I have a problem. If I go to a swap meet , or even a particularly well stocked yard sale, I feel compelled to buy something. Especially if that something happens to be an oddball piece of electronics.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Easy to use & Simple Setup - No need for reprogramming; our restaurant pagers work straight out of the box. 7 Prompt modes: The paging system has buzzer, vibration and flash modes,and you can combine ...

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 ...