Food trucks becoming upwardly mobile | Nation's Restaurant News - 0 views
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Such innovations are aimed at a food-truck sector largely populated by small entrepreneurs with good reasons to embrace technology but little means to afford it.
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To make mobile management technology more accessible to truck operators, Mobi Munch recently incorporated the centrally hosted Micros Simphony point-of-sale system into its food-truck technology suite.
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The system provides detailed reporting and business intelligence to operators and enables online credit authorization via the 4G/3G network. Because it is centrally hosted, stored data is never at risk even in the event of hardware failure on the truck. 29
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The Simphony platform can be preloaded with tax information for all jurisdictions that trucks visit.
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At the National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show in Chicago recently, Mobi Munch showed off the LudoTruck, one of 28Los Angeles’ well-known mobile eateries, equipped with the 28Micros Workstation 5 running Micros Simphony, a cash drawer, thermal printer, SunTronic 42-inch high-brightness LCD and DT610 wireless tablet. The LCD displays video, static image marketing and streaming entertainment media. The Micros hardware, also used in demanding environments like cruise ships and trains, is free of moving parts apt to fail, like hard drives and fans, Soulakis said. 29
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is testing a new POS system running on iPads in a few trucks, said co-owner Josh Hiller. In addition to handling sales, it manages inventory and staff scheduling for a price of about $2,500, he said.
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Mobi Munch is an LA-based company that designs and builds food trucks. They have recently begun adapting and implementing digital age systems for their clients. Among the innovations are POS systems built to survive the stresses of heavy transit, GPS systems for reporting of truck locations, and sophisticated video displays for customers. The Micros Simphony POS is now part of its food truck technology suite. Perhaps the most important upgrade is credit card authorization via the 4G/3G network because for many the norm was handwritten tickets.