EPOS systems for London restaurants, takeaways and cafés

London is not one food-and-drink market but a few dozen that happen to share a tube map. The City, Canary Wharf and the stretch between Holborn and Liverpool Street run on office lunch trade that is heavy from Monday to Thursday and noticeably thinner on Friday now that hybrid working has stuck. A sandwich bar on Leadenhall Street or a poke counter under a Canary Wharf tower sells most of its day between noon and two, and most of those orders are placed on a phone before the customer leaves their desk.

The cuisine clusters are long established and still specific: Chinatown around Gerrard Street and Lisle Street, Turkish ocakbasi grills on Green Lanes in Harringay, Punjabi restaurants and sweet shops on Southall Broadway, Bangladeshi curry houses on Brick Lane, Vietnamese on Kingsland Road, South Indian along Tooting High Street, and the market halls of Borough and Maltby Street. Soho, Shoreditch and Dalston carry the late trade, with venues pushing past midnight and the Night Tube on Fridays and Saturdays feeding them until the last orders.

Rents and small footprints shape everything else. A Zone 2 pizzeria often does more turnover through Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat than through its twelve covers, and dark kitchens in railway arches from Battersea to Bethnal Green exist only to feed those apps. Stadiums add their own peaks: the Emirates, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Stamford Bridge, the London Stadium and Wembley each bring tens of thousands past nearby takeaways within an hour of the final whistle. Tourist districts from Covent Garden to the South Bank trade seven days with a customer base that never returns and pays almost entirely by card.

For the till, that means three things London operators ask for first: handling counter, order-ahead and three delivery platforms in one kitchen queue without a tablet wall; service charge, bill splitting and tip allocation that staff can run at speed; and a system that keeps trading when the broadband in a basement unit drops. Multi-site operators spread across boroughs also want one menu and one report across every branch, with per-site pricing where a Mayfair unit and a Walthamstow unit cannot charge the same.

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 London 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 Croydon, Ilford, Romford, Kingston upon Thames, Harrow, Bromley, Watford and Stratford. 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.