EPOS systems for Bristol restaurants, takeaways and cafés

Bristol trades through its independents more than most English cities. Gloucester Road, running north from Stokes Croft through Bishopston to Horfield, is often described as the longest stretch of independent shops in Britain, and its cafés, bakeries, delis and restaurants serve a residential customer base that walks in and comes back. Stokes Croft at its southern end is bars, Caribbean and Middle Eastern kitchens and street art, trading late and loudly from Thursday to Saturday.

Clifton Village and Whiteladies Road hold the city's established restaurant trade, with the Clifton Triangle between them a student strip for the University of Bristol, so a single street can switch from booked tables to late-night takeaway inside a few hundred yards. The Harbourside, King Street and Wapping Wharf, where Cargo's shipping containers hold a dozen small restaurants and bars, take the tourists and the weekend crowd. St Nicholas Market under the Corn Exchange does one of the busiest street-food lunch trades in the country, five days a week, in a space with no room for a queue to form twice.

Easton and St Marks Road are the city's Somali, Pakistani and Caribbean kitchens, trading late and delivering across the east of the city. North Street in Bedminster and Southville has become a restaurant and café street of its own south of the river. Ashton Gate, with Bristol City and the Bears, brings match crowds to the same streets, and the summer calendar is unusually heavy: St Pauls Carnival in early July, the Harbour Festival a few weeks later and the Balloon Fiesta at Ashton Court in August each move tens of thousands of people through a different part of the city.

For a Gloucester Road café the till is about speed on the morning rush, priced oat milk and a loyalty scheme for people who visit three times a week. For a Cargo unit it is about turning a dozen covers quickly, with bookings and a kitchen the size of a van. For an Easton grill it is counter, phone and delivery platforms in one queue with halal labelling the kitchen can trust. Across the city, the regular customer base is the asset, so a system that keeps customer data in the operator's hands rather than a platform's earns its place.

Posso is based in Leicester and supplies the whole of the UK the same way: the terminal, printers, cash drawer and card reader are configured with your menu before they ship, so a Bristol venue plugs in, logs in and starts taking orders. Systems are preconfigured and shipped plug-and-play.

Support is UK-based and runs Monday to Friday, 9am–9:30pm, by phone and by remote session, with an urgent line for till-down problems outside those hours. Setup (menu build + configuration) is free; on-site installation for larger sites is priced on application. Hardware carries a two-year warranty.

Posso also works with venues in Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Keynsham, Portishead, Clevedon, Thornbury, Yate and Nailsea. For the full system, see the Posso EPOS system overview; for what it costs, the EPOS pricing page; and for the switch itself, the guide to replacing an old EPOS.