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Longboat Key Seafood Restaurant Uses POSitouch

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Longboat Key is a relaxing South Florida escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Visitors come from all over for the gorgeous beaches, warm weather and inviting atmosphere. Vacationers can also take advantage of the unique local restaurants, like Moore’s Stone Crab. Moore’s serves a wide variety of fresh seafood dishes daily.

Moore’s Stone Crab is the oldest seafood restaurant under the same ownership in Manatee County. Moore and Hicks opened the restaurant in 1967, and have used hand-built traps since they started operations. “Our boats work the traps each day from October 15 to May 15 to bring in fresh crabs for the restaurant. The claws are carefully removed and the live crabs returned to the waters to regenerate new ones,” says the Moore’s Stone Crab website. Choose from any of Moore’s cooked-to-perfection dishes, including fresh grouper, oysters on the half shell, a variety of fried seafood platters or Moore’s signature stone crab. One TripAdvisor reviewer says, “Be sure you have a cup of lobster bisque. My husband and I both agreed it was the best we’d ever tasted!” Enjoy your meal on Moore’s dock with a gorgeous view.

In addition to dining in, you can order Moore’s stone crabs online, and have them packed and shipped out via Fed Ex Next Day Air. Manatee County’s oldest seafood restaurant chose Pinnacle Hospitality Systems for their point of sale solution. Using POSitouch for restaurants allows servers to spend more time with guests, fostering a feeling of familiarity that keeps diners coming back for more – “Barb the bartender saw us walking into the room and surprisingly greeted up by our names. Wow!! It had been 5 days since our last visit. She also remembered what we drank. After serving our drinks and inquiring about our visit to Longboat, she again introduced us to everyone at the bar,” reviewed Douglas B. on TripAdvisor. For more information, visit Moore’s Stone Crab Facebook page. If you are interested in a POS system in Longboat Key, contact Pinnacle today.

BurgerMonger Relies on Pinnacle Hospitality Systems for Quality POS System

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Mongers are well known for their ability to pick only the highest quality goods to sell or trade—and BurgerMonger in Tampa, Florida lives up to their namesake. They provide their customers superiorly crafted burgers made with only the finest ingredients. Hand crafted burgers, fresh cut fries and home baked buns are just a few of the reasons the popular restaurant attracts loyal crowds of hungry guests.

BurgerMonger’s menu is a step above the rest because of their use of top-notch ingredients, like Akaushi Kobe beef, a lower fat and lower cholesterol meat. Their menu is filled with delicious toppings like cherry wood smoked bacon, aged smoked Amish buttermilk blue cheese and Chai Chipolte Chup. But their menu isn’t only about burgers. They also offer hot dogs, milk shakes and a chicken breast sandwich on multi-grain bread brushed with garlic olive oil.

When Jake Hickton, owner of BurgerMonger, opened his restaurant based on the tenet of using only the finest ingredients, he knew he also needed to choose only the best point-of-sale to manage his daily operations. That is why he selected Pinnacle Hospitality Systems’ POSitouch for its quality, experience and price.

“Using Pinnacle Hospitality Systems software has helped us improve profitability,” said Hickton, a 35-year restaurant veteran. Pinnacle has helped BurgerMonger increase restaurant revenue through inventory control, loss prevention, labor management and food cost analysis.

From day one, Pinnacle exceeded expectations with its excellent 24-hour customer service. Hickton stressed his appreciation of Pinnacle’s outstanding customer service team, citing instances when he needed assistance and a representative was always there to respond immediately.

“We’ve experienced capable, confident people willing to do what was needed in order for us to be successful,” said Hickton. “We’re in it for the long haul and I expect to have a great, long term relationship.”

To see the full client testimonial video interview with Jake Hickton of BurgerMonger.

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Pinnacle Hospitality Systems Says: Server Recommendations Pay Off in the End

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We’ve all done it. We’re sitting at a new restaurant, reading over their exhaustive menu, and starting to feel slightly overwhelmed. Vacillating between the steak and the shrimp, we defer to the server with the familiar question: “So, what’s good here?”

The most common reply? “Why, everything!”

But with this response, servers pass up a golden moment. Instead of taking the opportunity to start a valuable conversation, this vague answer is so unhelpful it may actually leave the customer more confused than they were before.

A specific response, exhibiting knowledge and mastery of the menu offerings, may help sway the buying decisions of restaurant guests. A server who is able to describe drinks to desserts in delicious detail will whet the appetites of their guests and increase their restaurant profits.

One way of keeping your restaurant’s servers in the culinary know is to make it easier for them to eat the food they serve. Restaurants that offer their employees a discounted meal policy will benefit in the long run. Their firsthand testimony to the tastiness of the menu will entice guests to try more—and buy more.

“Suggestive selling is one of the most valuable tools to building your sales,” says Seth Pollino, of Pinnacle Hospitality Systems Sales. He would know—Seth has been involved in the restaurant business his entire life.

“It is more difficult and expensive to drive new customers into the building,” he says. “It is much easier to get the ones that are already in the seats to spend more money.”

Giving the staff access to the restaurant’s meals will help them feel more invested in the business and serve as a great form of advertisement. Servers appear more legitimate while making recommendations. A specific reply of, “Oh, the fish was just caught today” or “The lamb is my personal favorite” or “The key lime pie is even better than my grandma used to make”, is more likely to influence customers’ menu decisions.

At Pinnacle Hospitality Systems, we protect your profits. Pinnacle will help improve your restaurant’s bottom line not only with proven computer hardware and software designed for the hospitality industry, but with unmatched business consulting and accounting resources. Pinnacle can integrate your point-of-sale, accounting, and inventory in a single easy to use interface. For more details on how we can help increase the profitability of your restaurant, call us today—1.800.771.7100!

Pinnacle Helps Tampa Hotel

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Hotel Indigo is an ideal choice for Tampa-bound travelers.  For their corporate guests, Hotel Indigo is minutes away from major companies like Progress Energy, Bank of America and Wachovia.  For those looking for leisure, the hotel is walking distance from numerous chic shops, boutiques and restaurants.  Whether you are visiting for business or pleasure, Hotel Indigo offers guests beautiful accommodations and delicious dining options at their Phi Café and Bar.

For families drawn to Tampa Bay for popular attractions like The Pier, Tropicana Field or Busch Gardens Amusement Park, Phi Café provides an energizing breakfast assortment to start the day out right.  The contemporary décor, with colorful splashes of hot pink and lime green, complements the gourmet menu.  Phi Café provides all the fuel of a well-rounded breakfast before you head out to discover all the sights Tampa has to offer, including Beach Drive in downtown St. Petersburg, less than three blocks away from the hotel.

For the businessperson, a customary Starbucks coffee is available in the morning to help sustain you through a day of long meetings.  Once the work is done, Phi Café and Bar is waiting with a cold drink and a satisfying entrée.  The Phi Café and Bar at the Hotel Indigo is ready to cater to the varying needs of their guests—that is why they chose Pinnacle Hospitality Systems for their point-of-sale software.

Restaurant Data Concepts, the original developer of the POSitouch point-of-sale software, named Pinnacle the 2009-2010 “POSitouch Dealer of the Year”.  The POSitouch is now used in hospitality businesses in over 20,000 locations throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Asia.  Pinnacle will help your POS system improve your bottom line, not only with proven computer hardware and software, designed specifically for the hospitality industry, but with unparalleled consulting and accounting resources.  Pinnacle can integrate your point-of-sale, accounting and inventory in an easy to use interface for your hospitality business, whether it is for a restaurant POS system, hotel POS system, like Hotel Indigo, or a stadium POS system.  To learn more about how Pinnacle can improve your business through a POS system in Tampa, call 1-800-771-7100 today!

Dinerware for Sports Bars

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The Super Bowl is right around the corner and fans have been hitting up sports bars in record numbers. Casual dining restaurants, hotels and many other hospitality establishments cater to the sports crowds every year, offering specials centered around popular games. If you are a manager, you are more than familiar that while this time of year turns big profits, keeping sports fans coming back depends on more than what’s on the menu.

Pinnacle Hospitality Systems offers point of sale solutions for every type of business in the hospitality industry. Dinerware is intuitive restaurant software that works with your POSitouch system to further customize menus specific to your business. With Dinerware for sports bars, there are several added table features that help to make the entire dining experience more efficient from beginning to end. The FastPay feature allows you to close orders once payment is made, making the checkout process quick and easy. Menu items can be added or modified on the fly, perfect for happy hours or other specials that change daily depending on what games are on and the crowd expected. The built-in customer database allows you to look up customers instantly by name, phone number, address or email; order a customer favorite with the touch of a button! Everyone loves that sense of familiarity, and feeling that they are truly a valued customer who is remembered by the staff.

Also included in Dinerware are bar features, like the ability to name tickets with anything the bartender chooses, open and name bar tabs with the swipe of a credit card and with a few simple steps, a customer can order everyone at a table another round of drinks. Pinnacle’s Dinerware point of sale solution is the perfect addition to any sports bar around one of the busiest seasons of the year!

Pinnacle’s Nightclub/Bar Solution – The Fastest in the Industry

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Running a successful nightclub or bar is hard work. While running an efficient and effective restaurant is known to be challenging, managing a nightclub requires a skill set unique to any other hospitality business. Many owners put in a full day’s work and continue to work throughout the night.

At Pinnacle Hospitality Systems, we are aware of these special challenges, and have developed software for POSitouch that has been created specifically for the bar and nightclub industry. With the POSitouch Nightclub/Bar Solution, Pinnacle leverages the power of POSitouch to provide you with the ultimate in bar management software capabilities. Some of these features include a rolling minimal birth date shown on screen for required drinking age, the ability to manage multiple checks that may be cashed out at once, detailed drink recipes that can be displayed or printed at the screen, multiple easy-to-use size and color touch points and more. If this weren’t enough to speed up service, the POSitouch nightclub/bar solution requires only two key strokes to order an item and cash out the check – the fastest in the industry.

Some other functions that help to aid management in minimizing loss include a video record of all open cash drawer activity (as in No Sale), cash out reports can be management-driven only, automatic exception alarms to tell management when a cash draw has reached a pre-set limit of cash sales and cash drawer security allowing for only limited functions to enable a draw to be opened.

Pinnacle’s nightclub/bar solutions for POSitouch offer many more easy-to-use and convenient features to help your nightclub or bar run as efficiently as possible. Find out why so many businesses in this industry trust Pinnacle as their point of sale solution, call today at 1-800-771-7100.

POSitouch for Arenas and Stadiums

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Pinnacle provides point of sale system solutions for every type of hospitality industry, and arenas and stadiums are no exception. Pinnacle has created the perfect arena/stadium system by combining bar and quick service functions, as well as incorporating accounting, inventory, and even a wireless ordering system to cater to your skybox clientele.

POSitouch for arenas and stadiums features bar management functionalities, including a rolling minimal birth date shown on screen for required drinking age, tabs that can be started by the swipe of a customer’s credit card (including name), multiple checks that may be cashed out at once, and much, much more. Screens are configured to operate for both left and right-handed bartenders, like items are consolidated for a quick count of items on the check, priority printing allows for frozen drinks to print first, and there are plenty more unique, easy-to-use formatting options to allow the bar to function as efficiently as possible.

POSitouch quick service features an intuitive color touch screen that guides users through the menu quickly, an optional split screen that allows you to expedite the packing process, optional item consolidation and many more convenient options.

The arena/stadium point of sale configuration also includes the inventory tracking module that allows you to employ accurate data when managing your inventory and purchasing.  Eliminate the guesswork by controlling your inventory with accurate information on product movement and the cost of raw materials. Track all of the items needed to create each menu item with the recipe creation feature. With variance tracking, you can compare physical inventory to point of sale usage to determine any issues that need management attention. Lastly, you can generate purchase orders automatically based on minimum inventory level order points.

Wireless ordering for skybox clientele is provided by interfacing Symbol handheld computers with the POSitouch software system. For more information about wireless ordering and Pinnacle’s solutions for arenas and stadiums, click here or call a Pinnacle expert at 800.771.7100.