Joining COBOL & Java

Posted by Mike on Thursday, May 6, 2010

Veryant’s isCOBOL Helps Pizzeria Deliver Updated Point-Of-Sale Systems
Since its founding in 1963, Donatos Pizzeria has grown from a single restaurant in Ohio to about 200 of them across six states. Of these restaurants, about 60% are company owned, while the other 40% are franchises; however, as the chain continues to grow, more of these new restaurants will be franchised.

Donatos’ COBOL-based PoS (point of sale) solution increasingly was becoming both dated and expensive, explains Mike Born, senior systems engineer at Donatos Pizzeria (www.donatos.com). “We were looking primarily at the fact that we were getting ready to do some significant growth, and the product we were using . . . was going to be cost-prohibitive to grow out and had issues in terms of some of the new functionality that we were adding,” Born says. “The traditional system has been just a text-based thing, and we have modified that to use a touch front end by using Web services in the back end. The old COBOL didn’t help us get there, basically.” (READ MORE)

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