Aloha POS Newsletter | June 2010 | www.Platinumpos.com |
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In This Issue Top Story: Case Study: News: Aloha BLT Steak - NY Aloha Tips & Best Practices CISP Compliance
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Platinum Technology now offers the industry’s only real time draft control system to the NY Metro market, Bevchek. Bevchek is the first company to introduce a real time, web based Draft Beer Control System to the hospitality industry. This state of the art system uses the most accurate and reliable technology available today. The Bevchek Draft Beer System provide restaurant and bar owners with detailed, real time data comparing sales from their Aloha POS terminals relative to real time pours captured through Bevchek’s advanced flow metering technology. The resulting data is delivered to owners and management in a meaningful format, accessible anytime from anywhere via an Internet connection. The Bevchek Draft Beer Management Control System combines several technologies to deliver real-time results. The Bevchek Draft Beer Control System provides hospitality establishment owners with real-time product sales from their Aloha POS terminals relative to real-time pours measured through our advanced flow meter technology. This dynamic inventory management and data monitoring system highlights slippage caused by theft, carelessness, inefficiency, over/under pouring and negligence. The Bevchek Draft Beer Management Control System identifies problems quickly and simply. The Bevchek Draft Beer Control System provides by-the-minute variance reports and can be customized to provide alerts through email or mobile phones if any reported variances slip outside desired operating parameters.
Copper Cellar Restaurants Tap into Real-Time Technology Copper Cellar Restaurants selected Bevchek as their provider of draft beer monitoring systems back in 2007 after encountering the product at a trade show and executing a very successful pilot. The pilot was implemented at Copper Cellar concept Calhoun’s and was a well kept secret by Mike Gaston, MIS Director and Brewmaster Marty Velas. Gaston and Velas were able to immediately identify not only significant slippage but with Bevchek, they were able to zero in on variances by brand and time period. “We realized that our slippage was 20‐30%; with the more popular brands coming in around 25%,” said Marty Velas. It wasn’t long before the pilot was revealed to bartending and management staff. “Our slippage went down on average, between 5‐10%,” stated Gaston. In the long run, Gaston and Velas planned on achieving an ambitious slippage rate of less than 5%. After the Calhoun’s micro‐brewery pilot, the roll‐out went into high gear with installations in the 3 Smoky Mountain Breweries, 4 Calhoun’s restaurants and the “original” Copper Cellar. “Results have been great,” remarks Gaston. “We achieved our objective of reducing slippage to less than 5% and we’re now gearing up to install our tenth restaurant.” Staff adoption of the beer monitoring technology has been positive. The restaurants typically run 2 shifts per day – lunch and dinner.“It’s been an evolution of our corporate culture. Reviewing Bevchek’s real time data is now just part of the daily routine for the managers and bartenders.It just takes a few minutes a day for managers and bartenders to review the data and complete their shift analysis" Mike Gaston, MIS Director “Bevchek gave us the data we needed to pinpoint slippage and link results with other operational factors like time periods and staffing” Brew Master Marty Velas Backed by Radiant Systems, a global provider of point of sale technology to the hospitality and retail industries, Radiant Payment Services (RPS) helps businesses like yours safely and efficiently process customer transactions and leverage the information related to those transactions. From the time a transaction is made through settlement of funds, we manage the entire transaction process. As a result, you have fewer points of contact with fewer opportunities for error – while benefiting from heightened security, competitive and transparent pricing and an integrated, end-to-end solution that is easier to implement and manage. In addition to the infra structure benefits, switching to RPS may offer other benefits that can include: Token Replacement, a payment processing security feature of the Aloha POS that allocates a unique identifier, or token, to cardholder data to prevent personal information from being stored on the point of sale Discounts on future hardware or software purchases as long as you are currently processing with RPS 3 year rate lock A meet or beat rate guarantee and a waiver of the $395 change processor fee normally associated with credit card processing changes Possible discounted pricing for Aloha Restaurant Guard, which includes 365 day catastrophic data backup and automatic batch notification |
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