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Lavu POS, originally known as POSLavu, is a cloud-based point of sale system with integrated business management software, initially developed for the iPad/iPod/iPhone platform by software developers Lavu Inc. in 2010.

Lavu POS was initially developed to combine cloud computing, wireless technologies, and a sleek touchscreen interface into a point of sale system built as a native app for the yet-to-be-released iPad. Lavu was the very first full-featured point of sale for restaurants available on the Apple App Store. The product was originally developed for fine dining restaurants, nightclubs, and quick serve business types such as coffee shops, but has become popular with more diverse and unique business models such as mobile food trucks and outdoor cafes due to its flexibility and peripherals.

Lavu in the Media
Lavu POS was featured on 2 seasons of Fox TV's Kitchen Nightmares  starring celebrity chef  Gordon Ramsay. Kitchen Nightmares is an American reality television series broadcast on the Fox network, in which chef Ramsay is invited by the owners to spend a week with a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business. The iPad POS was an integral component to the restaurant makeover, generally added to improve communication, organization, and reporting to what were previously chaotic environments.

In 2010-11, during the initial period of hype around the first generation iPad, a book was published which studied the potential of iPad as a valid business tool, and featured Lavu POS as an option for the hospitality business. "It didn't take long for developers to look at the screen and say, "I could make a cash register out of that!" And so they did. Although this software genre is still developing, There are some early leaders. POSLavu is a full-featured point of sale system (POS) from which you could easily run a retail business or restaurant."

POSLavu was featured as the Wall Street Journal's App of the Week in *date*

The freedom allowed by Lavu POS regarding hardware options, merchant providers, and contract length have set them apart from traditional POS and made the product a good fit for businesses with unique requirements.

Users as diverse as *stadium* and the Sundance Film Festival have Lavu POS is a product of software developers Lavu Inc., based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They have a user-base spanning over 80 countries on 6 continents with a network of Certified Lavu Specialists in over 30 countries worldwide. Lavu Inc., founded and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with Certified Lavu Specialists in over 80 countries worldwide.

links: http://www.businessinsider.com/app-of-the-week-poslavu-2011-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Ramsay

sources: "FOX Broadcasting Company – Kitchen Nightmares TV Show – Kitchen Nightmares TV Series – Kitchen Nightmares Episode Guide". Fox.com. Retrieved October 13, 2012.

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- Apple products also enable the system to be wireless, allowing for mobile ordering and an expansion of the traditional role of a point-of-sale system. Instead of just taking orders and ringing them up, the app can also keep track of seats, split checks, track employee time, and manage table layout for the restaurant.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/app-of-the-week-poslavu-2011-8#ixzz1hwpmGyky - "It didn't take long for developers to look at the screen and say, "I could make a cash register out of that!" And so they did. Although this software genre is still developing, There are some early leaders. POSLavu is a full-featured point of sale system (POS) from which you could easily run a retail business or restaurant."

book - iPad at work by David Sparks http://books.google.com/books?id=GdkyaMrMuaIC&pg=PT339&dq=poslavu&num=3&client=internal-uds&cd=1&source=uds#v=onepage&q=poslavu&f=false