The POS cannot drop at the lunch rush.
Every restaurant network fails at the same moment for the same reason. The till, the kitchen display, the card terminal and a hundred guest phones all sit on one flat network, competing for the same air. Separating them is not expensive. Finding the problem at noon on a Friday is.
Guest Wi-Fi never competes with the till.
Payments and POS
Its own segment, prioritised, and isolated from everything a customer can join. This is also the part your card processor will ask about.
Kitchen and drive-through
Display screens, headsets and timers. They need almost no bandwidth. What they cannot cope with is delay, and that is the opposite of what guest Wi-Fi needs.
Cameras
Cameras cover the till, the back door, the safe and the drive-through lane. Recorded on site, no monthly fee, and never on the same segment as payments.
Guest Wi-Fi, last
We cap it, keep it separate, and stop it seeing anything else. Guests get a good connection. It costs the business nothing when the place is busy.
Kitchens are a hostile place for signal.
- Stainless steel, walk-in coolers and tiled walls bounce signal back and soak it up in equal measure.
- Grease and heat rule out mounting spots that would be obvious anywhere else.
- The drive-through lane needs signal outdoors, through a wall, in a Calgary winter.
- How many access points you need comes from the layout and what the building is made of. That is why we plan it from drawings instead of guessing on site.
Before you ask.
Can you install between services?
Yes. That usually means overnight, or between lunch and dinner. We plan it into the schedule. You do not get a surprise charge for it.
Will this help with card compliance?
Segmenting payments away from guest Wi-Fi is the single most useful technical step, and your processor will recognise it. Compliance itself is your policies and your provider’s requirements, not something a network can grant you.
We are a franchise with a mandated POS. Does that matter?
No. We build the network around what the brand requires. We do not replace it. We work with their vendor on what it needs.
Multiple locations?
Tell us at the design stage. One console across every site is easy when we plan for it, and awkward when we add it later.