/Best QR Code Ordering & Order-and-Pay Systems for UK Restaurants (2026)

me&u is the global leader in at-table ordering, used by more than 6,000 bars, pubs, and restaurants worldwide and well established in the UK. Following its merger with Mr Yum, it combines a polished, app-free scan-to-order experience with genuinely strong customer data and marketing tools, which is what lifts it above the field for high-volume venues.

Starting price: Quote-based. Setup: Fast, with POS, marketing, and operational integrations.

The guest experience is the strongest here. A diner taps me&u's NFC and QR beacon, browses a rich visual menu, and orders and pays with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card without leaving their seat or downloading anything. Group Tabs let a table run a shared bill with spend limits, tipping is built in, and dynamic upsells and cross-sells do the selling automatically, which is where the basket growth comes from. Its Flex mode is a clever touch, letting guests order via the QR while servers can also add items to the same table, so you are not forced to choose between self-service and full service. Behind the scenes, the guest data and CRM platform is a real asset for venues that want to turn one-off visits into repeat trade.

me&u is at its best in pubs, bars, competitive-socialising venues, and high-volume fast casual, where turning tables faster and capturing the extra round genuinely moves the numbers. It partners with the major POS and marketing platforms, so it slots into an existing stack rather than replacing it.

The honest drawbacks are pricing transparency and fit. Pricing is quote-based with no public rate card, so you need a sales conversation to know your cost, and its strengths in tabs, tipping, and high-volume flow are less essential for a small, service-led dining room where a simple pay-at-table tool would do. For the venues it is built for, though, it is the most complete order-and-pay product available.

Sunday built its name on the fastest bill in hospitality, and it remains the benchmark for pay-at-table. Used by more than 3,500 restaurants, it lets a guest scan a QR code, split the bill however they like, add a tip, pay, and leave a review in around ten seconds, which is a noticeably smoother end to a meal than waiting for the card machine.

Starting price: Quote-based, on a transaction-fee model. Setup: As little as seven days where Sunday integrates with your POS.

Sunday's strength is focus. For casual and upscale dining, its pay-at-table product does one thing exceptionally well: it removes the dead time at the end of service. Servers take orders as they always have, but payment stops being a bottleneck, tables turn faster, staff reclaim time, and the review prompt after payment reliably lifts Google ratings. Venues using Sunday commonly report higher tips and stronger review volume, both of which matter more than they look. It also offers an Order & Pay product for venues that want full self-service, where operators report basket sizes up by around 12% to 15% and meaningful payroll savings.

Sunday sits second here rather than first because its centre of gravity is payment rather than ordering. The pay-at-table product, its most celebrated, deliberately has no ordering functionality, which is exactly right for a served dining room but means it is not the tool for a high-volume bar that wants guests placing full orders from their phones. Pricing is quote-based on a transaction model, so confirm the effective rate against your average order value. For casual and fine-dining restaurants that want the smoothest possible payment and more reviews, it is superb.

Flipdish offers QR code ordering and payment as one channel within a full restaurant platform, which is the key difference from the specialists above. The same system also runs your POS, branded website and app, self-service kiosks, delivery integrations, and loyalty, all on shared order and customer data, so a QR order behaves exactly like every other order in your operation.

Starting software price: From €69/month (per site, billed annually; €89 if billed monthly). Transaction fees: Quote-based through Flipdish Pay.

The QR experience itself is what you expect: guests scan at the table or counter, order, and pay from their phone with no app, and Flipdish is building AI-driven upselling into that flow to lift average order value at the moment of ordering. The advantage is not the QR product in isolation, it is that it is not in isolation. Because it lives inside the platform, a guest ordering by QR feeds the same loyalty scheme, the same customer profile, and the same reporting as your app, website, kiosk, and marketplace orders, and the ticket hits the same kitchen display. For an operator who wants scan-to-order and is also thinking about a branded app, kiosks, or cutting delivery commission, that consolidation is worth more than a marginally slicker standalone flow.

Flipdish sits third here because, judged purely as a QR order-and-pay tool for a served dining room, the dedicated specialists edge it on polish and focus. Its case is strongest when QR ordering is one part of a bigger plan rather than the whole requirement. If all you want is the fastest possible pay-at-table for a fine-dining room, a specialist is a more direct fit; if you want QR ordering plus a connected operation, Flipdish is the stronger long-term choice. Software pricing is transparent, though card processing and hardware are quote-based.

StoreKit has quietly become one of the best-reviewed ordering tools in the UK, and it earns its place here on guest experience and pricing transparency. It covers QR order-and-pay, pay-at-table, digital menus, and takeaway, and it consistently draws praise for being fast, intuitive, and genuinely pleasant to use, with a category-leading value-for-money rating across more than a hundred reviews.

Starting price: Free pay-as-you-go (card transaction fee per order); storekit+ from £50/month per venue. Setup: Self-serve, with a free account to start.

StoreKit's appeal is that it removes the usual barriers. The guest flow opens instantly in the browser with no app or login, the menu carries images, modifiers, and notes, and automatic upsells and cross-sells lift the basket without staff having to ask. For pay-at-table, guests scan, tip in a tap, and are prompted for a review, which mirrors the best of the specialists. The pricing model is the clearest in the category: a free pay-as-you-go plan where you only pay a card fee per order, and a storekit+ tier from £50 per month per venue for the extra revenue features, with payouts in 48 hours. For an independent restaurant, takeaway, or small group that wants a strong QR experience without a quote-based contract, that transparency is rare and valuable.

The honest trade-offs are scale and depth. StoreKit is pitched squarely at independents and growing venues, so its CRM, tabs, and high-volume tooling are lighter than me&u's, and some operators note that transaction fees on the free plan can add up at higher turnover, which is where moving to storekit+ or negotiating matters. It is less of a fit for a large drinks-led venue that needs deep group-tab and enterprise features. For most independents, it is the best combination of experience and value here.

OrderPay is a UK mobile ordering and payment specialist built for venues where service roams beyond the dining room: pubs with beer gardens, hotels, golf courses, event spaces, and leisure sites. Guests scan a QR code to order and pay from wherever they are sitting, or pay an existing bill from their phone, without an app or a card terminal.

Starting price: Quote-based. Setup: Standalone option live in around 48 hours; also integrates with leading EPOS systems.

OrderPay's strength is location flexibility and payment convenience. It is designed for the reality that a guest might be on the ninth tee, in a hotel lounge, on a terrace, or at a table, and lets them order and pay from any of them, with click-and-collect for ordering ahead. It integrates with leading EPOS systems to sync menus and route orders into one place, or runs as a standalone solution managed on any smart device when a fast launch matters more than deep integration. Partners report strong results on tips, with the shift to phone payment lifting tipping meaningfully, and its guest base spans nationwide chains to independents. For a multi-space leisure or hospitality venue, that roaming order-and-pay model fits the operation well.

OrderPay sits fifth here on breadth and profile rather than on any weakness in its core job. It is more tightly focused on the order-and-pay and pay-at-table use case than the broader platforms, its brand presence is smaller than me&u's or Sunday's, and pricing is quote-based, so you need a conversation to size it. For pubs, hotels, and leisure venues specifically, it is a well-judged and capable fit.