Star Micronics’ Extensive Range of mPOS Printing Solutions demonstrated by Partners at The Restaurant Show 2015, Olympia, London

High Wycombe, UK, 1 October 2015

At The Restaurant Show 2015 (5 - 7 October 2015, Olympia, London), international POS printer manufacturer Star Micronics will be demonstrating its ever expanding range of POS and mPOS printing solutions for hospitality via a number of partners. Visitors will be able see demonstrations of Star’s latest innovations including a digital receipting service AllReceipts™, all-in-one Bluetooth printer and cash drawer mobile point of purchase solution mPOP™ as well as Star’s new HI X Connect Series for cloud printing.

The Star team will be present on the EPOSability stand:

EPOSability is a leading cloud-based IT provider to the hospitality industry. Priding itself on staying at the forefront of technology, its offering is focused around iPad POS and complimentary services including; operational software, wireless infrastructure and bespoke POS hardware. Combining these together with an end to end service, allows it to offer an all-encompassing IT solution.

Other leading card payment and software partners include:

Elavon is a leading card payments provider to the restaurant sector in the UK. Its range of innovative products and services enable it to offer the best payment service to its customers, while simplifying the customer’s own systems and processes.

Shopkeep provides an intuitive, secure, iPad-based point-of-sale system and payment processing. ShopKeep empowers growing business owners to run smarter businesses by optimizing staffing, regulating inventory and accessing sales reports and customer information on one seamless, cloud-based platform.

Zapper is a mobile marketing and data insights platform for restaurants. Every time someone pays with Zapper, their name, spending habits, dining preferences and restaurant review is captured in a CRM dashboard. Restaurants can use this insight to their advantage to send tailored promotions or loyalty vouchers through the Zapper platform to their diners. Zapper is available in 800+ venues in the UK.

Lightspeed Restaurant provides mobile point of sale, business management, and customer analytics technology to cafés, bars, nightclubs, fine dining and chain restaurants in more than 30 countries.

Custom Adaptive provides Intelligent Menu Systems comprising of electronic blackboards, digital menu boards, EPOS Tills, self-service order points and customer information terminals. Integrated features including cloud management and reporting, kitchen management, order labeling, Ingredient management and allergy alerts ensure customers comply with European Legislation.

AlfaRichi is a UK company providing a complete restaurant EPOS system running on Android touch terminals, tablets and Smartphones, with a fully featured cloud back office.

Star’s digital receipting service, AllReceipts, offers retailers a free of charge, fast route to providing the customer with a digital copy of a print receipt as well as access to analytics, an in-store customer survey and device management tools. The service is available on all models of the hugely successful TSP100 futurePRNT™ series and will follow through on Star’s other receipt printer ranges.

For retailers and hospitality operators who want to use the latest mobile POS technology, Star provides a unique all-in-one Bluetooth cash drawer and printer mobile point of purchase solution. Outstanding connectivity and compact design alongside intuitive functionality and simple integration define Star’s unique easily integrated solution - mPOP.

Traditionally, restaurants have joined the fast growing number of aggregation societies in order to be included in the national TV, radio, web and printed media campaigns for the online ordering services where restaurateurs have to have a receipt printer as well as an aggregation printer constantly “polling” the Cloud. Star’s new HI X Connect printers will eliminate this need by being able to function as both traditional receipt printer and Cloud order receiving (aggregation) printer. With HI X Connect, restaurants can do both jobs with just the one printer as well as it being peripheral ready for “no PC required” functions.

If the printer is used as an aggregation printer with a keyboard attached directly to the printer via a small utility programme this eliminates the need for a PC. Furthermore, the restaurant can communicate directly with the customer and provide an appropriate response to each order received, i.e whether the order is accepted, rejected (restaurant closed) or delayed. In the case of the order being delayed there is the option to provide enhanced customer service. For example, the restaurant may offer a coupon for 20% off the customer’s next order as compensation for the delay as well as notifying them about exactly how long the order will take.

As Annette Tarlton, Marketing Director, Star Micronics EMEA, states: “Star prides itself on its position as a manufacturer of pioneering mPOS printing solutions. With an ever growing range of low cost yet innovative hardware and software printing solutions Star will continue to drive and shape today’s rapidly evolving mPOS marketplace.”