#25 Register Templates

Register Templates was maybe the first business I started.  In 1994 I noticed that while Burger King had 10,000 locations, all the keyboard-overlays on their registers were hand-drawn.  In other words, if you buy a McDonalds, McDonalds assigns you a POS system.  As such, if they want to change the menu, they can probably just push a button in Oakbrook, Illinois, and all the buttons labeled “Mc DLT” will magically say “Arch Deluxe.”  But with most any other franchise, you have a lot of choices in building one out, including which brand of register to get.  Because of this, you have to make your own register templates.  So I approached a regional holding company and they asked me to outfit their 13 Burger Kings.  16 years later, the market still has presented no other option than I for key templates.  As such, I’m hereby reinvigorating that business with RegisterTemplates.com.

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