Is this going to be a game changer for Voyix restaurants? Will Voyix finally be able to compete with Toast?
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It looks like PF Changs is going in on Aloha Next now also.
@111 FYI the old software was windows only. Most of the terminals, and all of the handheld devices for the most part are not windows. So old-school traditional POS doesnt have much hardware support. But if your software can be accessed over a URL, and just about every OS out there has a browser preinstalled, then you'll be able to access the POS on every operating system.
@111 exactly… it will be old & cr-ppy and breakdown alot, meanwhile w/toast and any other brand designing real, innovative, software. This was designed to be a quick & desperate relaunch of old cr-p.
Lipstick on a the same pig with no service or support. And no one to sell it either.
So the plan is to sell old software that looks new? Sounds like exactly what they would do, and the software will have issues and lousy support.
Toast had to start from scratch with an empty code base. No wonder it cost them millions to do what they did. But the goal of Next is to take the original Aloha, started in in the 90s in DFW and written in C++ and .NET, and convert it to something newer like typescript, while adding even newer features, to a new code base. And AI can do it pretty easy.
No. Toast spent 750 million in direct funding and 5 plus years of R&D developing their platform/integrations along with street sales sweat equity---Before they went public.
Toast is so far ahead of NCR in that it would take a few years and at hundreds of millions both in R&D along with marketing of their "Next" trash. Looks more like a band aid so they can keep or create credit card processing revenues and show valuation for a sale.
Trying to do what Toast did, but without any real bread or anyone to cook it.
Short answer, NO!
Loss of any talent they ever had, lack of long term industry knowledge, arrogant leadership.
Recipe for failure.