Industries / Hospitality / Sports Bars & Pubs
RESTAURANTS — SPORTS BARS & PUBS MANHATTAN AND THE NY/NJ METRO
Sports Bar AV & IT for NY & NJ: any game on any screen, sharp through the rush.
On game day a sports bar is two businesses at once: a wall of screens that all have to show the right feed, and a POS running tabs as fast as the bartenders can pour. Both ride the same network, and if either drops, the room notices instantly. NYC IT Works designs and runs that whole stack across the New York and New Jersey metro: the AV-over-IP video distribution that puts any source on any screen, the POS network and PCI-segmented payments, high-density guest Wi-Fi, and 24/7 monitoring, so the screens stay on the right game and the register keeps ringing through overtime.
Any source, any screen · Through the rush · On-site across NY/NJ
THE WRONG SCREEN LOSES THE ROOM
On game day, the AV is as mission-critical as the POS.
A screen stuck on the wrong game, a feed that freezes at kickoff, or a POS that stalls with forty open tabs, and any one empties the room and it does not come back that night. We build and run the video distribution, the network and the payment path your bar depends on, so any source reaches any screen and every tab stays open through overtime, across every location you run in NY & NJ.
WHAT WE KEEP RUNNING
The three things a sports bar can’t have go dark.
THE WALL OF SCREENS
Any Source on any Screen
Dozens of TVs, a dozen games, and a manager who needs to move any feed to any screen from a tablet without recabling. We build and run the AV-over-IP matrix and control that makes that a two-tap change, not a ladder and a guess.
THE BAR POS & TABS
Tabs that Keep Pouring
Game-day volume is a rush with no reservation: dozens of open tabs, fast card swipes, split checks at the buzzer. We keep the terminals, servers and integrations behind your POS responsive when the whole room orders at once.
THE NETWORK UNDER BOTH
One Backbone, No Contention
The video matrix, the POS, the card readers and the guest Wi-Fi all ride one network. We engineer and monitor it so the streams, the payments and the guest phones never fight each other for bandwidth at kickoff.
HOW THE SCREENS WORK
Any Source to any Screen, from a Tablet behind the Bar.
AV-over-IP sends every video source across the same managed network as everything else, so routing a game to a screen is a network change, not a rewire. Add a screen, move a feed, or throw one game to the whole room in a tap.
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EVERY SOURCE, ONE RACK
Cable, satellite, streaming and your own media, consolidated and encoded once. You keep your own programming provider; we distribute the feeds you already pay for.
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A VIDEO MATRIX, NOT A REWIRE
Any source reaches any screen over the network, so the layout changes in software. Adding a screen or moving a feed never means re-cabling the room.
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CONTROL FROM THE FLOOR
Staff route feeds for multiple events, set audio zones, and mute or caption from a tablet or wall panel, with no AV tech on call for a Sunday slate.
THE PLATFORMS WE WORK ACROSS
Fluent in the POS & the AV your bar already runs.
We support the network, servers and integrations behind the major POS and AV-over-IP platforms; we don’t resell them, and we don’t sell the programming. Platform fluency means we speak your floor’s language from the first shift.
TOAST
Cloud POS
SQUARE
POS / Payments
MICROS
Simphony Oracle
SpotOn
POS
TOUCH BISTRO
iPad POS
ALOHA
NCR
ZEEVEE
AV-over-IP
WYRE STORM
AV DISTRIBUTION
SONOS
BAR AUDIO
A GENERALIST VS SPORTS-BAR-GRADE SUPPORT
A Sports Bar isn’t just a Restaurant with TVs.
The difference is a team that runs the video distribution and the POS as one system on one network, and is reachable when the game is on, not Monday.
WHAT MATTERS
GENERALIST IT / AV INSTALLER
NYC IT WORKS · SPORTS-BAR-GRADE
One team for the video matrix, the POS and the network under both
Any source to any screen from a tablet, instantly
Monitored around the clock, reachable on game day
Streams and payments on a network engineered so neither starves the other
A second internet path that keeps the streams and the card payments running when the primary line fails
One team across your NY & NJ locations, one standard
Who manages the whole stack
AV installer for TVs, someone else for IT
Awkwardly pointing a remote at multiple cable boxes in front of customers
Business hours, ticket queue
Streams buffer, tabs stall
One line, so an outage takes the screens and the register down together
Moving a game to a screen
When you can reach them
Kickoff and the buzzer
If the internet drops mid-game
More than one location
Each site on its own
The crowd never sees the matrix or the network; they just see the wrong game, or a line that stops at the register. NYC IT Works runs the video, the POS and the network under both across your NY & NJ locations, so the right game lands on the right screen and the register never stalls at kickoff.
HOW IT WORKS
From first call to a room that just runs.
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Book a 15-Minute Call
Tell us what you run: how many screens, which POS, where it hurts on game day. No commitment.
03
A written plan you keep
A plain-English plan and a fixed quote to run it, yours to act on with us or on your own.
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Free AV & Network Assessment
A senior engineer reviews your screens, sources, POS and network on-site across NY & NJ, and finds what’s fragile before Sunday does.
WHAT WE RUN FOR YOU
All the components behind the room.
The screens are one system on game day. Here’s the rest of what a bar runs, on one accountable team.
The wired and wireless backbone the video, POS and Wi-Fi all depend on.
High-density Wi-Fi covering the bar and entire space, holding up at a full house, with an isolated guest network, with a branded customer portal
The network and integrations behind Toast, Square, SpotOn and more, so tabs keep pouring.
SMART SPACES / AV
Music, Menu Screens & Ambiance
Zoned atmosphere audio, digital menu boards and promo displays; the sensory side of the room, run and secured on the same one network.
Explore Smart Spaces →
The monitoring and controls that keep guest payment data protected.
AI cameras across the dining room, bar, register and back of house; recorded on-site, flagging after-hours activity and doubling as the record when a dispute comes.
One SLA-backed help desk: fast remote response, on-site across the metro when it needs hands. Service runs nights and weekends across NY/NJ.
Tested, recoverable backups of your POS data, reservations and office systems; so a crash or a bad update never erases the night.
The register won't ring in? We're on it, remote and on-site across NY/NJ during service, working with your POS vendor and integrations behind Toast, Square, MICROS Simphony, Aloha, SpotOn and more, so orders keep firing.
Who opens the back door, the office and the liquor room; access logged, controlled and revocable the moment someone’s off the schedule.
A sports bar runs everything a restaurant does, with the video wall layered on top. See the complete picture: every system we build and run behind a bar or restaurant across NY & NJ.
PARTNER
PARTNER
BUILT ON ONE PLATFORM
We build sports bars on Ubiquiti UniFi: the venue network, PCI-segmented switching, high-density guest Wi-Fi, UniFi Protect cameras and UniFi Access, all on one managed platform and monitored around the clock on N-able. The AV-over-IP video wall, the POS, the card readers and the guest Wi-Fi all ride that same backbone, documented per location and reachable when the game is on.