Point-of-sale & payments
for the businesses on Main Street.
Restaurants, bars, liquor stores, convenience stores, and retail across Western Colorado. We install on-site, service on-site, and pick up the phone when something breaks on a Saturday night.
Same-day on-site service
For Grand Junction and most of Western Colorado, a technician you've already met is in your business the same day.
24/7 emergency phone
If you're losing sales on a Saturday night, you call Larry or John — not a chatbot, not a ticket queue, not a hold line.
Loaner equipment
Terminal dies during a rush? We swap in a loaner from the truck so the line keeps moving while we fix the original.
Five things we promise on every page of this site — because they hold on every job.
Local technicians
The team that installs your POS is the team that services it.
Processor-agnostic
Bring your own processor, or we'll shop the rate for you. You're never locked to a single payments rail.
No long-term contracts
Month-to-month software. You stay because it works, not because you're locked in.
One team, every business
Restaurant + liquor + c-store? One phone number, one service team — for every location you operate.
Fifty years on the Western Slope
Mark Olson has been doing this in Western Colorado for half a century. That continuity comes with the system.
Platforms we sell & service
One dealer. Four verticals. No template answers.
Pick the section that fits — every vertical has its own platform recommendations, hardware bundle, and feature checklist.
Full-service, fast-casual, bars, cafés
Order entry, KDS-ready hardware, tableside payments, tip handling, and shift reporting that survives a Friday night.
- Union, Clover, Winston
- Tableside & bar workflows
- Tip pool & daily close
Independents & multi-store operators
Case-break inventory, age verification, mix-and-match pricing, Colorado liquor reporting, and e-commerce hand-off when you're ready.
- KORONA, GRETA, RetailZPos
- Case & bottle inventory
- Age-prompt & ID scan
Bodega, neighborhood, fuel-adjacent
Now a first-class vertical at CRS — with lottery, EBT/eWIC, age-restricted UPCs, and scan-data reporting for Altria and R.J. Reynolds rebates.
- KORONA & partner platforms
- Lottery, EBT, age verification
- Scan-data & tobacco rebates
Specialty retail & multi-location
Inventory across SKUs, vendors, and locations — with hardware that fits a counter, not a warehouse.
- GRETA, RetailZPos, Clover
- Vendor & PO management
- Multi-location reporting
Vertical 01 — Restaurants & BarsThe system that survives Friday night.
Full-service, fast-casual, bars, breweries, cafés. We sell systems built around how a real kitchen actually fires — not a marketing demo.
- Fast order entry tuned for high-volume rushes
- Tableside ordering & pay-at-table on hand-helds
- Tip pooling, tip-out rules, and end-of-shift close
- Kitchen display & ticket routing by station
- Daily & weekly sales reports operators actually read
- Cash drawer reconciliation & over/short tracking
- Integrations with payroll, accounting, and online ordering
- Offline mode so sales don't stop if the internet does
Vertical 02 — Liquor StoresBuilt for case-breaks, bottle counts, and the ID prompt.
Independent and multi-store liquor operators across the Western Slope. The features that matter aren't on the standard POS feature list.
- Case-break: receive by case, sell by bottle, count both
- Mix-and-match six-pack & bundle pricing
- Age verification with prompted ID scan
- Wine, beer, and spirits department reporting
- Colorado liquor compliance & state reporting
- Multi-store inventory and transfer between locations
- Handheld inventory counts (no more paper sheets)
- E-commerce ready when you're ready
Vertical 03 — Convenience StoresNow a first-class vertical at CRS.
Bodegas, neighborhood markets, and fuel-adjacent c-stores. The features below are the ones national restaurant-only platforms simply don't have.
- Lottery sales workflow & daily lottery close
- EBT and eWIC payments at the register
- Age-restricted UPCs with prompt-and-scan workflow
- Tobacco & vape category reporting
- Scan-data reporting for Altria & R.J. Reynolds rebates
- Fuel-adjacent reporting where applicable
- Cigarette & high-shrink category controls
- Cash-handling & safe-drop tracking
Vertical 04 — Specialty RetailInventory you can actually trust.
Garden centers, gift, hardware, hobby, apparel, multi-location specialty. Inventory accuracy is the difference between a profit and a guess.
- SKU-level inventory across vendors and categories
- Purchase orders, receiving, and vendor cost tracking
- Multi-location stock visibility and transfers
- Matrix items for size / color / style
- Layaway, special orders, and customer accounts
- Gift-card sales & redemption
- Loyalty programs that don't require a developer
- Reports built for an owner, not a corporate analyst
Pick the business. Pick the hardware. See the range.
A starting estimate in under a minute. You'll talk to a person before anything ships — but you'll know roughly what you're looking at.
Range only. Final pricing depends on processor selection, integrations, and install scope. Winston starts at $150 / location / month.
1 · What kind of business?
2 · How many stations?
3 · Add hardware
CRS or Toast? Here's the straight answer.
Toast is a real product. If you want a cloud-first platform, self-service onboarding, and you're comfortable on Toast Payments with a multi-year contract, Toast may be the right fit — we'll tell you so. If any of the rows below sound like you, you'll do better with us.
| What matters | Colorado Retail Solutions | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| Who picks up at 7pm on a Saturday? | Larry or John — a technician you've met, often on-site within hours. | Chat, ticket queue, or phone hold. Nearest technician is not local. |
| Processing rate | Processor-agnostic. Bring your own or we'll shop it. You're never locked to one rail. | Toast Payments is the rail at roughly 2.49% + 15¢ card-present. |
| Contract | Month-to-month software. No early-termination fees. | Multi-year standard. Exit costs documented widely. |
| Verticals served | Restaurants, bars, liquor, c-store, retail — one team for every business you operate. | Restaurant-only. Your liquor store next door is on a different stack. |
| Onboarding | On-site install. We learn your menu and your workflow before opening day. | Self-service. Great if you want it; not what every operator wants. |
| Custom workflow | Legacy hardware, unusual kitchen, 400-item menu — we meet you where you are. | Standardized templates. Your workflow conforms to the platform. |
When Toast might actually be the better choice.
We won't pretend otherwise:
- You're opening your first restaurant and want to be live in 72 hours with no human help.
- You need Toast-specific products like Toast Capital loans, Toast Mail, or Toast Tables.
- You're a multi-state chain rolling out uniform tech across 20+ locations.
In those cases we'll tell you so directly. Honest is faster.
Other comparisons in progress: CRS vs. Square for Restaurants, CRS vs. SpotOn, CRS vs. Lightspeed, CRS vs. KORONA direct (we sell KORONA — sometimes a local partner is the difference; sometimes it isn't).
Ownership & Leadership.
Toast can't put a face on a hundred thousand restaurants. We can. Call any of them by name at 970-433-5039.
Mark Olson
50+ years in point-of-sale. Former owner; now in a consulting role for client continuity and legacy systems.
Larry Shelley
Longest tenure on the team. The person most likely to answer your Saturday-night call.
John Delvecchio
On-site installs, hardware swaps, and the deep diagnostic work when something is genuinely strange.
Jon Beneteau
Daily service, configuration changes, and the second pair of hands on bigger installs.
Three quick questions. One real person calls you back.
No long-form interrogation, no ten-field gauntlet. Pick your business, tell us how many locations, leave a phone number.
Prefer to talk now? Call 970-433-5039 during business hours, or for sales-critical issues, use the same number after hours.
Straight answers.
Do I have to use a specific credit card processor?
No. We are processor-agnostic. You can bring your own processor, or we will shop the rate for you and put real numbers on the table. You are never locked to a single payments rail.
What are your contract terms?
Software is month-to-month with no long-term contracts and no early-termination fees. You stay because it works, not because you're locked in.
How fast can someone get to my business if something breaks?
Same-day on-site service across most of Western Colorado during business hours. For sales-critical issues outside hours, we answer the 24/7 emergency phone. If a piece of hardware is going to take longer to fix than your next shift, we can swap in a loaner from the truck.
I run a restaurant AND a liquor store. Can you handle both?
That's exactly the kind of operator we exist for. One phone number, one service team, one install crew — across every vertical you operate.
Do you publish pricing?
Some — and we will quote the rest directly. Winston starts at $150 per location per month. Hardware bundles vary by vertical and station count; the configurator above gives a starting range, and a real quote takes about ten minutes on the phone.
What platforms do you actually carry?
Union, Clover, and Winston for restaurants and bars. KORONA, GRETA, RetailZPos, and Clover for liquor, c-store, and retail. We'll recommend the one that fits — not the one we'd rather sell.
Where do you serve?
Grand Junction and Western Colorado are the home territory. We've been doing this here since 1975.