EPOS systems for Leicester restaurants, takeaways and cafés
What a hospitality EPOS needs to do in Leicester, Leicestershire, what it costs, and how a Leicester venue goes from quote to first order without an engineer on site.
- Written for the Leicester food-and-drink trade
- Till, kitchen display, kiosks and online ordering from £499 + VAT
- Shipped preconfigured, UK support Monday to Friday, 9am–9:30pm
Written by the Posso team in Leicester · Reviewed by Paul Robinson, Managing Director · Last reviewed
Short answer
A Leicester restaurant, takeaway, café or pub can run its till, kitchen screens, self-order kiosks, own-website ordering and card payments on one Posso system from £499 + VAT, with software from £25 + VAT a month. Hardware arrives preconfigured with your menu loaded, so there is no installation visit to wait for, and UK support runs Monday to Friday, 9am–9:30pm. Setup (menu build + configuration) is free; on-site installation for larger sites is priced on application.
Key takeaways
- Posso supplies Leicester venues nationwide from Leicester: hardware ships preconfigured and plug-and-play.
- One system covers counter, phone, table, kiosk, website and delivery-platform orders in one kitchen queue.
- Prices are published: £499 + VAT for the till, £399 + VAT per kitchen screen, kiosks from £699 + VAT.
- Support is UK-based and remote, Monday to Friday, 9am–9:30pm; on-site installation for larger sites is priced on application.
Takeaway: The right EPOS for a Leicester venue is the one that handles your busiest hour, not your quietest, and Posso prices it the same in Leicester as everywhere else in the UK.
Leicester hospitality
The food-and-drink trade in Leicester
Leicester is Posso's home city, and its food trade starts on Belgrave Road. The Golden Mile runs from the flyover out towards Belgrave, lined with Gujarati vegetarian restaurants, sweet centres, paan shops and jewellers, and it peaks in the autumn: the Diwali lights switch-on and Diwali night on Belgrave Road draw crowds that are among the largest outside India, and the weeks of Navratri before them keep the sweet centres and chaat counters working late. A Golden Mile mithai shop sells by the box and by weight, takes pre-orders for weddings and festivals, and serves counter, phone and delivery customers at the same time.
The rest of the city is just as particular. Narborough Road has been studied as one of the most diverse shopping streets in Britain, with Turkish, Kurdish, Polish, Somali and Caribbean kitchens in a half-mile stretch. Evington Road and Green Lane Road carry the Punjabi and Pakistani grill and dessert trade into the small hours. Queens Road in Clarendon Park is the independent café and restaurant street for the south of the city, and Leicester Market, one of the largest outdoor covered markets in Europe, anchors daytime footfall in the centre.
The Cultural Quarter around Curve theatre and the Phoenix cinema, together with the Lanes between Silver Street and Loseby Lane, is where city-centre restaurants and bars cluster, feeding pre-theatre tables and weekend drinkers. Two universities sit a few minutes from each other: De Montfort along Mill Lane and the University of Leicester off London Road, and the takeaways on Welford Road, Braunstone Gate and London Road follow their terms. The King Power Stadium and Mattioli Woods Welford Road are a short walk apart, so a rugby and football fixture on the same weekend turns Aylestone Road and Welford Road into a queue twice over.
For the till, that means pre-orders with deposits for festival and wedding trade; items priced by weight and by box; menus with vegetarian, Jain and allergen labelling that staff can answer from the screen; and a kitchen queue that merges counter, phone and delivery orders without re-keying. In the Cultural Quarter it means bookings and courses; near the stadiums it means speed for two hours and nothing else.
Where Leicester venues cluster
Different parts of Leicester trade in different ways, and the till has to match the pattern.
Belgrave Road, the Golden Mile
Gujarati vegetarian restaurants, sweet centres and chaat counters from the flyover to Belgrave. Diwali and Navratri drive the year, items sell by weight and by box, and festival pre-orders with deposits sit alongside counter and phone trade.
Cultural Quarter and the Lanes
Restaurants and bars around Curve, the Phoenix, Silver Street and Loseby Lane. Pre-theatre tables that must turn by half past seven, bookings, courses and bills split across a group on Friday and Saturday nights.
Narborough Road and Braunstone Gate
Turkish, Kurdish, Polish, Somali and Caribbean kitchens on Narborough Road, with Braunstone Gate bars and takeaways serving De Montfort students. Counter and delivery trade through the evening, and term-time swings on the student end.
Evington Road and Green Lane Road
Punjabi and Pakistani grills, dessert parlours and shisha lounges trading late into the night. Phone and app orders from Evington, Highfields and North Evington arrive alongside walk-ins, and the kitchen needs one queue for all of them.
What a Leicester venue needs from its EPOS
The same five things decide whether a till earns its place, in any city.
Every order channel in one kitchen queue
Counter, phone, table, kiosk, your own website and the delivery platforms should land on one kitchen screen or printer, in the order they arrive. A tablet wall for Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo is where orders get missed and re-keyed wrongly.
Speed at your real peak
Count the taps for your most common order on the demo, then imagine doing it with a queue to the door. A system that needs a confirmation screen for a modifier costs seconds on every order, every service.
Keeps trading when the broadband drops
The till should run on a local database and sync when the connection returns, so a dropped line on a Friday night costs nothing. Ask the question directly; the answer separates cloud-only systems from offline-first ones.
Card payments that reconcile themselves
An integrated terminal takes the amount from the till, so card takings are already split on the end-of-day report. Posso Pay is quoted from 1% + 10p on card turnover; Teya and Dojo terminals are also supported.
Published prices, not a quote you cannot compare
Posso publishes every one-off and monthly price on the EPOS pricing page, so a Leicester operator can compare a quote line by line before a demo.
What an EPOS system costs in Leicester
Posso prices are the same in Leicester as anywhere in the UK. Ex VAT; delivery is included for POS systems.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| POS system, single screen | £499 + VAT | Touchscreen terminal, kitchen printer, receipt printer, cash drawer, menu build and training |
| Software | From £25 + VAT a month | Till, kitchen display, kiosk mode, online-order management, reporting, support |
| Kitchen display screen, 21-inch | £399 + VAT | One-off per screen, no per-screen licence |
| Self-order kiosk | From £699 + VAT | Touchscreen, card reader and enclosure |
| Handheld waiter pad | £259 | Table-side ordering and payment |
| Just Eat, Uber Eats, Deliveroo integration | £45 a month | Unlimited orders, all platforms |
| AI phone ordering | £1 per order | Free dedicated number, free setup |
| Posso Pay card processing | From 1% + 10p | Quoted on card turnover, same rate in store and online |
| Finance | From £24.92 a week | 12, 24 or 36 months, subject to status |
Setup (menu build + configuration) is free; on-site installation for larger sites is priced on application. Full list: EPOS pricing.
Delivery, setup and support for Leicester businesses
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 Leicester 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 Loughborough, Hinckley, Market Harborough, Melton Mowbray, Oadby, Wigston, Coalville and Lutterworth. 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.
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EPOS systems in Leicester — frequently asked questions
Our Belgrave Road sweet centre takes hundreds of pre-orders for Diwali and weddings. Can the till manage them alongside the counter?
Yes. Scheduled orders are taken on the till or through your own website with a collection date and time slot, and capacity limits per slot stop a festival weekend overrunning the kitchen. Boxes and set quantities are products with their own prices and modifiers, so a mithai box sells in one tap. The order list for each day shows what is due for collection, so the counter hands boxes over without searching through tickets.
The King Power Stadium and Welford Road rugby ground are a few minutes apart. How does a takeaway on Aylestone Road get through a double fixture weekend?
With a smaller match-day menu scheduled by date, so the screen shows only what the kitchen can turn out in volume, and a self-order kiosk or order-ahead taking the second queue without another pair of hands. The kitchen screen lists orders in sequence with waiting times, card payments reconcile themselves at close, and the hourly report afterwards shows exactly how much extra stock the next fixture needs.
Does Posso supply EPOS systems in Leicester?
Yes. Posso supplies restaurants, takeaways, cafés, pubs and dessert shops across the UK, including Leicester and Loughborough, Hinckley, Market Harborough. Hardware ships preconfigured with your menu loaded, and support is UK-based, Monday to Friday, 9am–9:30pm.
How much does an EPOS system cost for a Leicester restaurant or takeaway?
A Posso POS system is £499 + VAT including the touchscreen terminal, kitchen printer, receipt printer, cash drawer, menu build and training, with software from £25 + VAT a month. A 21-inch kitchen screen is £399 + VAT and kiosks start at £699 + VAT. Prices are the same in Leicester as anywhere in the UK.
Do you install EPOS systems on site in Leicester?
Systems are preconfigured and shipped plug-and-play, so most Leicester venues do not need an installation visit: plug in, log in and start taking orders, with staff training and remote support included. Setup (menu build + configuration) is free; on-site installation for larger sites is priced on application.
Can a Leicester takeaway connect Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo to the till?
Yes. The delivery-platform integration is £45 a month for unlimited orders across all connected platforms, and the orders print or show in the kitchen alongside your own.
Get a Posso quote for your Leicester venue
Tell us what you run in Leicester and we will price the till, kitchen screens, kiosks and online ordering for it, with the menu build included.
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