Tao Group Hospitality: How SkyTab Powers Nightlife at Scale

If you’ve ever dined at LAVO in Las Vegas or partied at Marquee in New York, your night was brought to you by Tao Group Hospitality. From upscale Italian cuisine to luxurious rooftop lounges, Tao develops, owns, and operates many of the world’s most recognized restaurant and entertainment venues.

A complex restaurant and nightlife enterprise like Tao requires a powerful payments partner that can make sense of it all. And that’s what pointed the hospitality group to SkyTab — the POS partner that now powers ordering and payments for every one of its U.S. properties.

Simplifying Payments with Convenient POS Technology

“The scale is tremendous,” said Stergio Siabanis, Head of IT at Tao Group Hospitality. Not only does Tao operate 80 branded locations in 20 different markets across the world — their locations can also serve thousands of customers in a single night. When your business is operating at such complexity and scale, your payments tech must be both powerful and seamless.

"The one thing that attracted me to Shift4 and SkyTab was the ease of use," said Siabanis. When Tao began searching for a new payments partner, their POS team leaders were amazed by the SkyTab’s operational simplicity.

Tao was able to seamlessly integrate SkyTab POS technology, including handheld POS devices and kitchen display systems, into its properties. Now, with convenient payments and ordering at their disposal, staff can focus on providing guests with an experience they’ll never forget.

Seamless Integration with Third-Party Solutions

It’s crucial that the built-in functionality that a POS system provides can meet your business needs – but it should also easily integrate with any of the existing software and services that you already use. For Tao, flexible and straightforward POS integration was a priority.

"A lot of the stuff we do today with third parties is already integrated. So the integration points are very important,” said Siabanis. “It makes things a lot easier."

Tao enhances the power of their SkyTab POS system with several integrations, including online ordering, QR code ordering and payments, and much more.

Raising a Glass to the Future of POS

From nightclubs to table-service restaurants, SkyTab is elevating every customer experience it touches for Tao. Looking forward, the hospitality enterprise has high hopes for its partnership with SkyTab and Shift4.

"I'm a huge fan of the product,” said Siabanis. “SkyTab POS does the job. It does it efficiently. And I'm looking forward to deploying it across everywhere."