EPOS systems for Cardiff restaurants, takeaways and cafés

Cardiff's food trade is shaped by one building more than any other. The Principality Stadium sits in the middle of the city centre, and on a Six Nations Saturday or an autumn international the surrounding streets are closed to traffic and the pubs on St Mary Street, Westgate Street and Womanby Street serve seventy thousand people before and after the match. Caroline Street, known to everyone as Chippy Lane, runs between St Mary Street and the Hayes and does its best trade after the pubs close, every weekend of the year.

City Road in Roath is the takeaway street: a long run of Middle Eastern, Kurdish, Indian, Pakistani and Caribbean kitchens trading until the early hours, serving Cathays students by phone and app as much as at the counter. Albany Road and Wellfield Road, a few minutes away, are Roath's cafés, bakeries and independent restaurants, with a brunch and evening trade from a residential customer base. Cathays itself, between Cardiff University and the city centre, is the student quarter, and its takeaways and cafés follow term dates closely.

West of the river, Cowbridge Road East in Canton is a mile of Sri Lankan, Vietnamese, Indian and Turkish restaurants and takeaways beside pubs and cafés, and Pontcanna Street holds the restaurants that serve the professional crowd nearby. The castle arcades, Castle Arcade, High Street Arcade and Morgan Arcade, are where the city's independent cafés and small restaurants cluster in the centre. Cardiff Bay and Mermaid Quay take the tourist and events trade from the Wales Millennium Centre and the Senedd, with chain restaurants and waterfront bars, and Cardiff City Stadium at Leckwith brings match crowds to Canton.

Wales has its own rules for operators. The single-use plastics ban covers takeaway containers and cutlery, menus are often bilingual and customers in the Bay and the arcades expect Welsh alongside English on receipts and signage. For the till, a St Mary Street pub needs a bar screen that can key a round in seconds and a tab system that survives seventy thousand people in town. A City Road grill needs phone, counter and delivery platforms in one queue through a four-hour late peak. A Canton restaurant needs bookings and bilingual item names that print cleanly for the kitchen.

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 Cardiff 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 Newport, Penarth, Barry, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Bridgend, Cwmbran and Llantrisant. 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.