Solutions
FooodPos for the way your restaurant works
A pub, a bubble tea shop and a dining hall for hundreds each ask something different of their POS. Find yours below: the problems you deal with every day, the parts of FooodPos that take care of them, and the hardware to set it up with.
Every line on this page describes what the product does today. Most restaurants are two or three of these at once, and one system covers them all.
Pubs and bistros
Long nights, open tables, and a bottle kept for next time
Your regulars come back for the atmosphere. The POS should keep up with the rounds and remember the bottle they left behind.
What you need
- Keep the bottles guests leave behind, and find the right one weeks later.
- Tables that stay open all evening, with round after round on the same bill.
- Guests who want another drink while your staff are busy at the bar.
- Happy hours and offers that nobody has to work out by hand.
How FooodPos helps
- Liquor custody keeps a guest's bottle under their name. They take a slip with a QR code, and on the next visit you find the bottle by the slip, their phone number or their name.
- Hand the bottle back whole, or pour part now and keep the rest. Each outlet sets how many days a bottle is kept, and kept bottles never change your stock value.
- A table keeps one bill all night. Print it as often as you like: printing does not close it, so the next round goes on the same bill.
- Each table can show how long its party has been seated, and turn the colour you choose once they pass the minutes you set.
- Guests order the next round from the QR code on their table, and can play a game for a prize once their order is sent.
- Happy hour can apply by itself on the days and hours you choose, and each drink is priced by the time it was rung.
- A regular can put the bill on their own account with Pay later, and settle it on another visit.
Hardware that fits
An Android tablet or a Windows PC at the bar
Your main POS, for bills, payments and the bottles you keep.
Android phones for the floor
Waiter devices take orders at the table and send them on. The bill is paid at the bar.
A thermal receipt printer
For bills, receipts, bottle slips and table QR codes.
A kitchen printer
Food orders reach the kitchen the moment they are fired.
A cash drawer
Wired to the receipt printer, and opened when cash is taken.
Read more on the features page:
Restaurants that keep stock
Know what is on your shelves, with no second system to feed
Sales, deliveries and stock takes in one place, so every number on the shelf can be explained.
What you need
- Know what is on the shelf without counting it every day.
- Deliveries and wastage written down when they happen, not at the end of the month.
- Stock takes that put the books right without wiping out what nobody counted.
- Each outlet with its own store room, and one view of them all.
How FooodPos helps
- Every paid bill takes its items off stock, at the outlet that sold them.
- Record deliveries, wastage and adjustments in the back office, or key a delivery or wastage in at the POS while it is online.
- Count a shelf on a count sheet. A blank box means not counted, never zero, and only the difference is posted.
- A stock card for every item, showing each movement and the balance after it.
- A store room list of what is on hand, with anything below its reorder level at the top.
- Reports on purchases, consumption, wastage, counts and balance, for one outlet or for all of them.
- When something runs out, mark it sold out at that outlet. It greys out at the POS, and guests can't order it from the QR menu.
Hardware that fits
A Windows PC or an Android tablet at the counter
It sells, and every paid bill takes its items off stock.
A computer with a web browser
For deliveries, counts and stock reports, at the restaurant or anywhere else.
A barcode scanner
For packaged goods, scanned straight onto the bill.
A thermal receipt printer
For bills and receipts.
Read more on the features page:
Ingredient-led kitchens
Every plate draws down exactly what went into it
Recipes, costs and add-ons that use real ingredients, so you can see where the food goes, right down to the extra egg.
What you need
- Know what each dish really uses, extras included.
- See what your stock is worth, and what the kitchen has used.
- Catch waste before it eats into the margin.
- Charge the right price for food sold by weight.
How FooodPos helps
- Give a dish a recipe, and its ingredients come off stock when the bill is paid.
- Let an add-on, such as extra cheese or a fried egg, take its own ingredient off stock.
- A cost price on every item, and the value of your stock at cost on the Dashboard.
- Record what was spoiled or dropped as wastage, and read it back in the wastage report.
- A consumption report of what the kitchen has used.
- Sell by weight, with the weight read from an ACLAS OS2 scale or typed in.
Hardware that fits
A Windows PC or an Android tablet at the counter
Every paid bill takes its recipes off stock.
A kitchen printer for each station
Slips carry each dish with its add-ons and remarks, so what is cooked is what is counted.
The ACLAS OS2 scale
For food sold by weight, on a USB or serial port.
A computer with a web browser
To set recipes and costs, and to read the stock reports.
Read more on the features page:
Fast food
Ring it up, take payment, call the number
No tables and no waiting about: a counter built for speed, and a kitchen that keeps pace with it.
What you need
- A till that is ready for the next customer the moment one has paid.
- Customers who know their number, and can see when their food is ready.
- A kitchen that keeps up through the lunch rush.
- More orders taken without more staff at the counter.
How FooodPos helps
- Set a POS to Sales screen only. It opens on a new counter bill with no table plan, and starts the next one as soon as a bill is paid, with or without the internet.
- A running queue number is given when the bill is paid. It prints large on the receipt and the kitchen slip, and shows on the kitchen display. You choose its prefix, its range and whether it starts again each day.
- An Order board on a big screen shows each order under Preparing, then under Ready with a chime, beside your logo and a photo.
- A self-order kiosk: guests choose dine in or take away, order from your menu with its pictures, and take their order number to the counter to pay.
- A kitchen display for each station, and an expeditor screen that brings the whole order together before it goes out.
- Set meals at a fixed price or as the sum of their parts, and promotions such as buy X get Y.
- The Dashboard shows your sales hour by hour, so you can see when the rush comes.
Hardware that fits
A Windows PC or an Android tablet at the counter
On Sales screen only, with the queue number switched on.
A thermal receipt printer
Prints the queue number large on every receipt.
A kitchen printer or a kitchen display
Paper, a screen, or a screen with paper behind it.
A big screen for the Order board
A Windows PC or an Android device on a TV or a large monitor.
A self-order kiosk
A Windows or Android touch screen in Kiosk mode. It takes orders; payment is at the counter.
A cash drawer
Wired to the receipt printer.
Read more on the features page:
Food trucks
A complete POS that fits on the counter of a truck
Park, open the hatch and start selling, wherever the signal happens to be.
What you need
- Very little room on the counter.
- A signal that comes and goes with every new pitch.
- A quick line of orders, each customer called by number.
- A menu and prices that change with the event, set up before you arrive.
How FooodPos helps
- Runs on an Android tablet or phone, as a main POS in its own right.
- Keeps taking orders and payments when the signal drops. Each one is saved on the device first and sent when the connection returns.
- Sales screen only, with a queue number on every receipt and kitchen slip.
- Change the menu and prices in the back office, from wherever you are. The POS picks them up the next time it is online.
- Open and close the shift, count the cash and print the Z reading at the truck, signal or not.
- Every payment is recorded by its method, and the shift tells you plainly whether the drawer is short or over.
Hardware that fits
A Sunmi with its printer built in
Screen and printer in one device, so the counter stays clear.
Or an Android tablet or phone
The whole POS, in very little space, sideways or upright.
With a small thermal receipt printer
On USB or the network, with 58mm or 80mm paper.
A cash drawer, if you take cash
Wired to the receipt printer.
Read more on the features page:
Mala tang and weigh-and-pay stalls
Weigh the bowl, and the price is right every time
Guests fill their own bowl. You weigh it, add the soup and the spice, and send it to the kitchen.
What you need
- Weigh every bowl quickly, with no figures typed by hand.
- Soup bases, spice levels and extras chosen at the counter.
- Know whose bowl is whose when it comes out of the kitchen.
- Keep serving if the scale stops answering.
How FooodPos helps
- Mark the bowl as sold by weight. Its quantity on the bill is the weight, in kilograms to three decimal places or in whole grams.
- Press Read scale and the POS waits for the weight to settle, then fills it in for the cashier to confirm. It can ask for the weight as soon as the bowl is picked.
- Works with the ACLAS OS2 scale, on Windows and on Android.
- Soup bases and spice levels as modifiers, with a minimum and a maximum, so every bowl is ordered complete and the kitchen slip says exactly how to make it.
- A queue number on every receipt and kitchen slip, so each bowl finds its owner.
- If the scale is unplugged or not answering, the POS says so, and the cashier types the weight instead.
Hardware that fits
A Windows PC or an Android tablet at the counter
With the scale plugged into it.
The ACLAS OS2 scale
On a USB or serial port of a Windows PC, or the USB port of an Android device.
A thermal receipt printer
Receipts with the queue number large.
A kitchen printer
The bowl's slip, with its soup, its spice level and its queue number.
A second screen for guests
The guest sees their bowl on the bill, the total and their change.
Read more on the features page:
Large, busy restaurants
Many hands on the floor, and one smooth service
Hundreds of guests, several counters and a kitchen with many stations, all working from one set of bills.
What you need
- Orders taken anywhere in the room, and paid at any counter.
- A service that carries on when the internet does not.
- A queue at the door on busy nights, and bookings for the rest.
- A kitchen of many stations, each getting only its own dishes.
How FooodPos helps
- Main POS, sub POS and waiter phones share every bill: an order taken on a waiter's phone is paid at any counter.
- Set your main POS to On your own network only, and every sub POS and waiter phone works through it. If the internet drops, orders, payments and kitchen slips carry on across the room.
- Guests order from the QR code on their table. Accept each order, or let them go straight to the kitchen.
- Waiting groups join a queue from their own phone, see their place and can pre-order. The cashier seats them from the POS.
- Bookings taken at the POS or in the back office are each given the smallest free table that fits, with a deposit if you want one.
- Each dish goes to its own station, on a kitchen printer or a kitchen display.
- An Order board on a TV shows each guest their number under Preparing, then Ready, and calls it out loud; the counter presses Collected when the food is taken.
- Split a bill by tapping the items that move, and move a party's bill when they change tables.
Hardware that fits
A Windows PC as the main POS
At the main counter. The rest of the room can work through it.
Android tablets as sub POS terminals
More counters that take orders and payment.
Android phones for the waiters
Orders taken at the table. No payment on the phone.
A kitchen printer or display for each station
Paper, screens, or both.
A receipt printer at each counter
Each POS keeps its own, so one counter's bill never comes out at another.
A cash drawer at each counter that takes cash
Wired to its receipt printer.
Read more on the features page:
Kitchens that run on screens
Replace the paper rail with screens your cooks can trust
Each station sees its own dishes, the pass sees the whole order, and the guests see when it is ready.
What you need
- No more lost, smudged or unreadable slips.
- Each cook sees only the dishes they make.
- The pass knows when a whole order is ready to go out.
- A fallback for the moment a screen goes quiet.
How FooodPos helps
- A tablet or a PC as the kitchen display at each station, showing only that station's dishes. Cooks tap a dish ready, mark the ticket done and recall a recent one.
- An expeditor screen at the pass brings each order together from every station.
- An Order board shows guests their order under Preparing, and under Ready once the kitchen has finished it.
- Link a kitchen display to your main POS, and it takes its tickets over your own network, with no internet needed in the kitchen.
- Choose Screen first, paper if the screen is down. If a station's display has not checked in for 30 seconds, its tickets print on the station's printer instead.
- Tick Print a slip when bumped, and a station prints a Ready slip when its ticket is done, or a runner slip when the expeditor serves the order.
- The back office lists any ticket a screen never showed, with the bill it belongs to.
Hardware that fits
Android tablets or Windows PCs as kitchen displays
One for each station, and one for the expeditor at the pass.
A kitchen printer at each station
For paper behind the screen, and for slips when a ticket is bumped.
A big screen for the Order board
A Windows PC or an Android device on a TV or a large monitor.
A main POS
A Windows PC or an Android tablet, which can feed the displays over your own network.
Read more on the features page:
Bubble tea and drink shops
Every cup made right, and handed to the right customer
Sugar, ice and toppings on every drink, a queue at the counter, and a label on each cup.
What you need
- Every drink made a little differently: less sugar, no ice, extra pearls.
- A long queue at the counter after school and after work.
- Cups that reach the right customer, with nothing written on them by hand.
- Regulars to reward, and offers that bring them back.
How FooodPos helps
- Sugar level, ice level and toppings as modifiers, each with a minimum and a maximum, so every drink is ordered complete. A topping can take its own ingredient, such as pearls, off stock.
- Sales screen only, with a queue number on every receipt, and an Order board that shows each number under Preparing and then Ready.
- With a label printer that takes TSPL, the drinks station can print a label for every cup: three milk teas print three labels, 1/3 to 3/3, each with the drink and its choices, laid out the way you design it. Label printing is new, so check your printer with us before you buy one.
- A self-order kiosk at the counter, and a pick-up QR code guests scan to order from their own phone. Both are paid at the counter.
- Promotions that work themselves out: buy X get Y, a happy hour, or money off a bill above an amount.
- With Member, linked to the FooodPos Member Portal, the cashier finds a member by phone, name or card, and they earn points on what they pay. The receipt prints the points earned. Member needs the internet.
- A second screen facing the guest shows their order and the total, with your own pictures or short videos of new drinks as adverts.
Hardware that fits
An Android tablet or a Windows PC at the counter
On Sales screen only, with the queue number switched on.
A thermal receipt printer
Receipts with the queue number large.
A label printer that takes TSPL
For a label on every cup. Ask us about your model first.
A second screen for guests
The order, the total, and your own adverts.
A self-order kiosk
A Windows or Android touch screen in Kiosk mode.
A screen for the Order board
Preparing and Ready, in big numbers.
Read more on the features page:
Start with the devices you already have
Every set above can be Windows, Android, or both together. Each POS is set up on its own, so you can begin with the PCs and tablets you own and add either kind later.
Tell us how your restaurant works
Describe your service, your kitchen and the devices you already have, and we'll suggest the set-up that fits.