The 2007 FLORIDA RESTAURANT & LODGING SHOW was held in the beautiful town of Orlando, Florida this year. Employees from Focus POS Systems were excited to work the show with the Florida area dealers, Gulf Data Systems and Digital Retail Systems.

We were excited to report the maiden voyage of the new Focus blimp, Focus One (otherwise known as the Exxon Valdez – Hindenburg), was a huge success!

We also participated in the after-hours function at the Hard Rock Live to watch Gene Knippers from Family Sports Concepts/Beef 'O' Brady's receive this year's Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Beef O'Brady's is an outstanding Focus customer of Gulf Data Systems. Congratulations Gene!

This year’s 54th Annual Louisiana Foodservice EXPO was held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Focus was represented by Matt Kowaleski of Focus POS Systems and Matt and Russ McGuire of Gulf Hospitality Systems. The weather may have been hot from August 4-6th in New Orleans but the turnout was fantastic. See everyone next year!

Smoothie King Corporate has selected Focus POS Software as the certified software solution. Focus POS Systems has worked closely with Smoothie King over the last few months to create a software package that will help increase sales, decrease training time and provide enterprise reporting. Smoothie King was able to employ Focus' sophisticated programming ability to create a custom expert system, 'The Smoothie Advisor.' The Smoothie Advisor allows even new employees to serve up just the right type of smoothie with the proper added ingredients to satisfy the customers' nutritional needs as well as his or her taste buds. We look forward to working with Smoothie King in the years to come!

Focus POS Systems along with RCS Houston gave away a complete 2 terminal system to a lucky Smoothie King Franchisee at the annual Smoothie King Convention. What a great show for everyone!

The Southwest Foodservice Expo is always an exciting event for Focus and this year’s 70th Annual expo (and Focus POS' 15th) was no different. We traveled to Dallas this year and worked the show with a few of our Texas resellers, Restaurant Computer Solutions of Houston, ECR Systems of Dallas/Ft. Work, Capitol Cash Registers of Austin and Integrated Solutions and POS Solutions of San Antonio.

This year the Texas Rangers played the Houston Astros at Rangers Stadium. Our Dallas dealer and Houston office have a friendly rivalry so we booked a corporate suite for the game while we were in town. To the delight of the Houston office, the Astros pulled out an exciting 12-9 victory after 10 innings. Go ‘Stros!