Restaurant EPOS is priced monthly per till, and the tier that matters is the one holding table plans, course timing and kitchen printing. Published UK figures run from a free entry level to about 200 pounds a month. Two suppliers serving UK restaurants price their tiers in euros or dollars on the very pages a UK operator lands on.
The tier that runs a service
Entry tiers take orders and payment. Service needs more: a table plan the front of house can read at a glance, courses fired in order, a kitchen printer or screen that does not queue behind the receipt printer, and split bills that do not require arithmetic at the pass. Lightspeed's three tiers describe this ladder explicitly, and the price roughly doubles at each step.
Read the currency on the page
Lightspeed's UK restaurant pricing prints its tiers in euros, including the extra register. TouchBistro, the page a UK restaurant reaches from a UK search, prints a starting figure in dollars. storekit is the counter example, printing three tiers in pounds with both the rolling and the twelve month rate. A budget set from a euro figure moves with the exchange rate rather than the price list.
Registers, not sites
Most restaurant EPOS is priced per register, and bundle discounts are usually quoted for one. A restaurant with a bar till and a front of house till is buying two, and the second appears at contract stage rather than on the pricing page. Count your registers before you compare, including any handheld ordering devices the supplier licenses separately.
Questions people ask about epos system for restaurant
How much does restaurant EPOS cost per till?
Published tiers run from free to about 200 pounds a month per site or register, with the mid tier that includes kitchen routing and table management typically in the middle of that range.
Do restaurant EPOS suppliers price in pounds?
Not all of them. Lightspeed's UK restaurant pricing prints euros and TouchBistro prints dollars on the page a UK restaurant is sent to. storekit and Epos Now price in pounds.
Should the EPOS supplier provide the card terminal?
Integrated terminals save keying totals twice, which matters at the table. The trade off is that the card rate becomes part of the software contract. Ask for the rate in writing and compare it against the published shelf before accepting the bundle.