Case Study: Pausa Bar & Cookery achieves extended video retention and improved site visibility with Verkada

Thriving Restaurant Deploys Cloud Based Cameras to Increase Storage Capacity and Improve Site Visibility

Pausa Bar & Cookery, a Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurant in San Mateo co‑owned by Steve Ugur and Andrea Giuliani, needed a reliable video security solution to maintain food, service and atmosphere standards. Their legacy IP cameras fed a local DVR that overwrote footage after three days, made finding incidents painfully slow, and carried hidden installation and management costs — so they turned to Verkada’s cloud‑based camera and archiving platform.

Verkada deployed cameras with solid‑state recording, distributed on‑device storage (minimum 30 days) and cloud archiving plus smart time/date/object/motion search and motion‑grid thumbnails. The result: footage is no longer lost after three days and critical clips can be stored indefinitely, incidents are located “in a matter of moments” instead of frame‑by‑frame review, and upfront pricing with automatic updates and U.S. support reduced management overhead — delivering immediate, measurable improvements to Pausa’s operations.

Pausa Bar & Cookery

Steve Ugur

Co-Owner