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Resturant Table control systems
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I have a follow-up on these lines....
I am a computer geek, as mentioned earlier, and am purchasing a restaurant that has the Aloha system.
I have no idea what version, but it's less than 1 year old.
It uses IBM terminals (4)...the owner say "expandable to 5 units"
They also have a printer in the kitchen.
They guy said he paid $23k for all --- that seems to be in line with what I am hearing here as well.
I saw the file server, and it looks old.
So my question is 2-fold. Is the system really limited to 5 units? Or is this just a 6-port switch they gave him and he thinks he's limited to just 5.
Secondly, I have lots of new XP boxes around -- cuz I am a geek -- and would rather use boxes I trust for mission critical apps. Can't I use one of these for a file server? All it should have is the management software and the database -- it doesn't have a cash drawer or touch-screen....???
What I want to do is setup my XP Server, install the software from scratch, then register each terminal with the server --- is it not that easy?
thanks in advance....
I am a computer geek, as mentioned earlier, and am purchasing a restaurant that has the Aloha system.
I have no idea what version, but it's less than 1 year old.
It uses IBM terminals (4)...the owner say "expandable to 5 units"
They also have a printer in the kitchen.
They guy said he paid $23k for all --- that seems to be in line with what I am hearing here as well.
I saw the file server, and it looks old.
So my question is 2-fold. Is the system really limited to 5 units? Or is this just a 6-port switch they gave him and he thinks he's limited to just 5.
Secondly, I have lots of new XP boxes around -- cuz I am a geek -- and would rather use boxes I trust for mission critical apps. Can't I use one of these for a file server? All it should have is the management software and the database -- it doesn't have a cash drawer or touch-screen....???
What I want to do is setup my XP Server, install the software from scratch, then register each terminal with the server --- is it not that easy?
thanks in advance....
AkamaiAloha
MIS
Open Tables is another one I see being used, when I DO see them. To be honest, I don't see a lot of restaurants using table management. But that may be because we don't have too many fine dining establishments as customers.
In a lot of cases, your POS system can interface to it as well, though I've seen it run "stand alone".
In a lot of cases, your POS system can interface to it as well, though I've seen it run "stand alone".
These table control systems are growing in number as the number of fine dinning restaurants increase. They are being bought because of the online reservation feature customers can access and business owners like it because it makes it very easy to get names and addresses for mailers and such. Aloha interfaces with one of the ones mentioned, it will show what tables have paid, and what tables have been bussed and ready for seating through a gui on the reservations system.
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