Reliable Connectivity + Failover
Business internet, SD-WAN, and automatic LTE/5G backup so your POS, payments, and online orders never go dark when a circuit drops.
Industry Focus
Restaurants & Food Service
Keep every location connected, every transaction flowing, and your technology and energy spend under control — with one advisor who works for you, not the carriers.
Running a restaurant means running on technology — and overpaying for it.
POS downtime is expensive
Industry studies show every hour of POS downtime during peak service can cost a quick-service restaurant roughly $1,500–$3,000 in lost revenue — yet most locations still run on a single internet circuit with no failover.
Too many carriers, too many bills
Managing voice, internet, and mobile across locations while juggling providers is a top operational headache. Bills drift up, contracts auto-renew, and nobody has time to audit them.
Energy is a silent line item
Industry figures put energy at 10%+ of a restaurant's operating expenses, with HVAC alone responsible for up to ~40% of energy use — and many operators in deregulated markets never benchmark their supply rate.
Aging copper lines quietly cost money
Legacy POTS lines for phones, fax, alarms, and elevators keep billing every month at rising rates while the service quietly degrades.
What FreeTEM helps you fix.
Modern Voice / UCaaS
Cloud phone systems with smart call routing across locations — replacing aging hardware with service that scales as you add stores.
POTS Line Replacement
Cut legacy copper-line costs for phones, fax, alarms, and elevators by moving them to modern, compliant digital replacements.
Energy & Supply Review
Benchmark your electricity supply rate in deregulated states and surface HVAC and LED efficiency opportunities across your locations.
Multi-Location Bill Audit
One advisor auditing every location's telecom and energy spend — catching billing errors, overage, and contracts quietly auto-renewing.
Cybersecurity & PCI
Protect payment data and separate guest Wi-Fi from your point-of-sale network to support PCI compliance and reduce risk.
Representative Scenario
What an audit can surface for a multi-location brand.
An illustrative scenario built from published industry figures — not a FreeTEM client result. FreeTEM doesn't yet publish a verified restaurant case study; the ranges below are industry context, not promises.
The setup: a multi-location quick-service brand — a single internet circuit per store, aging copper phone lines, and energy left unaudited in a deregulated state.
What an audit examines: failover connectivity, POTS line replacement, consolidated multi-location billing, and an energy supply benchmark.
Illustrative ranges (industry figures): consolidating fragmented multi-location support can typically save ~15–30% versus separate contracts; adding failover removes the $1,500–$3,000/hr POS-downtime exposure studies cite; benchmarking energy supply can surface overspend worth reviewing.
Your actual results depend on your locations, contracts, and current rates — which is exactly what a free audit determines.