Lecere is a company based in Oregon that is composed of a team of individuals that have many years in the restaurant and technology fields. The FIRMS restaurant POS software solution is designed with future technologies in mind and offers a total restaurant point of sale solution. The software is an integrated set of SaaS modules used to excel any restaurant from a small mom and pop operation to a large well known chain.
FIRMS provides the restaurant owner five individual, on-demand modules:
Point of sales (POS), with online delivery or takeout accessible via a web browser, PDA, or cell phone
Networked, multiple-restaurant accounting
Powerful online reservations capability for restaurants, accessible via a web browser, PDA, or cell phone
Mapping and geocoding for directions to the restaurant, display of nearby, and optimized delivery
Data mining, which allows the restaurant to target selected customers for special offers
Lecere states on their website that with as little as an inexpensive handheld device you can purchase modules as your business grows. This will alleviate the high cost of certain business operations and improve customer service. FIRMS is compatible with a variety of handheld computers including the new Apple iPad eliminating the need for larger high cost POS systems.
Video – FIRMS Handheld Restaurant POS iPad Demonstration:
ASI boasts the Write-on Handheld restaurant point of sale software is a complete solution that can assist hundreds of restaurants through out the country. The software runs on numerous wireless handheld computers including the popular and seemingly inexpensive iPod Touch. You can take orders, process payments and do a variety of other things while never leaving the customer at the table. Using Write-on Handheld in conjunction with Restaurant Manager you can access all business data from numerous locations at the touch of a button on your handheld device.
Restaurant Manager is the true software behind the successful restaurant point of sale solution. The complete package includes the ability to run for customers to order online, receive real time alerts, the ability to add a touchscreen POS and an extensive backend restaurant manager with one stop reporting.
The company which has over 20 years experience in creating point of sale solutions states:
Our restaurant POS software can provide integrated Online Ordering, inventory management and control, wireless table side ordering and payment, real-time alerts, mobile management capabilities and robust back office management can help increase revenue, cut cost and boost your bottom line.
Video Outlining the Handheld Restaurant Manager POS Software
It’s a little outdated but it gives you the basic idea of the capabilities.
You can find much more valuable information at the company website and explore all the possibilities this could open for your restaurant.
When I recently visited a restaurant trade show, I noticed that there were just as much companies presenting POS systems as there were stands with on-line reservation systems, while I haven’t seen any reservation system on previous visits. When something new comes up that fast, I immediately suspect a hype.
So when talking to the good ol’ POS dealers, I asked them if they had received customer requests for on-line booking systems and whether their systems includes or can be linked to such a tool. As I already expected and according to my own experiences, no-one had received requests for on-line booking systems from their customers, and therefore none of them had included such a tool in their system. Some POS systems did have a bookings screen, and I even found one system that offers an API to connect external applications to the reservation module.