Fujitsu Ltd’s Fujitsu Personal Systems Inc unit in Santa Clara, California has teamed up with Sulcus Computer Corp’s Sulcus Hospitality Group Inc and Proxim Inc to take a short cut to market acceptance of pen input by targeting a market that can clearly make use of it – waiters taking diners’ orders. The three have formed a technology partnership to produce a wireless pen computer designed to automate restaurant operations. Sulcus Hospitality has designed and integrated a touch-screen, hand-held restaurant computer using Fujitsu’s Poqetpad Plus pen computer as part of its Squirrel Restaurant Management System. The computer incorporates Proxim’s Range LAN/PCMCIA wireless radio modem and Squirrel’s touch-screen order entry software. The Squirrel hand-held computer is intended to enable restaurants to improve customer service and automate operations in a variety of settings, such as poolside bars and outdoor cocktail lounges. Greenburg, Pennsylvania-based Sulcus Computer Corp also said it signed an agreement to automate the front desk operations of every Holiday Inn outside North America. The Holiday Inn unit of Bass Plc, will pay a monthly fee per room from each existing and future Holiday Inn hotel covered by the agreement for a minumum of seven years and the contract also incorporates an option for each hotel to buy addtional Sulcus products, Sulcus said.
