One unit is already in the streets, testing the gut of hungry customers. “It’s a fun way to re-introduce people to Sizzler,” says Kerry Kramp, chief executive of Sizzler’s. “If they think we’re cool enough to do great food on a food truck, they may think we’re cool enough to check out our restaurants.” “New technology has been a game changer, allowing trucks to pick up and move to where the customers are on short notice using Twitter to post messages on followers’ cell phones, alert customers of their whereabouts and even ask for tips on parking spaces. Included in all this is the new POS app from ISISPOS,” says Scott Forrestall CEO of ISISPOS.
ISISPOS’s technology not only helped Sizzler’s truck get off the ground, but they are starting a revolution in the way restaurants build relationships. They put something better on the menu for the food service industry. It’s a new type of restaurant called ISISPOS and it changes the way restaurant owners, managers, front-of-the-house staff and back-of-the-house staff all interact with customers, each other, and their restaurant software.

The idea of running a Sizzler truck grew after the chain’s chief executive, Kerry Kramp, saw people wait for nearly an hour to get food from vendors parked along Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice.
The new breed of lunch truck is aggressively gourmet, tech-savvy and politically correct. The Green Truck, which sells “sustainably harvested” fish tacos, roams the streets of Los Angeles in vehicles fueled by vegetable oil. The Dessert Truck in New York is owned by a former Le Cirque pastry sous chef who donates proceeds from desserts such as a pavlova with red fruit gelée to charity. In the San Francisco Bay area, the RoliRoti rotisserie truck serves free-range chicken, heritage pork and local lamb, prepared by owner Thomas Odermatt, a Swiss former organic farming student whose business card reads “Rotisseur.”
About ISISPOS:

ISISPOS is the perfect recipe for restaurant success. What do you get when you throw restaurant software developers, businessmen with respect for the bottom line and folks with decades of restaurant experience into the kitchen? You get a totally innovative, totally amazing product and service designed to make restaurants better, more productive, more profitable and more successful than ever. ISISPOS is a brand new iPad based restaurant POS system that works out of the box. And just like the iPad it runs on, the restaurant POS system is also incredibly easy-to-use. No learning curve. No complex staff training to worry about. Just launch the app and go. Servers love the simplicity. Owners and management love what it does for sales. For something that costs a lot less, you’d be surprised to learn that ISISPOS iPad for is full of features, easy to use and totally wireless.

A wireless new POS system is now available for restaurateurs everywhere. ISISPOS in an enterprise single or multi-unit integrated point-of-sale system designed exclusively for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The Kitchen Display Solution displays incoming orders in real time with never before imagined abilities to manage the prep-time of courses and tickets “It’s simple and refreshingly unique,” said Paul Perri, Executive Vice President. Build a more resourceful kitchen with ISISPOS Kitchen Display Solution includes features such as color alerts for when allocated prep time is exceeded or running out, orders display in different colors to indicate an order has exceed prep time. KDS creates audio notifications for custom alerts, an intuitive display for Rush Order, VIP and Void status, and Order Recall making information readily available at a moment’s notice.

The Kitchen Display Solution can easily be mounted to display orders on a wireless TV monitor for a ticketing system everyone in the kitchen can see. It requires minimum upkeep and allows for maximum efficiency in the kitchen. Running on a standard wireless Apple iPad, KDS is on the local WiFi network and uses Apple iOS capabilities. The KDS solution provides late order notifications, an open or closed order tracking system, custom timers, and customer or table number view for easy expediting. Each feature allows employees to communicate in a busy, demanding environment. KDS offers restaurant managers an affordable solution that eliminates the need for propriatery controllers.
“We’re changing the way restaurant owners, managers, front-of-the-house staff and back-of-the-house staff all interact with customers, each other, and their restaurant software, stated Perri. “This is a huge innovation!” ISISPOS uses portable Apple technology and the Amazon Cloud to create a POS system for the 21st century. It completely integrates the entire food ordering process from customer to server to kitchen and back to the customer. It’s a totally new system that’s easy to use and cost effective that customers, servers and chefs will love.

ISISPOS, the Apple restaurant point of sale software company announces the availability of its restaurant POS software to operate on iPod touch and iPhone, in addition to iPad. ISISPOS support for Apple products allows servers to take orders and process payments directly in front of their customers, rather than visiting a busy, fixed workstation.

Servers can visit tables with the iPod touch or iPhone for pairing suggestions on the spot, an easy to use wine selection mode, and a way to display daily specials with just the touch of a button. Ringing in an order is as simple as selecting its corresponding image. ISISPOS automates all pricing, including support for discounts, service charges, split checks and much more.

“Restaurants that embrace new technological tools have a business advantage,” says Executive Vice President, Paul Perri. “Smart restaurants aren’t ignoring technology, they’re figuring out how to make it work for them.” The old traditional POS model has increased complexity and generates additional cost, according to ISISPOS IT experts. With mobile POS, entrepreneurs improve servicing the guest and edging out the competition.

In addition to this convenient system for servers, managers utilizing the mobile manager applicationfor iPod touch and iPhone can oversee their restaurant on a completely wireless basis. Owners and managers operating on an anywhere, anytime philosophy are able to make changes, effect operations, make decisions that impact the bottom line, and increase customer satisfaction.

ISISPOS offers a pay-as-you-go model for its restaurant POS products. The pay-as-you-go model minimizes financial risk because there are no up-front costs. CFOs can account for business value generated by the service during the same financial period as costs are incurred.

For more information visit http://www.isispos.com/ or tweet the company @ISISPointOfSale.

About ISISPOS:

ISISPOS is a revolutionary hospitality point of sale system that combines Apple innovation with powerful business logic; it offers fully featured and easy to use solutions designed for the restaurant industry. ISISPOS provides an anywhere, anyplace web-based interface that produces clear reports and analytics of single or multi-store operations, saving companies time and giving them absolute control over their business operations.

Pay-as-you-go model
The pay-as-you-go model minimizes both project and financial risk because organizations can scale the project based on business results and also ensure that vendors are held accountable over the project’s lifetime. There are no large up-front investments that lock a project into a specific technology. That means CFOs can account for the business value generated by the service during the same financial period as costs are incurred. In other words, cloud computing provides a better way for IT departments and CFOs to match investments in a project with business value or return.

There is little risk and no up-front costs
Because there is little risk and no up-front costs, cloud computing helps hospitality companies attain better technology despite reduced capital budgets. And because charges from technology vendors usually go in the column of business expenses rather than capital expenses, hotels can invest in cloud-based projects even when IT budgets are slashed.

Multiple environments are immediately available to developers
With cloud computing, multiple environments are immediately available to developers, testers, trainers, and end users. And all environments are vertically integrated with ready-to-use services for project managers and administrators. These services include user administration, security, globalization, and centralized governance, all of which help to reduce project time and cost.

Performance tuning, patches, and upgrades are delivered as part of the service
Once the application is built and deployed, the vendor manages the burden of operational maintenance. Performance tuning, patches, and upgrades are delivered as part of the service, with minimal demands on the property’s IT team. As a result, your IT team can focus on delivering business value instead of keeping busy with standard maintenance and administration tasks. For example, instead of providing an upgrade every other year, at considerable expense to the customer, ISISPOS delivers three or four major upgrades every year that cost customers nothing. Every time a major innovation is released, every customer instantly benefits. for more information on our iPad POS solution please visit us at www.isispos.com

ISISPOS recently received $2 million in funding from Canadian communications giant CaTech Systems. ISISPOS develops software that operates on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, is a leader in the hospitality industry and is also backed by top technology companies Apple and Amazon.

ISISPOS offers portable restaurant software using devices such as iPad and iPhone, creating innovative and efficient ways for restaurants to do business. Its iPad restaurant POS solution has made it possible for servers to take orders right at the table, transmit those orders directly to the kitchen, show customers a visual of what they’re ordering, or get instant pairing recommendations to increase sales. By using the iPad tablet and this point of sale solution, servers can accept credit card payments, split checks, void items, and reward repeat customers with coupons without walking to and from crowded computer stations. ISISPOS assembled a team of executives with over 50 years of combined experience in the POS industry. The team also has substantial restaurant experience in everything from waiting tables to management to owning and/or operating, therefore understanding the need for innovative software and a better guest experience. ISISPOS assigns as many as 13 programmers to development projects at once. With over 20 years of experience, CaTech Systems consists of a team of certified technicians, network specialists, wireless specialists, and certified project managers. The combined industry expertise of these two companies should prove successful for future software endeavors.

ISISPOS is a global operation; its installations are also established in Europe, Asia, and Australia. With this application, restaurants in any location have the opportunity to go totally wireless. “We offer a truly anyplace, anywhere, anytime environment and eliminate the need for restaurant-based, back office computers,” says EVP of ISISPOS, Paul Perri.
For software demonstrations, visit the ISISPOS homepage at http://www.isispos.com. For other news and updates, connect with ISISPOS on Facebook.

About ISISPOS:
ISISPOS is a revolutionary hospitality point of sale system that combines Apple innovation with powerful business logic; it offers fully featured and easy to use solutions designed for the restaurant industry. ISISPOS provides an anywhere, anyplace web-based interface that produces clear reports and analytics of single or multi-store operations, saving companies time and giving them absolute control over their business operations.

About CaTech Systems Ltd:
CaTech provides services related to structured cabling, telephone systems, wireless networks, data centers, security and digital media. In 2009, the CaTech Systems team received the High Quality and Service Award from the Canadian Board of Trade.
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At ISISPOS our vision is all about ‘touch,’ meaning the ability to interact with the guest on all levels”. From headquarters to individual properties throughout the world, ISISPOS is changing the way restauranteurs do business. With easy to use features like suggestive paring, Item favorites, event and package coupons ISISPOS is taking orders and It’s all on iPad.

Our customers are showing their guests how to get to theaters, shows and other points of interests, If guests want to see what a specific dish looks like they simply touch the items and the use iPad. From writing up notes during a meeting to automatically making a PDF, and emailing it, The iPad has already become part and parcel of the way we do business.

For the IT staff, supporting iPad has been a straightforward process requiring no formal user training, customers simply enter their account information and immediately begin using the device. Get instant synchronization without any IT involvement.” It’s fast, it’s secure, and it’s easy to use. Once the devices are activated, users can expand the capabilities of their iPads by downloading business apps such as Keynote, Documents To Go, and Drop box from the App Store. With the App Store and the iOS platform, users can find and implement their own solutions without IT intervention.

With ISISPOS and iPad, managers have an immediate, full-size view of their financial data, and other business resources wherever they are. So wouldn’t it make sense that you we’re alerted when something in the restaurant occurred? well with ISISPOS thats part of our core product.

W’re always looking at ways to make things simpler as mobility is an enormous part of a restaurateurs job, We are currently developing apple-accessible apps that allow guests to order, view amenities, review charges, and check out all on their own devices.

We are uniquely suited to the round-the-clock, perpetual-motion world of hospitality.

‣ ISISPOS is totally wireless, therefore no wiring is required.
‣ ISISPOS hardware is easily “swappable” eliminating the need for 24/7 hardware service.
‣ ISISPOS does NOT use a back office, but rather cloud computing. Providing a no downtime environment.
‣ ISISPOS upfront cost is a fraction of “traditional” POS.
‣ ISISPOS is powered by two of the biggest names in business. . . Apple and Amazon!
‣ ISISPOS is truly an easy to use fully featured POS system
‣ ISISPOS is truly enterprise and a multi-unit solution

At ISISPOS, we’re going to make the “traditional” POS model obsolete. Sign up today for an ISISPOS iPad restaurant demo and experience the difference.

1. Work on budgets and costings
2. Induction & Skills Training: show videos on the iPad – store them in Movies, or link to the YouTube version.
3. Safety Training and Information
4. Kitchen iQ is a safety inspection app
5. Add Online Content to Briefings and Training
6. Record notes at staff meetings: don’t just take notes, but record the meeting at the same time with an app like SoundNote.
7. Display and Sell from the Menu
8. Display and Sell from the Wine List
9. Find Cocktail Recipes: there are dozens of Cocktail apps,
10. Ask for Customer Feedback: apps like SurveyNow and iFeedKiosk and ISISPOS
11. Keep Children Occupied
12. Create a Photo Gallery of Function and Event Pictures: rooms
13. Browse through Function Packages and Menus
14. Connect Customers to your Facebook Page
15. Add people to your Mailing List
16. Check guests into there rooms
17. Concierges will love this
18. Replace your obsolete POS system
19. Customer Online ordering
20. Presentations

Look for feature enhancing guest services globally with ISISPOS as restaurants and hospitality professionals aim to make customers, and guests feel even more welcome by providing amenities and services that meet their needs as quickly and directly as possible. With ISISPOS, restauranteurs and hospitality executives now have an ideal application that delivers the kind of seamless guest services they have always wanted to deliver.

We have some very cool plans that are now underway that will change an organization, enhance everything from table side service to guest loyalty, hotel registration, to in-room services. “We’re looking at ways to make things simpler for,” everything from training and taking orders to welcoming VIP guests.

Just think, when guests walk into your restaurant, they’ll be greeted by staff with iPads.And as the iPad is also a natural fit for the staff, They’re showing guests how to get to a theater, ordering a cab or just simply providing information. If guests want to see what a specific dish looks like the server can just pull it up on their iPad.

For the IT staff, supporting iPad has been a straightforward process requiring no formal user training. Using the same infrastructure and messaging platform that has already established for iPhone, users simply enter their account information and immediately begin using the iPad device.

“With iPad, the interaction between the guest and hospitality is now seamless, it will change everything.

The surface has only been scratched. 



Apple has advanced the technology so fast that it has seemingly gained credit as having invented it. If we are to see application of touch-screen technology in the restaurant industry anywhere similar to the fairytale portrayed over the years it will come from Apple and its legions of app developers.  It’s not the hardware that makes iPad successful, it’s the hundreds of thousands of applications.

To think through the potential future uses of an iPad in the hospitality industry, we just have to envision the things we do on the go. 

-Core Point of Sale
-Guest Self ordering
-Loyalty Gift Card
-Digital menus
-Hotel check In
-VIP programs
-Kiosks
-Inventory control
-Surveys
-Training


The iPad will very likely be the first generation of a new form of personal computer which will grow from novelty to category giant.  Many predict the iPad is the future of personal computing.  Whether they are entirely right or just partially right, what the iPad offers can be put to work in the restaurant industry immediately and its usefulness is only likely to grow.