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Restaurant is definitely something we've thought about, but there's a lot of trick things a restaurant can need. Retail has easier requirements so that's where we started.

And I am totally aware of the POS vs. Point of Sale debate, I laugh about it too. Unfortunately it doesn't always fit, like on the home page. Everywhere else we refer to competitors as "POS" and us as "Point of Sale" :)

I've done some work with restaurant point of sales (in terms of third party tech integration). They are definitely ridiculously difficult to configure, and the APIs (if they even bother to expose one) are terrible.

Restaurants are a competitive market, and with big fish like OpenTable killing it I think it would be pretty difficult to come into there. Stick with what you're doing.

++1 for restaurant POS. A MICROS system can cost $40K for a single unit!