Trying to set up a Label printer for a fast food restaurant .
This thing is tricky .

It's stupidly simple to setup 2 WiFi/LAN networks, but just marginally more involved to setup a vLAN. Which I'm guessing is outside of the scope of your business.

This ^
Is probably more accurate than not, sadly.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs I just have to say, talking about PoS systems and using the PoS acronym is absolutely enthralling. Because it seems like every PoS system is actually a pos.

Oh it's a for sure Double meaning.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Is there special WiFi or regular WiFi. Gosh did I not buy the Special WiFi equipment. . .

....
"regular Wifi" was used in the sense of Business wifi that's open to everything, the AP is supposed to add a layer of protection to the POS system (ipads) so it's more or less " Segregated " from the other devices on the wifi on the other side of the ap, which also "keeps the printers on the same network as the Tablet"

is how it was explained to me

A vLAN would do this also and wouldn't require separate hardware.

I'm sure it would, I dont make this decision, + Drives more hardware sales = More money for the company - is my guess.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

(HR PoS) doesn't have a kitchen video system yet.

Oh I thought you meant the end customer doesn't have one! Well they need to get their butts into gear.

Ah, well they're a credit card processor who decided to buy out a POS company and take their product put their name on it and sell it as a pos system. so..

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Is there special WiFi or regular WiFi. Gosh did I not buy the Special WiFi equipment. . .

....
"regular Wifi" was used in the sense of Business wifi that's open to everything, the AP is supposed to add a layer of protection to the POS system (ipads) so it's more or less " Segregated " from the other devices on the wifi on the other side of the ap, which also "keeps the printers on the same network as the Tablet"

is how it was explained to me

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.

So sell them one

(HR PoS) doesn't have a kitchen video system yet.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

they have the option to email receipts, and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.
so how would the cooks know what the order was

Put in a kitchen video system. The wait staff takes the order, punches it into a tablet at the counter, that order gets sent to another iPad/some other that's in the kitchen.

Or they just yell the order to the kitchen.

Or something like RedRobin has where you as the waiter order whatever right from the table and you have no "waiter".

and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Also just what I want to continue, the practice of kitchen staff touching filthy paper orders/receipts while they prepare the food that goes into my body.

Kitchen staff doesn't touch receipts. . .
and 85 % of restaurants use kitchen Printers where they are touching "Filthy Paper orders"
hell there are some that are still using Hand written tickets - which is way less sanitary than Kitchen printers.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I get the benefit/value of having an all in one internet enabled PoS system, food trucks, carts etc all make perfect sense to need this. But why does it need an AP?

iPads come with the option of Cellular data, why complicate it further by needing separate internet provided over dedicated WiFi?

I just asked the guy who is our "Product Specialist" on the subject and he said " an Added Layer of Protection to keep it away from regular wifi .

and that came from the Provider.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

and for our network printers to work for receipts and kitchen tickets

Why does the PoS system need printers and tickets at all? Why isn't the entire thing digital?

they have the option to email receipts, and they dont have a kitchen video system yet.
so how would the cooks know what the order was