Could there be a restaurant cloud platform? What would it be like? What would it do? As platforms go Salesforce.com taught us to expect more from our data, but have restaurant operators caught on yet?

1. THE CLOUD
CHALLENGE IN
THE
RESTAURANT
INDUSTRY

2. Can POS and Back-Office
Developers Enable
RESTAURANT CITIZEN
developers?

3. Who will build at least 25%
of new business
applications by 2014
Gartner Research (2011)

4. Yes, But It Will Take A
Platform…
Are We There Yet?

5. BEFORE THE CLOUD disparatesystems in order to achieve
architectural usability

6. CLOUD PLATFORMS Business applications stacked on the cloud; self
contained and user-friendly
Applications Integrations
Workflows
Web
servers
Databases
Middleware
API servers

7. CONVERGENCE
PLATFORMS
ON THE
CLOUDEnterprise Integration
Workflow engine
Mobility
Analytics
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
MAINFRAMES PC REVOLUTION
INTERNET
REVOLUTION
CLOUD
COMPUTING

8. Metadata • Visual, interpreted at runtime
Framework
• Code deployment,
conforming to framework
Instance • Deploys application
CLOUD TYPES Standardized, normal, organized… Typical…

9. WHAT Could
Platform as a Service
Do For The
RESTAURANT
INDUSTRY?

10. WHAT ABOUT A
RESTAURANT CLOUD
Pre-built architecture and easily customizable
business logic built to drive restaurant
operations – develop systems (apps) to deploy
quickly, smartly, simply, like a human would
SYSTEMS
SCALABLE
SIMPLE
A CLOUD WOULD
• Organized Development systems
• Built-in architectural scalability
• Simple design and usability commands
• Mobile and Tablet Ready
• Simple API and App Creation Tools
• Multiple data sources - push and pull
• Connected, everywhere, integrated
• Built the way I do business (no restaurant is the
same argument)

11. Concerned
Operators Won’t
Create Apps To
Drive Their
Businesses?

12. Don’t be…
ShopKeepPOS created by a restaurant owner
WhenToManagecreated by a former restaurant manager
Gene Moshel a restaurateur created the first POS system on
an Apple computer
Now it happens in the cloud…