In fact, my loose calculation was that at least 80% of the restaurants I went to had either Revel, Square, ShopKeep, or Lavu in place. IPad POS systems are everywhere on an island where the Internet is spotty, the air is humid, and where it rains a lot.
That photo in this post? I took it myself in a land called Hanalei at Chicken in a Barrel (who make life-changing fish burritos, by the way), it’s not a promotional photo. One thing I kept noticing, over and over and over, was how rampant iPad-based POS systems were. While there, I ate at a wide assortment of restaurants. Very recently, I enjoyed a week in Kauai, Hawaii, on vacation. Editor’s Note: I approached Brandon Fluharty, whom I’ve known dating back to his time at Datum, to write this article for NextRestaurants, and here’s why.