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Restaurant reservation systems

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Restaurant Reservation

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.

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RFID gets software standard

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RFID Label

The advising body EPCGlobal has approved the first software standard for RFID labels in the retail sector. This is an important step on the road to replace barcodes on products with a RFID label.

EPCGlobal is a daughter of GS1, a world-wide federation for products and retailers of consumer goods. In December 2004 they agreed on a standard for the information on the RFID label itself and the way this information is communicated between the label and the reader.

The standard software connection makes sure that these data can be processed by many information systems for supporting the merchandise logistics. The hundred companies behind this standard called Application Level Events (ALE) standard, says they successfully finished the first tests in supply-chain software.

WEPOS products

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Directly after the presentation of Microsoft’s Windows Embedded for Point Of Service platform, many of the major vendors presented their latest products on the Retail Systems 2005 Conference and Exposition, all for the WEPOS platform. HP announced further co-operation with Agilysys on their rp5000 device, Wincor Nixdorf added WEPOS to their popular BEETLE systems and Star Micronics also passed WEPOS verification with their TSP700 printer. Every major provider is jumping on the WEPOS train, but will the retailers also?

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