There was a post last week or before that mentioned a contractor charging $100,000 for expansion costs for an existing restaurant to add to its POS system as they expanded their operation, when running wires and adding hardware were included.
Saying that a restaurant can buy an off the shelf POS system for a few thou is ignoring all the other structural and service costs involved in buidling and managing a complex information system.
I would like to see a real cost comparison done by a new restaurant that explains their decisions about which system seems most cost effective for them.
Perhaps tenacious can provide such details after a visit to Trio to look at their implementation of FIRMS.
"The statistician can do away with epistemology.... Wishful thinking!"
-Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan