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One of Mexico's leading family-restaurant chains keeps 5,500+ IT devices running across 266 restaurants

Redsis is the single point of accountability for on-site support of every piece of IT hardware in its restaurants, wall to wall: from point-of-sale terminals to the rest of the in-store equipment, backed by preventive maintenance and a 2–8 hour on-site SLA.

Client

One of Mexico's leading family-restaurant chains

Industry

Restaurants

Location

Mexico, nationwide

Service

Wall-to-wall on-site support + preventive maintenance

Service line

Technical Services Division

The client

The client runs one of Mexico's largest and best-known family-restaurant chains, with more than five decades of history, locations in more than 20 states and over 30 million guests a year. It belongs to a large Mexican business group with retail roots, whose restaurant portfolio also includes other casual and quick-service brands.

In a family restaurant, technology sits at the heart of service. Taking the order, sending it to the kitchen, running the card and closing out the register all go through the point of sale and the equipment around it. When a terminal fails in the middle of the lunch rush, the impact shows up immediately in the line at the door, in table turns and in the day's sales.

The challenge

With hundreds of restaurants spread across the country, IT support stops being a technical question and becomes a logistics and operational-discipline problem. An operation this size requires:

  • One accountable partner: a provider that covers all of the restaurant's IT hardware, not just one device type, so no one has to coordinate multiple technicians for every incident.
  • Committed response times: measurable on-site service, designed so that no restaurant goes through an entire meal period unable to take payments.
  • Nationwide coverage: the same service quality in major metros and mid-sized cities alike.
  • Prevention, not just reaction: heading off failures in equipment that runs long shifts in hot, greasy, humid environments.
  • The whole portfolio: one service model for every restaurant brand in the group's Mexican portfolio.

Scope of service

Corrective

Wall-to-wall on-site support

In-restaurant service for point-of-sale terminals and the rest of the store's IT hardware, under a 2–8 hour on-site SLA.

Preventive

Scheduled maintenance

Planned equipment checks to get ahead of failures before they disrupt restaurant operations.

The solution

Redsis's Technical Services Division provides the group with wall-to-wall on-site support: one contract and one accountable team for all of the IT hardware in every restaurant, instead of a different provider for each type of device. The service covers the group's entire restaurant portfolio in Mexico.

The model has two tracks. Corrective support puts a technician in the restaurant within the 2–8 hour window committed in the SLA, to diagnose and fix the problem in the store. Preventive maintenance checks equipment on a schedule to get ahead of the most common failures in a demanding operating environment.

How the service works

  • Single point of contact for reporting any IT hardware issue in any restaurant.
  • Field technician network with nationwide coverage.
  • 2–8 hour on-site SLA, set to protect continuity of service to guests.
  • Scheduled preventive maintenance to reduce failures and extend equipment life.
  • Store-level support for the point of sale, the device the restaurant's revenue depends on most.

Results

266 restaurants

The group's entire restaurant portfolio in Mexico under one support model.

5,500+ devices

All of the restaurant's IT hardware, wall to wall, with one accountable partner.

2–8 hour on-site SLA

Committed in-restaurant response to get the point of sale back up as fast as possible.

  • On-site POS support
  • Wall-to-wall IT hardware
  • Preventive maintenance
  • Nationwide coverage
  • 2–8 h SLA

Why Redsis

With more than 25 years of experience and our own operations in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador and the United States, Redsis serves 200+ clients across financial services, retail and industry in Latin America. Our Technical Services Division combines a field technician network, depot and lab services, and hands-on experience integrating retail point-of-sale hardware and software, including platforms such as Toshiba ELERA, GK and Flytech.

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