Café QR blog
POS and ordering guides for independent venues.
Setup walkthroughs, costs and practical decisions for cafés, restaurants, pubs and takeaways. Written by the team behind Café QR, with our own product used in examples.
Best Café POS Systems in the UK (2026): Compared
The best café POS systems in the UK for 2026, compared for independent cafés on monthly price, card fees, kitchen screens, QR ordering and contracts.
Qaiser Majeed and Iqra Javed · 19 October 2026 · 6 min read
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How to Add QR Table Ordering to Square POS (UK)
Already use Square at the counter? Learn how to add QR table ordering, kitchen screens, and waiter phones that sync directly with your Square POS from £9.99.
15 October 2026 · 5 min read
- POS & pricing
How to Take Online Orders Without Paying 30% Commission
Stop losing dish margins to delivery apps. Learn how UK cafés and takeaways launch their own 0% commission online ordering page for collection & delivery.
15 October 2026 · 6 min read
- POS & pricing
Tablet POS Systems UK: Run a Café Till on Any Device
Skip the £1,500 EPOS hardware bundle. Here is how independent UK cafés, pubs, and food trucks run a full till, kitchen screen, and waiter app on any tablet.
15 October 2026 · 4 min read
- POS & pricing
Cash Register or EPOS System: Which Does a Café Need?
A cash register is cheap and simple; an EPOS system does far more. How the two compare for a UK café, pub or takeaway, and when a cash register is still enough.
14 October 2026 · 4 min read
- POS & pricing
Does a POS System Need the Internet?
Most cloud POS systems need the internet for card payments and online orders, but keep selling offline. What works without Wi-Fi and how to plan for outages.
14 October 2026 · 2 min read
- Pakistan
FBR POS Integration for Islamabad Restaurants
Why restaurants in Islamabad deal with the FBR rather than PRA, what the 2026 POS integration order says, and the questions to ask before choosing a POS.
14 October 2026 · 2 min read
- Pakistan
How to Become a Foodpanda Partner in Pakistan
How to list your restaurant on Foodpanda in Pakistan: eligibility, the documents you need, approval time, commission, and getting orders onto your POS.
14 October 2026 · 2 min read
- Pakistan
JazzCash Merchant Account for Restaurants in Pakistan
What a JazzCash merchant account gives a restaurant, how it differs from a personal wallet, how to apply and how guests pay with JazzCash from the table.
14 October 2026 · 2 min read
- Pakistan
POS Machine Price in Pakistan 2026: A Restaurant Guide
POS machine prices in Pakistan for 2026: terminals, receipt printers and software, what a restaurant actually needs, and how to start with a tablet you own.
14 October 2026 · 3 min read
- Kitchen & operations
Pub Food Menu Ideas for a Small Kitchen
Pub food ideas that sell from a small kitchen: classics, bar snacks, Sunday roasts and specials, plus how to price dishes and keep service moving on busy days.
14 October 2026 · 3 min read
- Kitchen & operations
What Is a Ghost Kitchen? A Guide for UK Restaurants
A ghost kitchen cooks only for delivery, with no dining room. How dark kitchens work in the UK, what they cost, council rules to check, and how to run orders.
14 October 2026 · 3 min read
- Pakistan
What Is PRA? A Plain Guide for Restaurants in Punjab
What the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) means for a restaurant: sales tax on services, card and cash rates, e-invoicing, the PRA number on your bill and setup.
14 October 2026 · 3 min read
- POS & pricing
What Is an EPOS System? EPOS vs Till vs POS
EPOS stands for electronic point of sale. What an EPOS system is, how it differs from a till or POS, what it costs a UK café or pub, and what to check first.
11 October 2026 · 5 min read
- POS & pricing
How to Choose a POS System for a Small Café
A UK checklist for choosing a café POS or EPOS system: what to test on the till, card fees, hardware, contracts, your data and the questions to ask first.
11 October 2026 · 5 min read
- POS & pricing
Running Two Café Sites: What Your POS Needs
Opening a second café? What a multi-site POS needs to handle: one menu with local prices, staff per site, stock, reports by venue and what it should cost.
11 October 2026 · 4 min read
- POS & pricing
What a Pub POS Needs: Tabs, Tables and a Busy Bar
What to look for in a pub or bar POS system: fast bar sales, open tabs, table service, food sent to the kitchen, staff permissions and cashing up at night.
11 October 2026 · 5 min read
- Kitchen & operations
Drink Ordering App for Pubs: A Setup Guide
How to set up table ordering in a pub: build the drinks menu, number your tables and beer garden, send tickets to the bar and plan for last orders.
5 October 2026 · 4 min read
- QR ordering
QR Code Menu or Order-and-Pay: Which Do You Need?
A scannable QR menu shows the food. Order-and-pay takes the order too. How to choose for your café, restaurant or pub, with figures from UK surveys.
5 October 2026 · 4 min read
- Pakistan
Punjab Restaurant Sales Tax: 16% Cash vs 8% Card
Since July 2026 Punjab taxes restaurant bills at 8% by card or digital means and 16% in cash. How to show both on your menu and bill with QR ordering.
5 October 2026 · 3 min read
- Pakistan
QR Menu for Restaurants in Pakistan: How It Works
What a QR menu does for a Pakistani restaurant or café, what guests see, how they pay by Raast, JazzCash or cash, and what to check before choosing one.
5 October 2026 · 3 min read
- Pakistan
How to Take Raast Payments at Your Restaurant
Raast lets guests pay from any Pakistani bank or wallet app, straight into your account. How it works at the table and how to confirm payments safely.
5 October 2026 · 3 min read
- Kitchen & operations
Speed Up a Café Lunch Rush Without Extra Staff
Practical ways to get more orders through a café lunch rush: fixing the till bottleneck, prep, menu design and moving ordering off the counter.
30 September 2026 · 3 min read
- QR ordering
Is QR Ordering Worth It for a Small Café?
When QR ordering pays for itself in a small café, when it doesn't, what it really costs and the questions to answer before you sign up to anything.
30 September 2026 · 3 min read
- Kitchen & operations
Kitchen Screen or Printed Tickets for a Café?
The trade-offs between a kitchen display screen and printed order tickets for a small café, which suits which kitchen, and when it makes sense to use both.
30 September 2026 · 3 min read
- Kitchen & operations
QR Ordering in a Pub: 8 Things to Sort First
A practical checklist for pubs and bars adding table QR ordering: age checks, table numbers, rounds and tabs, the bar queue, last orders and your staff.
30 September 2026 · 3 min read
- QR ordering
Skip the Queue: QR Counter Ordering for Takeaways
How a single QR code by the till lets takeaway customers order and pay on their phone while they queue, and what to sort out before you put one up.
30 September 2026 · 4 min read
- Setup & compliance
Print Café Table QR Codes: Size, Paper and Stands
What size to print a café table QR code, which paper and finish to use, and how to make your table codes last through a busy service and daily wipe-downs.
30 September 2026 · 3 min read
- POS & pricing
How Much Does a Café POS System Cost in the UK?
What a café POS or EPOS system really costs in the UK: software subscriptions, card fees, hardware, commission and contracts, and how to compare quotes fairly.
4 August 2026 · 5 min read
- Setup & compliance
QR Code Menu for a Café: A Setup Checklist
A plain checklist for setting up a café QR code menu, from menu data and table codes to payments, staff workflow and testing everything before launch day.
4 August 2026 · 4 min read
- Loyalty
Café Loyalty Marketing: A UK Consent Checklist
A practical UK checklist for collecting café loyalty contacts with clear consent, and for sending email or WhatsApp offers only to guests who said yes.
4 August 2026 · 2 min read
- Setup & compliance
Online Allergen Information for Café Orders
A practical checklist for showing the 14 regulated allergens when café guests browse or order from a QR menu, and for keeping that information accurate.
4 August 2026 · 2 min read
- QR ordering
How QR Ordering Changes a Café Queue
How QR table ordering gives seated café guests a second way to order and pay from their phone, so the counter queue moves faster at busy times.
12 July 2026 · 3 min read
- QR ordering
QR Ordering vs Delivery Apps: Who Owns Customers?
Delivery apps bring volume but keep the relationship. The real trade-off for an independent café, and why owning your customer list changes the maths.
10 July 2026 · 2 min read
- Loyalty
5 Café Loyalty Ideas That Bring Regulars Back
Punch cards get lost and apps get ignored. Five loyalty ideas that work for independent cafés, and the one thing they all depend on: a customer list you own.
8 July 2026 · 2 min read