CAFE & RESTAURANT EPOS SYSTEMS

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Customise your Own Cafe or Restaurant EPoS System

The above are a selection of our popular till systems for cafes and restaurants. We can configure a custom till system for your cafe or restaurant business with your choice of equipment and peripherals and one of our restaurant epos software packages. Please Contact Us with your cafe or restaurant till system requirements for expert advice and a competitive quote.

Looking for Equipment Only?

If you are only looking to purchase EPoS hardware for use with your own application software then please see our EPoS Hardware section.

Restaurants

We supply Point of Sale (POS) systems with software that are ideal for all types of restaurants. Whether you run a fine dining restaurant, a take-away or fast food operation we have a number of different systems to suit various restaurant requirements and budgets.
Our best restaurant EPoS solutions include all the components you require to setup and operate your business including receipt printer, cash drawer, cables and EPoS application software are all included. Optionally add kitchen printer, bar printer, kitchen monitor system, wireless waiter terminals, dallas keys or fingerprint reader for staff login, barcode scanner for take-away counters and Caller ID / Address Lookup for telephone orders. We can setup your food and drinks menu and provide on-site installation / training as part of our service package.

Features Available on our Restaurant EPoS Systems

Our till systems for restaurants offer a wide range of features suited to the different types of food and drink serving establishments. Please note that not all features are available on all our systems - check the specification of your intended system if you require a particular feature.

Here are some of the features available in our restaurant till systems:

Kitchen Order Printing

All our till systems can optionally have a kitchen printer attached. With a kitchen printer or bar printer, food and drinks orders can be instantly transmitted to the preparation area from the till point. This saves valuable time as staff are not walking backwards and forwards to deliver order slips, enabling them to attend to other customers and provide a faster more efficient service. It also results in less mistakes with customers orders which can occur when handwritten instructions cannot be properly read or if kitchen staff cannot hear orders which are shouted across.
You can choose from a kitchen printer with a tear bar (for manual tear-off) or an auto-cutter. Some kitchen printers are equipped with a buzzer or bell to alert kitchen staff to new orders. We normally recommend impact dot-matrix mini printers for kitchen use which print on plain paper (either 1-ply or multi-ply), as the print on thermal paper can be damaged if exposed to heat or moisture.
The kitchen printer can be connected with an RS232 Serial Cable - we recommend no more than 25m length for reliable operation. Alternatively a printer with Wireless Ethernet interface can be used.
We also support a number of other langauges for kitchen order printing fo restaurants where speciality chefs may prefer their own language. The kitchen ticket can be printed in Chinese, Urdu or some other supported language, while the rest of the system operates in English.

Kitchen Monitor System

With the kitchen monitor system orders are instantly displayed on large screen in the kitchen. A waterproof 'bump bar' attached to the system allows kitchen staff to remove completed orders from the screen once they are prepared. You may also set a time limit so orders will start flashing in red if the time limit has been exceeded.

Clerk Interrupt

With the 'clerk interrupt' feature, multiple staff members can use the same till to process multiple orders. One staff member at a time can be physically using the till, adding to or amending a customer order, while orders being processed by other staff are temporarily parked.
Staff can switch to their orders by logging in with their dallas key, fingerprint reader or with their username. Orders may also be retrieved by table number or from the bar tab list.

Wireless Waiter Terminals

Our wireless handheld waiter terminals are designed for use in busy restaurants and allow food and drink orders to be instantly transmitted to the kitchen or bar. it also helps reduce your staff and operating costs, as fewer waiting staff are required, yet maintaining a high level of customer service as your order-taking staff do not have to keep walking backwards and forwards to the kitchen or bar to pass on orders. We offer solutions using the Widefly WF43 compact handheld terminal starting from £950 per terminal inclusive of software, charger and menu programming. We also offer IPAD and IPhone based ordering solutions with our advance RP5 system.

Table Management

Table Management allows you to keep track of post-pay customer bills, either for tables. bar tabs or function rooms. You define the zones within your restaurant, for example, ground floor, terrace, balcony and so on and specify the number, size and shape of each table. The epos system allows you to allocate menu items to a table, print interim bills and final bills. More sophisticated features including splitting bills between several people on a table, transferring bills or certain bill items from one table to another table and monitoring the stage for each table in the restaurant (eg. menu, starters, main course, desserts, final bill, payment).

Menu Design

The layout of your menu on the system is very important as it determines how quickly and accurately your staff can operate. Our restaurant epos systems allow you to have hot-keys on the front screen for your most popular food and drink items, you can colour co-ordinate menu buttons (eg. cold drinks in blue, hot drinks in red etc) and you may also incorporate text, pictures or graphics on menu buttons to further speed up identification for staff.
You can define a series of hierarchical screens and pop-up windows for the different sections of your menu. For example, in a restaurant you may have your menu split into Starters, Main Courses, Desserts, Soft Drinks, Alcoholic Drinks and so on or you may have a more detailed structure such as Chicken Main Courses, Fish Main Courses, Vegetarian Starters and so on. Our restaurant epos systems will allow you to structure the on-screen menus to suit your particular requirements and you can add/change items whenever required. In addition, you may also have pop-up menus for condiments and cooking instructions.
Where you require customisation in a restaurant, for example, for pizza toppings or sandwiches, it is possible to build a screen layout to facilitate all the options. For example, white bread or brown bread, extra tomatoes, no onions, ketchup, mayonnaise, chilli sauce and so on. Cooking options such as mild, medium or hot spicy can also be programmed.

Floating Clerk

The 'floating clerk' feature is very useful on a restaurant network with multiple terminals. It allows staff to retrieve a customers bill from any till on the network, add items to the bill and to finalise the restaurant bill.

Table Reservations

Table Reservations is available on our advanced epos system to book tables, function rooms and other facilities.

Stock Control and Recipe / Ingredients Management

With stock control, you can keep track of all the food and drink items at your restaurant. You can specify minimum stock levels to prompt re-ordering. With Recipe / Ingredients Management, you can specify the portions that make up each menu item - for example, a slice of chocolate cake may be made up of 50g of flour, 30g of sugar etc. The system will deduct the items from stock, either as whole items or proportionately, as they are sold.
With stock control, you can sell items by the whole (eg. bottle, can) or you can serve measures such as pint, half-pint, single shot, double shot, glass etc and the restaurant epos system will adjust the stock levels accordingly using fractional values which have been pre-defined.

Staff Timekeeping

With the staff timekeeping module, restaurant staff are required to login and logout at the start and end of each shift and to record any breaks. This allows you to generate summary reports showing the hours worked for each person to assist in wages calculations.

Cafes

ALL TYPES OF CAFE

Whether you run a small coffee shop or tea room or a busy cafe that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, providing for eat-in and take-away orders, we have a number of different systems to suit various cafe requirements and budgets.

COMPLETE SOLUTION

Our best cafe EPoS solutions include all the components you require to setup and operate your cafe business including receipt printer, cash drawer and EPoS application software are all included. Optionally add a kitchen printer, a kitchen monitor system, dallas keys or fingerprint reader for staff login, barcode scanner for take-away counters and Caller ID / Address Lookup for telephone orders. We can setup your food and drinks menu and provide on-site installation / training as part of our service package.

CATERING, CANTEENS & CASHLESS

If you do event catering, we have EPoS Systems that let you maintain customer accounts with itemised invoices and statements. For schools, colleges, hospitals and corporate canteens we also have cashless systems that can allow purchases to be made on pre-paid accounts.

EAT IN AND TAKE-AWAY VAT VARIATIONS

On all our systems, you can specify the VAT rate for different items including hot food, cold food, eat-in and take out orders - allowing the system to automatically calculate the correct VAT for each transaction and produce accurate financial reports for your accounting.

ALL SIZES OF CAFE

We have specialist solutions for small and large cafes. These pos solutions cater for eat-in, take-away, collection and food delivery orders. You can use it for ready-made packed food or cooked to order food.

TOUCHSCREEN SIZES & WIRELESS HANDHELD TERMINALS

We have options of 12" or 15" touchscreens and lower-cost hybrid systems with a 7" touchscreen and keypad. On our Windows-based solutions, you can choose from our standard grey/black touch screens or choose from our designer range of colour co-ordinated touch screens, with matching printer cover. Handheld wireless waiter terminals are also available.