What Are You Doing Right Now

WrCombs

watching my co worker try to figure out how to configure a D-Link AP for our HR POS (IPAD based POS system) . It's quite Comical to be honest.

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

watching my co worker try to figure out how to configure a D-Link AP for our HR POS (IPAD based POS system) . It's quite Comical to be honest.

Everything about that statement is comical, from the D-Link AP to the HR PoS and the iPad. . .

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

watching my co worker try to figure out how to configure a D-Link AP for our HR POS (IPAD based POS system) . It's quite Comical to be honest.

Everything about that statement is comical, from the D-Link AP to the HR PoS and the iPad. . .

i thought the fact we were using D-Link AP was hilarious .
HR PoS (Heartland Restaurant PoS) is something our sales man / president decided we're going to start doing .
and it's ran on an IPad through a "portal"
I dont know much about it because my new boss wants me to focus on Aloha (server/windows10 ) support.

DustinB3403

I get the benefit/value of having an all in one internet enabled PoS system, food trucks, carts etc all make perfect sense to need this. But why does it need an AP?

iPads come with the option of Cellular data, why complicate it further by needing separate internet provided over dedicated WiFi?

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I get the benefit/value of having an all in one internet enabled PoS system, food trucks, carts etc all make perfect sense to need this. But why does it need an AP?

iPads come with the option of Cellular data, why complicate it further by needing separate internet provided over dedicated WiFi?

I just asked the guy who is our "Product Specialist" on the subject and he said " an Added Layer of Protection to keep it away from regular wifi .

and that came from the Provider.

WrCombs

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I get the benefit/value of having an all in one internet enabled PoS system, food trucks, carts etc all make perfect sense to need this. But why does it need an AP?

iPads come with the option of Cellular data, why complicate it further by needing separate internet provided over dedicated WiFi?

I just asked the guy who is our "Product Specialist" on the subject and he said " an Added Layer of Protection to keep it away from regular wifi .

and that came from the Provider.

and for our network printers to work for receipts and kitchen tickets

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I get the benefit/value of having an all in one internet enabled PoS system, food trucks, carts etc all make perfect sense to need this. But why does it need an AP?

iPads come with the option of Cellular data, why complicate it further by needing separate internet provided over dedicated WiFi?

I just asked the guy who is our "Product Specialist" on the subject and he said " an Added Layer of Protection to keep it away from regular wifi .

and that came from the Provider.

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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

and for our network printers to work for receipts and kitchen tickets

Why does the PoS system need printers and tickets at all? Why isn't the entire thing digital?

DustinB3403

Is there special WiFi or regular WiFi. Gosh did I not buy the Special WiFi equipment. . .

DustinB3403

Also just what I want to continue, the practice of kitchen staff touching filthy paper orders/receipts while they prepare the food that goes into my body.

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I get the benefit/value of having an all in one internet enabled PoS system, food trucks, carts etc all make perfect sense to need this. But why does it need an AP?

iPads come with the option of Cellular data, why complicate it further by needing separate internet provided over dedicated WiFi?

I just asked the guy who is our "Product Specialist" on the subject and he said " an Added Layer of Protection to keep it away from regular wifi .

and that came from the Provider.

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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

and for our network printers to work for receipts and kitchen tickets

Why does the PoS system need printers and tickets at all? Why isn't the entire thing digital?

they have the option to email receipts, and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.
so how would the cooks know what the order was

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Also just what I want to continue, the practice of kitchen staff touching filthy paper orders/receipts while they prepare the food that goes into my body.

Kitchen staff doesn't touch receipts. . .
and 85 % of restaurants use kitchen Printers where they are touching "Filthy Paper orders"
hell there are some that are still using Hand written tickets - which is way less sanitary than Kitchen printers.

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

they have the option to email receipts, and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.
so how would the cooks know what the order was

Put in a kitchen video system. The wait staff takes the order, punches it into a tablet at the counter, that order gets sent to another iPad/some other that's in the kitchen.

Or they just yell the order to the kitchen.

Or something like RedRobin has where you as the waiter order whatever right from the table and you have no "waiter".

wirestyle22

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Also just what I want to continue, the practice of kitchen staff touching filthy paper orders/receipts while they prepare the food that goes into my body.

in the same vein--we wash our hands constantly with antibacterial soap but somehow it's enough in the US to just use paper to clean our anus during the day. Wild

pmoncho

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Also just what I want to continue, the practice of kitchen staff touching filthy paper orders/receipts while they prepare the food that goes into my body.

I'm not sure there is a difference between the paper orders/receipts vs multi-user tongs, spatulas, counters, pump sauce dispensers and even touch screens. Seems the paper orders is the least of your worries.

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Kitchen staff doesn't touch receipts. . .
and 85 % of restaurants use kitchen Printers where they are touching "Filthy Paper orders"
hell there are some that are still using Hand written tickets - which is way less sanitary than Kitchen printers.

I completely understand, and I would prefer to not have humans at all touch my food if possible, I'm saying more hands off the better.

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

they have the option to email receipts, and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.
so how would the cooks know what the order was

Put in a kitchen video system. The wait staff takes the order, punches it into a tablet at the counter, that order gets sent to another iPad/some other that's in the kitchen.

Or they just yell the order to the kitchen.

Or something like RedRobin has where you as the waiter order whatever right from the table and you have no "waiter".

and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.

So sell them one

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.

So sell them one

(HR PoS) doesn't have a kitchen video system yet.

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

(HR PoS) doesn't have a kitchen video system yet.

Oh I thought you meant the end customer doesn't have one! Well they need to get their butts into gear.

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Is there special WiFi or regular WiFi. Gosh did I not buy the Special WiFi equipment. . .

....
"regular Wifi" was used in the sense of Business wifi that's open to everything, the AP is supposed to add a layer of protection to the POS system (ipads) so it's more or less " Segregated " from the other devices on the wifi on the other side of the ap, which also "keeps the printers on the same network as the Tablet"

is how it was explained to me