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Keke’s Breakfast Café is at Home with Pinnacle

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Do you have a favorite breakfast memory?  Perhaps it happened at an out-of-the-way restaurant during a family vacation, where the food was made to order with the season’s freshest ingredients.  Or maybe a piping hot stack of your grandmother’s pancakes comes to mind, dripping in maple syrup and crowned with a golden pat of butter.  The memory and taste is permanently etched in your mind, though no other breakfast seems to compare.

Well, Keke’s Breakfast Café in Orlando, Florida may change your mind. We often hear “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, but in today’s harried society, quality has been sacrificed for efficiency.  Liquid eggs, frozen waffles and processed meats have become common ingredients in many modern breakfast restaurants.

If you are looking for something like your grandmother used to make, then Keke’s is the place.  “It’s like your hometown diner grew up and went to the city”, says their motto—and their delicious gourmet twists on diner breakfast classics prove their point.  At Keke’s, they believe in value, where the diners feel the owner’s presence and taste the love in their homemade and fresh menu items.

Their famous waffles range from healthy, like the Granola Crunch Waffle topped with banana, to the decadent, like the Banana Split Waffle, with bananas, pineapple, fresh strawberries, chocolate, pecans and whipped cream.  But, they all share one thing in common—quality ingredients.  Customers may also choose from a large array of pancakes, French toasts and stuffed French toasts, like the tropical Pina Colada Stuffed French Toast with pineapple, coconut and cream cheese.  Omelets, eggs and home fries made from sliced red skin potatoes are also on the menu.

Keke’s Breakfast Café has been a long-time customer of Pinnacle Hospitality Systems and has depended on us for their quality POS system.  Keke’s uses POSitouch software to ensure their daily operations run smoothly.  POSitouch modules include Time & Attendance, Credit Authorization, Inventory Management, Accounting Interface and much more.  It is easy to use and expand, which is important for franchises like Keke’s.

If you are looking for a top-of-the-line POS system in Florida, visit our website or call Pinnacle Hospitality Systems today at 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!

Oldest Restaurant in Florida Relies on Pinnacle

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Columbia Restaurant has been a Florida tradition since 1905.  With restaurants across the state, Columbia has remained a popular and authentic choice for traditional Spanish and Cuban cuisine for over 100 years.  The fine dining experience is enhanced at their Tampa location, offering a picturesque view of the downtown Tampa waterfront.  Guests may choose from indoor or outdoor seating on the waterside terrace, that overlooks the Garrison Channel and Harbour Island.

People come from all over the state to dine at the famed Columbia Restaurant, known for the Original “1905 Salad” with beefsteak tomato, ham, Swiss cheese and garlic dressing.  Other family favorites and popular dishes from the restaurant’s flagship in Ybor City are Chicken and Rice Ybor, Shrimp “Al Ajilo” and Miranda’s Ybor City Devil Crab Croquettes.  Columbia offers their guests an opportunity to step back in time, where Spanish Cava Sangria is made tableside and customer service is the highest priority.

“When you’re Florida’s oldest restaurant, you believe in relationships, and relationships are generated because of service,” said Richard Gonzmart, President and owner of Columbia Restaurant in Tampa. “We provide service to our guests and Pinnacle provides immediate service to all of our nine restaurants around the state of Florida.  It’s a company we know we can count on.”

Gonzmart partnered with Pinnacle Hospitality Systems to operate his busy business back in 1992.  He wanted a POS system and provider that was both cutting-edge and able to manage a century-old family business.  “It is the right choice and the only choice I would have made back then and today,” he said.

“Pinnacle has helped our business identify what the trends of our customers desires are on the menu,” he said, which has helped control food cost issues and pricing.  “Since we’ve used Pinnacle, we’ve hit that magic number that my Dad sought for 40 years.  Pinnacle gave us the information needed to price the menu according to guest desires.”

The POSitouch enables restaurants to identify food categories where there is overuse or a shortage.  For example, this feature notifies managers when the Swiss cheese is running low for Columbia’s most popular salad.  Another way the POSitouch helps hospitality businesses run smoothly is through accounting and scheduling services.

“Labor expense is the difference between making and losing money.  Using POSitouch’s scheduling saves us money,” said Gonzmart.  “Pinnacle and the team helped us achieve the success we have achieved.”

Gonzmart selected Pinnacle Hospitality Systems’ POSitouch point-of-sale for its quality, experience and affordability.  Pinnacle helped his restaurant increase revenue through inventory control, loss prevention, labor management and food cost analysis.  Pinnacle’s 24-hour customer service representatives are always on call to help you with your hospitality business needs.  If you are searching for a quality POS system in Tampa, call 1-800-771-7100 now!

Tampa Bistro Chooses Pinnacle for Corporate Catering

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Jackson Street Bistro in the heart of downtown Tampa opened April 2009.  Since their debut two years ago, Jackson Street Bistro has become a popular lunch spot for the wave of business professionals in the downtown area.  The extensive menu, consisting of healthy comfort foods, combined with the chef’s exotic twist on traditional café favorites, keeps their customers coming back for more.

The restaurant has an open-air Tuscan feel, offering indoor and outdoor seating.  It is common to see the office crowd conducting casual business meetings over one of JSB’s make your own salads, all made with a mélange of baby spring lettuces and served with a freshly baked muffin.  Corporate customers also take advantage of the free WIFI, multi-tasking over a smoothie, quiche or specialties like the Bistro Club, with grilled chicken, avocado, bacon, feta and a mango chardonnay.

JSB also makes it possible for guests to enjoy their fresh and delicious fare without even leaving their workplace.  Their catering business is just as popular as their bistro, delivering to many of the surrounding high-rise building offices.  They make cakes to order for office parties and even offer online ordering, making delicious take-out and delivery a little more convenient.  Gone is the greasy pizza of take-out past—replaced by JSB’s fresh, gourmet menu items like the pressed Cuban sandwich, with choice of seasoned waffle fries or pineapple raisin coleslaw, Italian meat-stuffed muffalata and a build your own bistro burger.

Restaurant proprietor Peter Pergola has made improvements to the menu over the past couple of years.  He has tailored his restaurant and catering business to the downsized economy without compromising flavor.  He has also made the foods that everyone loves lighter by swapping out heavy ingredients, like the breadcrumbs in their scrumptious meatloaf, with healthier substitutes, like oatmeal.

To keep their successful catering business and bistro operating to the best of its ability, Jackson Street Bistro chose Pinnacle Hospitality Systems for their POS system. As a premium dealer, Pinnacle Hospitality Systems installs single store iControl Enterprise management systems on every POSitouch system deployed. iControl Enterprise Solution is an internet-based enterprise reporting and communications tool specifically tailored for restaurant operations using the POSitouch point-of-sale system.  The low cost single store iControl version has a tremendous return on investment that can be easily accessed through the profits created through features such as loss control prevention, management alerts, payroll and accounting interfaces and more.  That means single unit operators can use the loss prevention and management tools developed for big chains, without the investment.  If you are looking for a POS system in Tampa, call Pinnacle today at 1-800-771-7100!

Taverna Opa Tampa Keeps the Party Going with Pinnacle’s POSitouch

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You don’t need a passport to experience the best of Greece.  All you need is a healthy appetite for food and fun and a trip to Taverna Opa Tampa.  Taverna Opa Tampa features authentic Greek cuisine with authentic Greek hospitality.  Offering traditional Greek food and a chance to participate in a Greek table dance, replete with plate breaking and napkin tossing, Taverna Opa Tampa is the next best thing to visiting the deep blue, glittering Aegean Sea.

The family style menu serves up delicious classics pulled from Greek native and veteran restaurateur Peter Tsialiamanis’ own family recipes.  When he opened the original Taverna Opa in Hollywood, Florida in 1998, Tsialiamanis hoped to create “a gathering place for guests to celebrate the basic elements of life, good food, drink and music, enjoyed with family and friends.”  His vision has been realized over and over again, with Taverna Opa’s now appearing across the state of Florida.

The Tampa restaurant is seafront, which adds to the overall atmosphere and appeal of the rustic menu.  Guests come to enjoy items like the Pastitso, or “Greek Lasagna”, with homemade creamy béchamel or Mousaka, with layers of roasted eggplant, potatoes and ground beef.  Served family-style, a table can also order platters of dolmades, or stuffed grape leaves, traditional meat kabobs and spanakopita, spinach pie.

The food is only part of the fun, as guests can dance with Zorba dancers to a blend of Greek and middle-eastern music, which picks up tempo as the night beats on.

With many restaurants to manage, Taverna Opa needs a quality POS system.  Taverna Opa Tampa relies on Pinnacle Hospitality Systems to bring their guests the ultimate Grecian experience—from belly dancers to the festive saganaki, flaming cheese with brandy.  In a family-style restaurant like Taverna Opa Tampa, POSitouch for restaurants allows Dinerware software to set up and enter the theoretical cost of an item.

This feature helps compare costs by keeping a weekly or monthly report, promoting loss prevention and overall profitability.  For more details on how POSitouch Dinerware software can help your restaurant, or to find a POS system in Tampa, please do not hesitate to call Pinnacle at 1-800-771-7100!

Pair of Tampa Area Japanese Steakhouses Rely on Pinnacle

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If you ask a Tampa Bay diner where to find the best hibachi style Japanese cuisine, the overwhelming response will be Tsunami Japanese Steakhouse.  The popular restaurant fuses a traditional menu with a contemporary atmosphere, all at a reasonable price.  The Teppanyaki tableside cooking performed by expertly trained Japanese chefs has customers flocking to Tsunami and begging for more.

Owner Robert Smith has answered the demand by recently opening Ryuu Japanese Steakhouse in the Brandon Towncenter Mall.  Ryuu, pronounced “Loo”, is the Japanese word for dragon and is the sister site of Tsunami.  The new restaurant offers the same cool atmosphere with group tables set up for a traditional hibachi grill dining experience.  Though the food is familiar, each chef brings his own style and flair to the table, entertaining and dazzling customers with tricks, wit and delicious food.

Ryuu prides itself on using chemical-free meat and vegetables, with absolutely no additives.  The chicken and shrimp is farm-raised and only the highest quality certified Angus and Wagyu beef is served to their customers.  Ryuu also offers a sushi bar with over 40 items, ranging from straightforward spicy tuna and salmon rolls to the elaborate Waikiki Roll, stuffed with coconut shrimp, cream cheese, asparagus, cucumber, smelt roe and scallion, topped with sliced mango, avocado and served with a tangy orange marmalade.

But, Ryuu strives to be more than a traditional, authentic Japanese steakhouse.

“There’s just as much attention paid to the service and the dining experience as to the food itself,” said Smith to the St. Petersburg Times.  “It’s a pleasurable place.  You’re not just a customer—you’re a guest.”

To manage busy restaurants like Ryuu and Tsunami, Smith and his staff depend on Pinnacle Hospitality Systems.  The open architecture of POSitouch allows for the integration of programs like Midnite Expresses Teppanyaki Table Software to uniquely meet the individual needs of Japanese steakhouses.  The software is designed to handle the special aspects of having a chef create dinners for ten to 12 customers at one table on different checks.  Not only are the checks handled separately, but ingredients to produce the meals are also calculated and requisitioned in the kitchen.

Pinnacle provides POS systems in Tampa for a diverse range of hospitality businesses.  For more information on how Pinnacle can structure a POS system that specifically caters to your restaurant’s needs, call 1-800-771-7100 today!

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!