When setting up a restaurant, the owners tend to pay more attention to the actual hospitality and related standards than the back end or accounting processes. For small and mid sized restaurants that may not have their own accountants, restaurant POS accounting software can be very helpful. A typical fully integrated restaurant POS accounting software system could consist of a point of sale system, a middleware system and a financial software package. New versions of restaurant accounting systems are being developed which do not need middleware systems. These new systems, which combine middleware and accounting capabilities, are directly integrated with POS systems.