Want to get paid by guests and customers? Obviously, yes. That’s where point-of-sale (POS) systems come in. But not all POS systems work for everyone. The restaurants, food-and-beverage (F&B), and hotels and hospitality industries specifically have POS systems that do more than just manage payments.
Your POS system includes hardware, the device you use to complete transactions, and software, where all your guest data and sales are stored.
If you want to learn more about restaurant POS systems, then you’ve come to the right place.
In this article, we’ll be looking at why you need a POS system in your restaurant, along with the top POS systems for food and beverage operations.
What is a restaurant POS system?
A restaurant point-of-sale system combines software and hardware to help restaurants and hospitality operators manage various operations.
Today, POS systems aren’t just about collecting money from guests. They’re designed to help you run your entire restaurant. They’re also easy to integrate with other software to ensure more operations are easy to manage.
Essentially, a restaurant POS system lets you collect all types of payments, such as online payments, cash, credit or debit cards, among others. In addition, they help you manage operations like server shifts, taking orders, kitchen operations, sales reporting, and more.
Different restaurant POS systems have different features. Some will include kitchen management software, while others may have reservation management or inventory management.
The size of your business, and whether it’s part of a larger F&B group or not, will determine which POS system you can use.
There are two types of POS software, that’s cloud-based or local-server-based. Most restaurants, including hotel restaurants, use cloud-based POS software because it’s more secure, more affordable, and more convenient.
Benefits of using a POS system for your restaurant
As an F&B business with a growth plan, you need a POS system that easily integrates with other restaurant management software. A POS system that helps you improve your operations and profitability.
For example, if you’re using SerVme’s reservation software, your POS system should easily integrate with it.
SerVme isn’t just restaurant reservation software, it comes with restaurant marketing automation features. SerVme’s software lets you manage your servers’ shifts, design restaurant floor plans, accept commission-free bookings, and more.
SerVme also lets you measure and analyze guest analytics to improve guest experiences and operations in your restaurant.
By combining SerVme with a POS system, you get a clear view of your guests’ previous orders, guest spending, experiences, payments, and more.
Moreover, you can combine SerVme and your POS system with other software to improve various F&B operations. For example, combining SerVme with Foodics lets you analyze your top-spending customers, frequent visitors, previous ordered items, and more.
Top POS systems for restaurants and F&B operations
Now that you’re familiar with how point-of-sale systems work and why they’re important, let’s look at the top POS systems for restaurants and F&B operators.
1. Simphony by Oracle
Oracle’s Simphony POS system is one of the most popular restaurant POS systems. It helps you manage various aspects of your food and beverage operations.
Not only does Simphony help you collect and manage payments, but also provides you with technology for many food and beverage operations. These include inventory management, menu management across locations, among others.
Simphony’s POS is popular among enterprise brands, including restaurant chains, hotels, stadiums, theme parks, among others. It also provides you with features like multi-channel kitchen displays, which help you improve kitchen operations and efficiency.
Simphony’s POS also comes with language and localization options to help you operate across locations and countries.
Payment plans:
Simphony offers restaurant owners two plans. Their Essentials plan begins at $55 a month, while their Plus plan amounts to $75.
As an Oracle-certified software, SerVme easily integrates with Simphony giving restaurants a seamless experience.
Learn more about using SerVme and Simphony here.
2. Infrasys
A favorite among global hotels, the Infrasys POS is one of the most-sought-after point-of-sale systems around the world.
This cloud-based restaurant POS “works on any hardware” and includes offline capabilities to ensure smooth operations with no disruptions.
Infrasys integrates with hundreds of integrations, including SerVme. From inventory management to accounting to table management software like SerVme, to mobile and online ordering, among many others.
Infrasys POS is also available in up to 8 languages, lets you change, design, and manage digital menus. As a hotel-favorite POS, Infrasys accepts credit cards and digital “pay-to-room,” ensuring security with digital signatures.
Their website does not indicate pricing but you can reach out to their enterprise sales team to learn more.
3. Quadranet
Quadranet describes itself as the “one-stop shop” hospitality solution. Their POS manages customer experiences from the moment guests make a booking or come to dine in for the first time.
The Quadranet POS helps you review guests’ visits, orders, and more. Inside your restaurant, Quadranet’s software helps you manage inventory, online orders, ePOS, loyalty, and more.
Quadranet works with various integrations to increase efficiency inside your restaurant, saving you time and effort.
Learn more about Quadranet’s integrations like SerVme.
4. Foodics
Saudi-based Foodics is a popular regional POS system for restaurants, coffee shops, diners, and more.
Boasting customers such as Dunkin Donuts, Cinnabon, Starbucks Coffee, among others, Foodics provides F&B operators with a comprehensive POS system.
It helps you manage operations in front-of-house and back-of-house. Foodics also provides inventory management, kitchen display screens, and customer display screens, to improve guest and customer experiences.
Payment plans
Foodics offers 3 payment plans. Pricing differs based on the country you’re operating from. Their website displays pricing in your local currency.
It’s worth mentioning that earlier in 2023, Foodics joined serVme’s list of POS integrations.
Learn more about SerVme’s integration with Foodics.
5. Syrve
Syrve is a comprehensive restaurant management point-of-sale system that supports F&B operators of all kinds and sizes.
It works with coffee shops, diners, dark kitchens, quick-service restaurants, fine dining restaurants, F&B enterprises, full-service restaurants, bars and pubs, among others.
Pricing plans
Syrve offers three pricing plans, with SyrveStart being their lowest, and starts at AED 250 ($68) per month per POS. Their SyrvePro amounts to AED 350 ($95) per month per POS, while their enterprise plan, SyrveEnterprise amounts to AED 450 ($123) per month per POS.
6. Omega
Omega is a point-of-sale system for restaurants, hotels, and retailers.
For restaurants, the Omega POS provides you with inventory management, loyalty, reservation management, accounting, and kitchen display system, among other features.
7. Tevalis
Tevalis is an electronic point-of-sale (ePOS) system that supports enterprise F&B businesses across multiple operations.
From software for handheld ordering to kitchen management to digital menus to self-serve kiosks, Tevalis’s POS easily supports your growing business.
Tevalis also integrates with many partners across industries such as reservation management (SerVme), loyalty, payments, mobile ordering, and more.
Due to the large number of solutions they provide, they have no pricing page. However, you can reach out to them via their website.
8. LingaRos
LingaRos dubs themselves a complete ‘restaurant operating system (ROS).’
LingaROS divides its offerings into several categories such as LingaPOS, for its point-of-sale system, LingaKDS, for its kitchen display system, LingaOLO for its online orders and so on.
LingaROS offers a unique POS system based on the type of F&B business you have. For example, they have a quick service POS system, coffee shop POS system, and a point-of-sale system for multi-location businesses. They even have a bubble tea POS system.
Payment plans
LingaROS’s pricing comes with three payment plans. Their Core plan is for restaurants with a maximum of 2 locations and begins at $39.99 per month. Their PRO plan stands at $69.99 per month, while their Enterprise plan begins at $109.99 per month.
Linga offers monthly and annual plans, with the latter coming at a discounted price. For example, their $39.99 a month drops to $29.99 a month if billed annually. Similarly, their Enterprise plan drops from $109.99 per month to $89.99 per month if billed annually.
9. LightSpeed
LightSpeed (K-series), is a UK-based food and beverage ePOS system. They help F&B operators create personalization, enable upselling, and more.
In terms of payments, they let restaurants split bills between diners, or across food items and dishes.
It’s worth mentioning that LightSpeed provides restaurant ePOS, along with e-commerce payments, and retail ePOS.
Payment plans
For their restaurant ePOS, LightSpeed has three payment plans, billed monthly but with an annual commitment. That’s in addition to the Enterprise option. Their Starter plan starts at EUR 69 per month, whereas their Premium plan amounts to EUR 349 per month (for the annual option).
10. Revel
Revel, or Revel Systems, offers POS software for restaurants and retailers. Their Revel Enterprise software is directed towards enterprise businesses such as large chains and groups.
As a restaurant POS system, Revel offers solutions for kitchen management, online ordering, delivery, drive-thru, guest loyalty, customer display system, and more.
Revel’s POS system lets you manage restaurant operations such as managing employees and shifts, digital menus, loyalty program integrations, and more.
It’s worth mentioning that SerVme integrates with all 10 of the abovementioned restaurant POS systems, along with
Pixel Point
ICG
ACE
Touche
Maitre’D
SerVme is constantly working on adding new POS systems to help a larger number of restaurants manage their restaurants and payments. If you’re a POS system and would like to join SerVme’s list of POS partners, email us at sales@servmeco.com
Wrapping it up
Having a restaurant POS system is essential if you want to grow your business.
If you need help managing your entire restaurant, from table and reservation management to POS, to restaurant marketing, then meet SerVme.
We’ve been helping restaurants, hotel restaurants, and F&B groups across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and more.
Learn more about SerVme and the various integrations you can use with SerVme.
Mohammed Rafy
Operations
