Multi-Outlet Restaurant POS: Eliminating Saturday Billing Halts & Unifying Central Inventory
A regional casual dining chain operating 4 outlets across Sector 26 Chandigarh, Elante Mall, and Phase 3B2 Mohali was using a legacy cloud POS. During peak weekend dinner rushes, internet fluctuations caused the POS to freeze completely, resulting in 15-minute billing delays, frustrated patrons, and lost tables. Additionally, central inventory had to be manually reconciled across multiple spreadsheets every night.
Swarn Solutions built a bespoke, offline-first POS billing application powered by local SQLite databases and ESC/POS thermal printing. Waiter Android tablets submit orders directly to kitchen thermal printers over the local Wi-Fi without needing external internet. An automated background sync engine reconciles transactions with the central MySQL cloud server every 60 seconds whenever connectivity is active.