/Best Restaurant POS Systems in the UK (2026)

Flipdish connects restaurant POS with branded web and app ordering, CRM, marketing, payments, menu management and reporting.

Best for: Independent restaurants, takeaways, QSRs and growing groups that want direct ordering and store operations managed together.

Pricing: The UK Essential package starts at £119 per site per month billed annually, or £139 monthly, excluding VAT.

Flipdish ranks first because it removes more stitching work than the other systems. The package includes POS, a branded website and apps, online ordering, CRM, automated marketing, integrated payments, payroll and staff management, centralised menus and consolidated reporting. It is less compelling if a restaurant only wants a basic till, and hardware, implementation and transaction costs require a quote.

Square for Restaurants combines POS, payments, table management and optional KDS, ordering, loyalty and staff tools.

Best for: New restaurants, cafés and small independents that want transparent pricing and a low-commitment start.

Pricing: Free is £0 per month; Plus is £69 per location per month. The published in-person payment rate is 1.75%.

Square is the clearest narrow alternative to Flipdish. Its free plan covers core service and operations, while Plus adds advanced reporting, seat and floor-plan tools, 24/7 support and unlimited Square KDS devices. Online ordering, loyalty, marketing and restaurant inventory can add separate monthly costs, so a growing venue should model the full stack rather than compare headline subscriptions alone.

Toast provides restaurant-specific POS, integrated payments, reporting and optional kitchen, handheld and guest tools.

Best for: Busy full-service, fast-casual and mixed-service restaurants that want deep front- and back-of-house workflows.

Pricing: Starter begins at £80 per month and Essentials at £150 per month; hardware, implementation and payment pricing vary.

Toast's strength is restaurant-only depth. Starter includes cloud POS, reporting, payments and installation support; Essentials adds a kitchen display system and handheld POS. It is a stronger fit than a general small-business platform for complex service, but proprietary hardware, integrated payments and add-ons make a complete quote essential.

Lightspeed Restaurant runs restaurant EPOS, payments, reporting and tiered kitchen, ordering, inventory and loyalty tools on an iPad-led platform.

Best for: Restaurants and groups that value flexible iPad service, analytics and multi-location management.

Pricing: Lightspeed states that UK plans begin at £79 per month for the first terminal; additional registers and add-ons cost more.

Lightspeed suits operators that want a mature iPad workflow and room to scale into richer reporting, inventory and multi-site controls. Many features move between add-on and included status by tier, so buyers should map each register, KDS, ordering channel and integration before comparing it with a bundled platform.

Epos Now offers hospitality POS across dedicated terminals, tablets and desktops, with inventory, bookings, reporting and an app marketplace.

Best for: Independent restaurants, pubs and cafés that want hardware choice and access to many integrations.

Pricing: Epos Now advertises a complete hospitality hardware package from £299; ongoing software, payments and add-ons depend on the package.

Epos Now is flexible rather than tightly prescriptive. It supports table plans, kitchen displays, delivery and ordering integrations, ingredient-level inventory and more than 100 apps. That flexibility suits a mixed existing stack, but public pricing is less straightforward than Square's and buyers should request an itemised quote.

Oracle Simphony provides enterprise restaurant POS, KDS, labour, loyalty, payments, reporting and an open integration framework.

Best for: Large restaurant groups, stadiums, resorts and global operators with complex infrastructure requirements.

Pricing: Quote-based.

Oracle Simphony is the narrow enterprise winner. Oracle documents more than 200 integration partners, offline operation and 24/7 support, alongside configurable hardware and multi-channel kitchen workflows. That scale is valuable for complex estates but usually exceeds the needs and implementation appetite of a typical independent or small group.