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Florida Diner Stays on Budget with Pinnacle’s iControl

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Sam Wong knows the restaurant business.  At age 14, he started his hospitality career in a New York City eatery.  He went on to work as a busboy, a server and a line cook, before he earned his college degree in accounting from New York University.

Last year, when it came time to open his own restaurant, the Blue Moon Diner in Cooper City, Wong chose a Pinnacle POS system to manage his operations.

“My concept, in these tough economic times, is that people are sick of fast food,” said Wong to the Miami Herald.  “People want to sit down and have a home-cooked meal at an affordable price.”

That is why he offers family-friendly favorites all day.  For breakfast, diners can choose from menu items like pancakes or one of a dozen omelets, starting at $2.99.  The Blue Moon Diner lunch list includes an array of salads, wraps and Angus beef burgers from $4.99—and dinner staples like meatloaf and New York strip steak begin at $6.99.

With a background in accounting, and years of restaurant knowledge, Wong enlisted the support of Pinnacle to protect his profits and keep his new business on track. Pinnacle’s POS systems promote loss prevention by eliminating double-entry postings and reducing accounting costs.  The iControl Enterprise works with the POSitouch restaurant POS system to create an all-in-one program to map sales, automatically post transactions and chart accounts.  These features help restaurant owners like Wong to maintain his budget and continue to offer his customers good food at a great price.

Pinnacle Hospitality Systems helps new restaurant owners throughout South Florida manage their business affairs.  Our reliable POS systems protect your profits by organizing and charting your sales with accuracy.  For more information on how POSitouch can be the accounting solution for your restaurant, contact Pinnacle at 800-771-7100 today!

First Restaurant Loss Prevention Webinar a Success

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Earlier this month, Pinnacle Hospitality Systems, provider of restaurant POS systems to Alabama and Florida, collaborated with iControl Enterprise in presenting a restaurant loss prevention Webinar.  As an enterprise solution for integrating POSitouch restaurant POS systems, iControl offers a number of restaurant loss prevention tools that alert management of events deemed important.  The loss prevention tools provided by this restaurant software includes management alerts and enterprise reporting tools that are accessible through the internet.     

This webinar was presented by senior manager of Risk Management for Caribou Coffee Company, Mike Carlson.  The focus was on Restaurant Loss Prevention Strategies, and Carlson discussed how, within a year, he brought the profits of Caribou from negative to postive profits simply by using POSitouch to help decrease employee theft.

As more webinars occur, a new area of iControlEnterprise.com will be opened, allowing restaurant management professionals to view archives of webinar footage.  As an important educational tool for hospitality management professionals, these webinars aim to improve restaurant loss prevention awareness and increase bottom line profits.

One of the simplest loss prevention tools a restaurant can implement is a restaurant POS system. There is no better way to manage and control expenses and profits, while strengthening loss prevention strategies.

With a full set of customizable reporting tools, iControl allows you to arrange and organize specific data such as geographic area and specific time increments, menu items, department, inventory, food cost, or a specific department.

With Pinnacle Hospitality Solutions POSitouch software integrated by iControl Enterprise, your restaurant can have a personally-tailored POS system acting as a communiation and loss prevention tool. Expose and eliminate opportunities for loss and theft by combining your restaurant POS system with digital surveillance.