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When Old Fisherman’s Grotto owner Chris Shake noticed his stockpile of customer pagers was dwindling, he thought he smelled something fishy. After a covert operation in which Monterey police officers ...

Busy restaurants often give their waiting customers a pager to let them know when their table is ready. Columbia-based Micros Systems is acquiring one of the biggest makers of those restaurant pagers.

SANTA ANA – Superior Court Judge Gary Paer was waiting with his family for their dinner reservation at BJ’s Restaurant in Laguna Hills last summer when the lights on his hand-held pager went off ...

Used to notify patrons that their table is ready, restaurant paging systems are run by a desktop transmitter. When the host or hostess pages a customer, he or she enters the code for the pager into ...

If you've dined out in the last decade (all those hipper-than-thou food trucks don't count) you're familiar with the restaurant pager. Those hockey puck-sized hunks of plastic that light up like ...

If you’ve eaten in any number of casual restaurants over the years, you’re likely to have encountered the light-up, vibrating guest pager (some are even shaped like lobsters or pizza slices to match ...

MONTEREY — Peace has returned to Fisherman’s Wharf. The civil and criminal war between competing wharf restaurateurs Sam Mercurio and Chris Shake ended Thursday with Mercurio publicly apologizing for ...

Getting buzzed at a restaurant today means less wait and confusion to get seated at a table. About two dozen eateries in South Florida and 300 nationwide now use pocket- sized pagers, which vibrate ...