Jonny McKenzie BWWe have always been fans of any­thing the McK­en­zie broth­ers do, so we were super excited when we saw Jonny tweet­ing about a new waffle place. Sadly it turns out that not only is that waffle place in Auck­land, but he’s not even run­ning it. As it hap­pens, Jonny McK­en­zie is bow­ing out of the pub­lic­an life and his three drink­ing lounges, Cuckoo Empori­um, CGR Mer­chant & Co and Hawthorn Lounge have been sold to the highest bid­der – his broth­er and co-own­er – Justin McK­en­zie.

Wait a minute before you start boo­ing! Obvi­ously a) these places are all in safe hands with Justin and b) Jonny’s not totally leav­ing hos­pit­al­ity. In fact, he’s get­ting all Sil­ic­on Welly on us. Jonny’ been bothered for some­time about the state of point of sale sys­tems in the hos­pit­al­ity sec­tor, so much so along­side Touchtech  – he has designed his own sys­tem. It’s called Pos­boss, and it’s attrac­ted cus­tom­ers from some of the coun­try’s best cafes, bars and takeaway estab­lish­ments with Seatoun­’s Huckle & Co being an early adop­ter and hero cus­tom­er of Pos­boss.

The sale of Jonny’s hos­pit­al­ity empire will allow him to focus 100% in his new role as CEO of Pos­boss. What makes it dif­fer­ent from oth­er sys­tems? For starters, it’s cre­ated by someone who’s actu­ally worked in hos­pit­al­ity – and we hear that insider know­ledge is so import­ant that Jonny makes every­one who works for the buisi­ness do some hos­pit­al­ity train­ing so they under­stand it. We’re happy if it means drinks get into our hands that little bit faster.