Sintel Systems if offering Retail & Food Service POS starting at $1295. The package includes a 15.4″ Flat Panel Touch Screen All-In-One POS System with your choice of CCS Lite Retail or CCS Lite Restaurant. You may add your choice of hardware peripherals such as receipt printers, cash drawers, customer displays, and barcode scanners.

Other options include software upgrades and additions such as back office solutions and remote access terminals solutions. If you are looking for a system which you can access through the internet, you may do so with any of the Sintel Systems POS packages.

Common Users: Kiosk POS | Coffee Shop POS | Frozen Yogurt POS

This units is great for Coffee Shops POS and Boutiques POS. The systems are a great use for Kiosks in malls and shopping centers. Kiosks are generally small and tight fit. Cash drawers have the option to be installed under counters. The touch screen pos units can be mounted using wall mounts or desk mount.

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Frozen Yogurt	Coffe Shop	Juice Bar	Clothing	Fast Food

Frozen Yogurt Shops can have it either way and either way is fairly simple although I have seen my fair share of complicated menus. Sintel Systems offers a CCS Yogurt Point of Sale System that can accommodate any type of menu with all the great features.

Traditional Frozen Yogurt Shops have menus that split into multiple categories including toppings. The customer can choose different types of products with multiple toppings. Each product is priced differently and toppings are charged by quantity. With CCS Restaurant Point of Sale Software, products with similar pricing can be grouped under the same pricing category therefore allowing changes to affect all products in the pricing category. All frozen yogurt flavors and topping types are accounted since each product identifies the ingredients used on the point of sale terminal.

More and more we are finding Frozen Yogurt Shops using the weight method of charging for their products. The weighted method creates a self service environment where customers are able to poor their own frozen yogurt, and add their own toppings as they please. Since the customer is being charged by the total quantity weight they purchase, they are welcome to take as little or as much as they desire. That includes toppings.

Each method can also provide inventory control using CCS Restaurant Point of Sale Software. Software with a combination of procedure and policy can create a suppressed shrinkage accounting. Contact a Sintel Systems for free consultation with a professional representative at (888)SINTEL-6.

What are the Major Differences?

The traditional method collects payment before creating the product, and the weighted method must first wait for the customer to create their product in order to collect payment.

The weighted method has one major item on the menu – Frozen Yogurt. The price is set at a range of 35 to 45 cents per ounce. This requires a Point of Sale Scale able to measure in ounces not pounds. The traditional method has categories and products labeled by flavor and size. Toppings are added as additional products of the order.

Which works best is for the business owner to judge. Either way you decide to take you frozen yogurt shop, Sintel Systems is here to help you process you orders as efficiently as possible. Contact Us today at (888)SINTEL-6

If you watched the channel 2 or 9 news on Monday night you would have probably seen the story called, Bandits Steal Car Used In ‘Fast And Furious’. In the news story the anchor persons are speaking of the surveillance video footage recovered by Sintel Systems.  Mellissa McCarty of Channel 2 News contacted me and within 1 hour we had the crew meet at our office showroom.  The Security Camera System had captured the act of the 2 criminals as they entered the warehouse and drove off with the $75,000 show car.

The cameraman captured the video and sent it to the studios for editing. We work with law enforcement frequently in providing surveillance video recovery.  Some DVR’s are not easily accessible as others. Older models require coding, and some are just hard to work with.  Sintel Systems is able to extract video surveillance from any DVR.  If you have recorded it, we can back it up for you.

If you have any information regarding this event please contact the Los Angeles County Police Department at (213) 485-2563.

Visit us today in our Glendale showroom for a hands on security camera experience.  We are currently displaying various types of cameras and DVRs.  We can demonstrate how different DVRs and Cameras work in different settings.  We specialize in high quality DVRs capable of capturing images used for evidence.  We also offer DVR repair services including upgrades.  You may also book on-site service calls in Los Angeles County and Orange County.  We are very active in Glendale, Burbank, Los Angeles, Arcadia, Irvine, New Port Beach, Huntington Beach, Downtown, and many more areas.

Opening on Monday May 18th, 2009, Yogurt With a Twist is the newest and coolest Frozen Yogurt Shop in Southern California.  With frozen yogurt being the new Starbucks Coffee there seems to be one on every major street, except they are all uniquely designed with their own identity, character, and taste.  Since machines make the frozen yogurt, the major difference is in the experience you take from having a cold scoop of frozen yogurt topped with peaches and strawberry syrup.  Although toppings can be a major contributor to retaining customers, the experience is almost as important.

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Yogurt With a Twist’s owner, Samhi Salty, is determined to making a statement in Studio City, California as he puts on the finishing touches getting ready for the grand opening.  Besides the furniture, lights, and music playing in the background customers demand still demand fast service.  After all who wants to wait for the frozen yogurt on a hot sunny day? I know I don’t, and with one frozen yogurt shop on every street it is easy to skip and go to the next one. “All our ingredients especially the fruit is cut fresh daily,” said Mr. Salty. “We take everything serious.  From out staff’s appearance to our stores cleanliness we are dedicated in providing the best experience in frozen yogurt today,” he added.

One factor Yogurt With a Twist expressed to Sintel Systems was the ability to process customers as efficiently as possible.  Mr. Salty understood the importance of keeping the customer happy by providing a smooth transaction process. “This is why we choose the weighted method of charging for our frozen yogurt. Plus the customer knows best what they want with their frozen yogurt, and processing the sale is very important.”

Yogurt With A Twist – Opening May 18, 2009

Sintel Systems offers a Frozen Yogurt Point of Sale System complete with Touch PC, thermal printer, cash drawer, customer display, credit card reader, scale, and software.  Customers simply hand their cups to the cashier, the cup is weight and data is transmitted from the scale to the frozen yogurt point of sale system.  The total is displayed for the customer and payment is collected.  The key is processing the customer the fastest possible. The speed of the transaction is directly related to the happiness level of the customer.

For our Southern California Point of Sale customers  we offer on-site installation and on-site training.  You can also contact me directly at marsel@sintelsystems.com if you are interested in a custom point of sale system setup.  We offer single terminal system, multi terminal systems, and multi store systems.  If you multiple locations with a headquarter, we ca set up up to monitor your location form headquarters.  We offer everything from frozen yogurt point of sale to grocery, produce, meat & deli.  We also offer retail point if sale with inventory control.  Our showroom is located in Glendale, CA on the border of Glendale and Burbank.  We provide service to Glendale, Burbank, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Orange County, New Port Beach, Irvine, and more.  Appointment for demonstrations can be schedules via email or phone at (818)400-6161.

Kiosks are everywhere.  Weather you are walking through the mall or hanging our near the promenade.  They are hard to miss and drawn in customer with everyday useful goods such as cell phone accessories, make up & jewelry, hats, purses, and much more.  The more complex Kiosks equipped with plumbing and gas can be used as coffee shops and hot dog stands.

Kiosks can have different uses around the world but difficulty to manage seems to be one attribute common along carts and kiosks. They are usually placed in walking area with exposure to all sides attracting people as they pass.  Given their size most are covered by one employee, who is in charge of sales, service and overall managerial needs of the day.

Given all the duties the employee is responsible for it leaves no room for loss prevention and security.   The most common cases of theft are omitted by groups of individuals who distract employees while accomplices do the stealing.  Other cases are driven by employees who find it easy to pocket items and sell them on the black market.

So what’s the solution?

I’m sorry to break it to you but there is no easy button for this one.  Shrinkage is actually almost never eliminated.  Given some exceptions such as jewelry, cars, and houses shrinkage is always given an allowance.  Smart companies budget for loss prevention and account for shrinkage. So what is considered acceptable shrinkage?  Depends on what you’re selling, but generally anywhere between 1 to 2 percent is OK.

A major reason in bankruptcies is uncontrollable shrinkage.  This is not because the inventory is not controllable, but rather lack of management tools to control inventory. Point of Sale & Surveillance Systems are two major management tools used to control shrinkage. When used together in combination with some policy, sales and inventory can be controlled, monitored, and adjusted properly.

Theft can occur by customers and employees. Which one hurts the pocket more? Employees can definitely cause more damage then customers can. Customers are limited to a certain degree and usually blocked by access control devised. Employees have access to areas with valuables and can always manipulate the system. Hand written invoices can always be altered and ordinary cash registers can’t explain much either.

A Point of Sale System can control the in flow and out flow of all inventory. All employee activity is tracked including time clock. A Surveillance Security Camera System can monitor all register activities and cover inventory presented to customer in the show areas.

Since inventory is controlled from the time it is order to the time it is re-ordered you always now how you’re doing.  A Surveillance works to confirm what your point of sale system reports are presenting.  If you suspect employees clocking in and out for each other, it is only a matter of time for you to confirm by reviewing security camera footage.  This also makes it necessary for your surveillance system to be of high quality.  You should never cut back quality in order to compensate for price.  It is better to install 4 high quality cameras then 8 low quality cameras in the same area.  You need your surveillance video recording not at the time of install when you pay for it, but rather when you are trying to compile evidence.

Time and time again you witness news channels report of criminal activity sometimes with surveillance video recovered by the authorities.  Have you ever wondered why the video collected is always blurry and people’s faces are always unclear.  The video surveillance world is barley entering the high-resolution color stage and recorders are becoming better and better.

Kiosk Solution

A 4 Camera surveillance system with a 4 Channel H.264 Compression DVR can cover a small kiosk on all four sides.  Accompaied by a Kiosk Point of Sale System that can be Mobile you can mamage all aspects of your business remotly.  Imagine sitting in your office and haveing video and database acess to every kiosk location.  Using Intenet and Network Solutions we are able to give you remote access to all important imformation.  Get real-time reporting on all business activity inclugin instant profit loss reports.

We are now offering DVR Repair services covering Los Angeles County & Orange County.  Our DVR Repair shop is located in Glendale, CA and open from 10am to 7pm Monday through Friday, Saturdays until 5pm.
Bring your DVR in today for same day diagnosis.  We repair Standalone & PC-Based DVRs.

We understand that for some customer, it would be difficult to bring the system to the repair shop. Some are still in use and others can’t afford to disconnect do to their dependence. So if you are unable to bring your DVR to our showroom, we will come to you. We can service any capacity system from 4 Channels to 24, 32, and 64 Channels. A technician will come to your home or business and diagnose your DVR problem. Service charges apply. If you are looking for a NEW DVR click here to see our product line. We offer the best in H.264 Compression technology and specialize in high capacity 32 Channel DVR Systems.