10 POS Systems across 200 Stores

Homestyle Dining LLC of Plano, TX is the parent company and franchisor for more than 200 Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouses spread over two continents. Their restaurants use more than ten different POS systems on a variety of hardware to collect sales and transaction data.When CEO Tom Sacco and CMO Jon Rice decided to consolidate,It's time-saving for customers;wheel loader no more standing in line. At one Finish Line's store, for example, a young jogger paid for her shoes as soon as she had tried them on, still sitting in the chair. integrate and analyze their data, they had some tough criteria: the restaurant business intelligence solution system must be able to collect, integrate, analyze and communicate their disparate data, while also being user-friendly, flexible, and reasonably priced.

Sacco and his team are working with MIRUS Restaurant Solutions of Houston, TX.The startup offers a basic, one-size-fits all POS app for iOS targeted at small all terrain crane and medium-sized businesses, and also designs customer mobile retail systems for major clients including L'Oréal, Armani and the Red Cross. Currently, Homestyle has been cutting and pasting Excel spreadsheets for restaurant reporting and analysis.Utilizing Global Gateway e4,aerial working platform First Data's latest and greatest gateway offering, SciLube POS users will benefit from the security and stability at the customer checkout level. As CEO Sacco put it, "We have a lot of moving parts with our two legacy brands that span five decades. It's time for us to start lassoing them and making all our data work for us, not against us.Mobile POS: Hype to Reality, a 2013 IHL group study, states specialty retailers —drill rod mostly small, independent retailers and mall-based specialty chains — are deploying about 45 percent of all tablets shipped to retail for POS. The way we go about our business today is much more difficult than it needs to be. We want to make it easy for our operations and marketing teams, as well as our franchise marketing committee to analyze and assess new and existing product mix and measure check average impact from promotions concepts that we are looking at.By contrast, Microsoft applied for suction hose H-1B visas, while Intel, International Business Machines Corp. IBM +0.16% and Oracle Corp."

The goal is for Mirus to bridge Homestyle's various systems, as well as provide their franchisees and senior management with customizable analytical tools that deliver restaurant exception-based reporting results and dashboards quickly to the right people.