Location-Based Entertainment · Case study

200+ Restaurant Locations Made to Run as One System at 99.7% Uptime

A national restaurant and entertainment brand had POS tablets behaving as 200+ islands. We built the integration layer that made every device run as one system — 99.7% uptime, menu changes in under five minutes.

200+ locations integrated
99.7% POS uptime
<5 min menu update propagation
8 wk full rollout
The challenge

What they were up against.

The brand had expanded rapidly, and each location's POS setup had been configured independently — by different vendors, at different times, with different integration patterns. A menu price change required manual updates at each location. Corporate couldn't see real-time sales. The loyalty program worked at some locations and not others. Every week, something broke. We were brought in to build the integration architecture that should have existed from day one — a centralized platform that made all 200+ POS devices behave as one system.

  • Each location's POS configured independently, by different vendors at different times
  • A menu price change meant manual updates at every location
  • No real-time visibility into sales at corporate
  • Loyalty worked at some locations and not others — and something broke every week
Our approach

How we did it.

01

Integration audit

Cataloged every POS terminal, integration point, and data flow across all locations — documenting what worked, what was broken, and what was missing.

02

Hub architecture

Designed a centralized integration hub that could receive configuration pushes from corporate and return transaction data in real time — regardless of POS model or software version.

03

Rollout tooling

Built deployment tooling that could push configuration updates to any subset of locations simultaneously — with rollback and per-device confirmation.

04

Monitoring & alerting

Real-time POS health monitoring with automatic alerting when any device went offline, failed a sync, or reported anomalous transaction patterns.

The outcome

What changed.

Eight weeks after the engagement started, all 200+ locations were on the unified integration platform. Menu changes that previously took days now propagate in under five minutes. Corporate has real-time sales visibility across every location, the loyalty program works everywhere, and when something breaks, the monitoring system catches it before the location manager even notices. Delivered as a Value Sprint and run through AI Office.

In terms of deliveries, our engagements were successful. Customers leveraged the features Frogslayer built, we continued to win business with those brands, and we expanded to other brands using the tools.
— Dave Meier, Sr. Director of Product Development, NCR
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