Case Study: Hot Dog on a Stick achieves simplified food-court operations and increased efficiency with Maitre'D

HDOS uses Maitre’D restaurant management software to simplify its operations for a food-court setting

Hot Dog on a Stick (HDOS), a 62‑year‑old California chain with 108 mall-based stores across 13 western states and $45M in annual revenue, needed a simple, fast-to-learn POS for its busy, youth-staffed food‑court operations when it moved to its first computer‑based system.

HDOS implemented Posera’s Maitre’D POS (first installed in March 2004); its open, customizable architecture reduced register complexity and training time, consolidated sales and inventory data to corporate, and integrated with Great Plains, ADP and eTime. The result: improved in-store efficiency, automated payroll and labor compliance, better ordering and inventory control, and timely multi‑unit reporting that empowers regional managers and headquarters.

Hot Dog on a Stick

Bruce Kowallis

Director of Information Technology