, restaurant industry sales are expected to increase 2.5% this year, which is an improvement compared to a decline for the past two years.

The positive outlook has resulted in new operators interested in opening restaurants in Florida this year – which is greatly helping out the hospitality industry. These new establishments range from sports bars to upscale restaurants to casual pizza places.

The trend of higher quality food for the same price also means setting a higher standard for service. Pinnacle Hospitality Systems has provided software solutions to improve services in fine dining, sports bars, nightclubs and casual dining restaurants for over twenty years. Pinnacle supplies restaurant POS systems in Florida like POSitouch and Dinerware to help hospitality businesses maximize profit, increase productivity and control expenses.