After the owners of the
New Jersey-based restaurant group Delicious Heights learned
how much easier it was to manage their restaurant’s audio and video with the ELAN® g! Entertainment and Control
System in one restaurant, they decided to upgrade their Berkeley Heights, N.J.
flagship location from their original AMX system to ELAN g! What’s more, and because everyday counts in
the restaurant business, it was of the utmost importance that the g! system be
online right away without disrupting a single hour of business operations.
Cue the custom installation pros at Maplewood, New Jersey-based 360 Media Innovations, who worked
through the night from 1 a.m. to 10 a.m. one recent Monday morning and had the
new g! system up and running on the first day!
“It was nerve-wrecking,
but also exciting, to see if we could get the system changed over in a single
night,” said Abiose Gale, co-owner of 360 Media Innovations. “The restaurant owners needed it to be a
smooth transition so the guests wouldn’t even know anything changed. It took
some hard work and quick fingers, but we got the old AMX system out and the new
ELAN g! system installed, programmed and running in less than 10 hours. We couldn’t have done that with any other
control system.”
Owners of older control
systems in both commercial and residential locations can benefit from the long
list of third-party components that integrate with the g! system, which allows
them to keep using much of their existing equipment and lowers the overall cost
of installation. The complete
installation by 360 Media Innovations, which was performed throughout
construction of the renovation, included installation of new amplifiers, indoor
TVs, two 55” Sunbrite outdoor LCD TVs, 27 surveillance cameras, an ELAN TS10
touch screen, and the programming for every interface device.
Alex Rubinstein, co-owner of Delicious Heights, was impressed at how
much simpler it is to operate the new ELAN g! system than other control systems
he’s used. “We have 18 TVs showing 7
live sources and eight audio zones that can play five sources, so there’s the
potential for it to get complicated. But
with ELAN g! it is always clear and easy to see what is playing on each TV and
audio zone, and just as easy to change the channel or the source. When a guest asks to raise the volume or
change the channel, they’re always blown away that our managers can simply pull
out an iPhone and hit a couple buttons.
And now we can easily log in to both locations from our iPhones to check
on the restaurants when we’re home or on the road. Add that to the fact it was more affordable
than almost every other control system, and ELAN g! is the clear winner.”
The switch to ELAN g! was
coincident with an expansion of the restaurant that added a 24-seat private
dining room with two wall-mounted 37” Panasonic LCD TVs as well as room for 3
additional tables, eight feet of bar space, one POS terminal and one new Samsung
thin-bezel 37” LCD TV all in the main bar area.
The private dining room even has its own iPod dock and VGA input so
private parties can show videos on the TVs and listen to music from their own
iPods or iPhones!
According to Carl Sciarrone, the project manager for renovations at
both restaurant locations, 360 Media Innovations and ELAN g! were his only
choice for the second location. “After
working with 360 and seeing what they could do with the ELAN g! system, I knew
we’d be working together again soon.
Having the same system at both locations is ideal, because the owners
can easily monitor everything from their iPhones. I can definitely see them
integrating the lighting, security and HVAC in the future.”
The
restaurant’s ELAN g! Entertainment and Control System includes an ELAN TS10
touch screen at the main bar, iPhone and iPad control, and one point-of-sale
terminal (POS) with the g! control interface.
Each interface device provides a live video preview function that lets
the user see what is currently playing on each video source, in real time,
before sending the signal to a TV. This
makes it easy for the manager to change to the right video source the first
time, every time.
The system uses the ELAN
HC6 Controller, two ELAN S86P Multi-Zone Audio Controllers, an ELAN DT11 Tuner
and four Crown amplifiers. The media
sources include six DirecTV feeds, a Comcast Cable feed, a DVD/VCR combo, am/fm
radio, SIRIUS|XM® satellite radio, and two iPort iPod docks.
Currently, the g! system
manages the audio and video for Delicious Heights, and can easily be expanded
in the future to integrate control of the restaurant’s security, surveillance,
HVAC and lighting systems.
As
for the impact the ELAN g! Entertainment and Control System is having on his
business, Gale couldn’t have put it simpler than this: “With ELAN g! we definitely write far more orders and far
less code and that has made all the difference to the growth of our business. It’s staggering!”
About ELAN Home Systems:
Since 1990 ELAN® Home Systems has
been an industry leading manufacturer of innovative, award-winning Multi-Room
audio/video systems. ELAN systems were the first to integrate audio, video,
phones and third-party products to create a seamless, easy-to-use “whole house”
solution. ELAN systems and products are distributed through a comprehensive
channel of select dealers and distributors throughout the United States, Canada
and more than 58 countries worldwide. To learn more visit www.elanhomesystems.com.
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