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For most restaurants in the US they are just too expensive compared to the alternative of having a low paid employee walk 15-30ft to a cash register. There's al
by jsz0 16y ago
For most restaurants in the US they are just too expensive compared to the alternative of having a low paid employee walk 15-30ft to a cash register. There's also a problem of paper receipts which many customers still demand. I have seen mobile POS devices with receipt printers. (ballpark $2-$3k as of a few years ago. Basically a Windows Mobile PDA attached to a little Epson receipt printer)
Total guess: Do waiters and service industry workers in Europe get paid a respectable wage? If you're paying someone a living wage saving the time spent going back and forth to the cash register is probably valuable enough to justify the cost of a mobile POS. Maybe the same deal in Japan?
- pwim 16y agoI think the devices _delirium is talking about aren't point of sale devices per se. In Japan, most chain izakaya (restaurants that serve a wide variety of food an drink) have devices that waiters punch your order into instead of writing it down or remembering it. This is especially useful there, as it is common to go with large groups of people (6 to 20+), and the menu often has about 100 different food items on it. In addition to staff operated devices, some restaurants have consoles where you can order your food from by navigating a software menu.