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SkyTab, Square and Pecan, installed and supported across Texas from our Houston base. The right choice usually turns on how fast the room turns, whether you serve outdoors, and how your bar program is taxed.
Texas rooms move. A high-turn Tex-Mex dining room or a barbecue counter processes more tickets per hour than the national average for its category, and a POS specified for average volume becomes the bottleneck at exactly the moment you cannot afford one.
The second variable is where service actually happens. Patios, trailers, drive-through windows and event trade are a much bigger share of Texas hospitality than they are up north, and they change the hardware answer before they change the software answer.
The third is the bar. If you hold a mixed beverage permit, the tax treatment has to be configured as its own class from day one. It is the single most common misconfiguration we find on Texas systems we take over, and it is not a small one to unwind.
Quick guide
An all-in-one restaurant platform with purpose-built hardware and a lifetime warranty on it. Built for full service, quick service and multi-location operations that need to report across sites.
Handhelds earn their keep in high-turn Tex-Mex and barbecue rooms where the ticket is settled at the table rather than at a register.
A flexible platform with industry-specific modes for quick service, full service, retail and appointments. Quickest to deploy and the least demanding on fixed infrastructure.
The default for trailers, pop-ups and multi-unit coffee, which is a large share of the Austin and Houston mobile trade.
An open platform built for independent restaurants: fine dining, quick service, bars, cafes and pizzerias. Payment processing stays flexible rather than tied to the platform.
Dual pricing is built in, which is the feature most Texas operators are actually calling us about in the first place.
Equipment rated for a climate-controlled dining room does not survive a trailer window in August. Most of what we specify differently in Texas comes down to heat, sun and power.
Texas specifics
Survey
We look at the room, the outdoor service areas, the network and how service actually runs before anything is quoted.
Build
Menu, modifiers, sales tax for your jurisdiction, mixed beverage classes, printer routing and permissions, all configured before hardware ships.
Install and train
Hardware goes in, staff are trained on the floor, and we stay through a live service, ideally a busy one.
First close
We work through the first close together: sales tax totals, mixed beverage totals, tips, settlement. This is where a bad configuration shows itself.
Most Texas installs we do are replacements. The concern is almost always that the last changeover cost a weekend of trade. These four things are what prevent that.
How we de-risk it
Square, in most cases. It deploys fastest, does not depend on fixed infrastructure, and handles the mobile connectivity and battery situation better than a system designed around a fixed station. The harder question is usually power, not software.
Yes, on all three, but only if it is configured as its own item class during the build. This is the most common misconfiguration we find on Texas systems we inherit, and unwinding it after the fact means reconciling every affected sale.
Yes. Houston and the surrounding metro is where we do the most on-site work, and Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin and El Paso are covered with a mix of on-site and remote install depending on the scope of the job.
With Pecan, yes, because it is open. SkyTab and Square bundle processing. If keeping your processor matters more than anything else, that decides the platform, and we will tell you that early.
Two to four weeks from signed order for a single room, and faster for a trailer or a simple counter setup. Most of the elapsed time is menu build and sign-off rather than hardware lead time.
Send us your last three statements and we will show you what this looks like for your Texas business before you commit to anything.
