EPOS systems for Liverpool restaurants, takeaways and cafés

Bold Street is where Liverpool's independent food trade is concentrated: a sloping half-mile from the Bombed Out Church down to Central station lined with cafés, Middle Eastern and East Asian restaurants, bakeries and bars, with the Ropewalks streets behind it taking the evening drinking trade. Weekend footfall there is heavy with visitors, and the daytime pattern is a long brunch into a long lunch rather than a sharp office peak.

The Baltic Triangle, south of the centre around Jamaica Street and Cains Brewery Village, is warehouses turned into bars, taprooms, street-food halls and venues, quiet on a Tuesday and full from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon. Chinatown on Nelson Street, under the largest Chinese arch outside China, serves the oldest Chinese community in Europe and trades every day of the week. Castle Street and Victoria Street in the business district hold the restaurants and bars that do the office lunch and after-work trade, while Concert Square and Mathew Street carry the late-night crowd and the Beatles tourists.

Out of the centre, Smithdown Road in Wavertree is the student strip for the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores and Liverpool Hope, a run of takeaways, cafés and bars whose trade follows the academic year. Lark Lane in Aigburth and Allerton Road are the neighbourhood restaurant streets for south Liverpool, with a loyal evening and weekend trade. The Royal Albert Dock and the waterfront take the tourist trade from the cruise terminal and the museums, with coach groups and a customer base that pays almost entirely by card.

Match days shape the north of the city. Anfield sits in a residential grid where chip shops and pubs on Walton Breck Road and Oakfield Road do a week's business in an afternoon, and Everton's move to its new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock has brought tens of thousands of supporters down the dock road to a part of the city that had little food trade before. The Grand National at Aintree in April fills the whole city for three days. For the till, that means fast counter service with a scheduled match-day menu near the grounds, tabs and shared tables in the Baltic, order-ahead and delivery platforms in one queue on Smithdown, and card speed everywhere tourists stand.

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 Liverpool 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 Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bootle, St Helens, Southport, Warrington, Runcorn and Widnes. 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.