Manchester cafés and restaurants
EPOS system for Manchester cafés and restaurants
Weekend brunch in the Northern Quarter, Ancoats or Chorlton comes in rounds, and staffing turns over quickly. Café QR is a cloud POS that a new starter can pick up in a shift: the till, the kitchen display, open tabs and the floor plan, bookings and cash-up in one system on any tablet, with QR table ordering built in for the second and third round.
Runs on
Any tablet, phone or laptop
Full POS
£39 per venue, per month
Kitchen screen
New, preparing, ready
Part of a full POS
The till, the floor and the kitchen in one system.
- Counter till on any tablet, phone or laptop: cash with the change worked out, or card
- Waiter app, tabs, split bills and a live floor plan
- Kitchen screens by station and printed tickets
- Refunds, time clock and cash-up against your float
- Table QR and your own online page feed the same kitchen and takings
Where we are
We are based in Liverpool, roughly an hour from Manchester by train, so setup calls happen in UK hours and we can come over in person when a café would rather be walked through it than emailed a guide.
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Weekend brunch runs on tabs
In the Northern Quarter, Ancoats and Chorlton, weekend brunch runs at a completely different intensity from a Tuesday morning. Tables sit for an hour, guests order in rounds rather than once, and the bill is usually split at the end.
Each table keeps an open tab that staff add to from the till or the waiter app on a phone, and the floor plan shows which tables are cooking, waiting to pay or asking for the bill. Guests can add a round themselves from the QR on the table, and it goes on the same tab.
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A till a new starter learns in a shift
Manchester's café staffing turns over quickly, and a till that needs a day of training is a till that gets bypassed on a busy Saturday when the new starter is on.
The till is your own menu as buttons, with sizes, milks and extras as choices. The kitchen side is one screen with three columns: new, preparing, ready. Roles decide who can refund, discount or open the drawer, so a new starter can sell without being able to do anything you have not allowed.
- No proprietary hardware: any iPad, Android tablet or laptop
- Staff roles and manager PIN for refunds and discounts
- Time clock for shifts, with a downloadable timesheet
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Your own online ordering and customer list
Cafés in Manchester compete with delivery platforms that own the customer relationship and charge for it. On the POS plan you get your own order page for collection and delivery with no commission, and guests who opt in join a customer list that belongs to the café.
You can message those regulars about a quiet weekday or a new roast. They can unsubscribe at any time, and we do not market to them ourselves.
What the POS does
One system, every part of service
How it works
The rest of the detail
Questions
Cafés and restaurants in Manchester ask
What hardware does a Manchester café need for the POS?
A tablet, phone or laptop for the till and another for the kitchen screen. Star or Epson network printers are optional. There is no proprietary terminal to buy. It needs an internet connection, though the till keeps taking cash if it drops.
How quickly can a new starter learn the till?
Usually within a shift. The till is your own menu as buttons, the kitchen screen has three columns (new, preparing, ready), and roles stop a new starter refunding or discounting unless you allow it.
Can you set it up in person in Manchester?
Usually setup is a screen-share, but we are based in Liverpool, roughly an hour away by train, and can come over when a café would rather be walked through it.
Pricing
One price. Every table. No commission.
You pay the same each month whether guests order fifty times or five thousand. We never take a share of your orders, and guest payments go straight into your own account.
What a 5% commission per order would cost you
| Monthly table sales | 5% commission | Café QR |
|---|---|---|
| £5,000 | £250 | £9.99 |
| £10,000 | £500 | £9.99 |
| £20,000 | £1,000 | £9.99 |
Card and wallet payments go through your own Stripe account at Stripe's standard rate, paid to Stripe. We add nothing on top.
Café QR
£9.99
From, per venue, per month
- One month free
- No setup fee
- 0% platform fee
- Cancel any time
Everything included
- One month free, no card needed
- Order & Pay: the kitchen display, menu management, loyalty tools and QR ordering at the table and counter
- Runs on any phone, tablet or laptop
- Three staff logins included
- Move up to the full POS (till, card readers, tabs, floor plan, bookings and cash-up) or add online delivery when you need them
- 0% platform fee: card processing at Stripe's standard rate, paid to Stripe
- No setup fee · cancel any time
Prefer to talk it through?
Book a walkthrough or ask us anything.
Tell us about your venue and we’ll reply, usually within one working day, to plan your setup or show you round the till on a call. It’s an enquiry only: no card, no subscription and no trial started.
One-month free trial
Run your Manchester café or restaurant on Café QR.
From £9.99 per venue, per month after the trial. Cancel any time in the first month, and 0% platform fee.
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