Features Hospitality

When the first Hooters restaurant opened in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983, the company branded itself as “delightfully tacky, yet unrefined.” Servers in low-cut shirts and short orange skirts served basic fare like chicken wings, burgers and beer. Nearly 40 years later, those staples remain, but behind the scenes, technology infrastructure provides modern conveniences that serve […]

The clock over the Bertucci’s Italian Restaurant brick pizza oven strikes 7:30. It’s smack in the middle of the usual dinner rush and you’re standing with a handful of receipts, trying to close out table checks for servers while also accepting payment for to-go meals. At that moment the point-of-sale system decides to go kaput. […]

High-end accommodations might always have been essential for hosting high-profile companies on their retreats and conferences. But these days, there’s an additional requirement on top of the usual amenities: lots and lots of bandwidth. Even so, Fontainebleau Miami Beach might have gone above and beyond the expectations of a luxury hotel by installing a 10-gigabit […]

Imagine picking up Las Vegas and moving it to London, all while keeping the Vegas nightlife, retail and hospitality running smoothly. That’s essentially what cruise ships do every day. Now imagine keeping all of the information that flows through Vegas—personal records, credit card info, health records—safe in that metaphorical transit. Cruise ships do that, too. […]

Over the past 30 years, Edwards Technologies Inc. (ETI) has become a leading technologies firm specializing in the design-build process of cutting-edge audio and visual interactive systems as well as tech solutions for the leisure entertainment industry. Headquartered in El Segundo, California, ETI has offices in Shanghai and Germany and does business all over the […]