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.
ok, bring your side to the table (like I've asked) and I think that will provide LCRE the opportunity to prove their side. Help educate us on why this is not a good investment. I'm listening.
For what its worth my company is changing POS terminals to a company called HALO. I was on a presentation call yesterday and it uses SaaS modules and cloud computing. It will save us some money on equipment costs but not alot. Heres the cost per terminal....$25k...I need 3. I dont do tableside service but thats expensive. I wish LCRE was further along I would have made some recomendations.