EPOS systems for Manchester restaurants, takeaways and cafés

Manchester's food-and-drink trade follows Wilmslow Road south out of the centre. The Curry Mile in Rusholme is now as much Middle Eastern as South Asian, with shawarma and grill houses, shisha lounges and dessert parlours trading until two or three in the morning, and much of the volume arriving by phone and delivery app from Fallowfield, Withington and Longsight. Carry on down the same road and you are in student territory: Fallowfield and Withington feed the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan, and their takeaways live and die by term dates.

In the centre, the Northern Quarter around Oldham Street, Tib Street and Stevenson Square is cafés, bars and small restaurants, where a coffee shop does its day between eight and ten in the morning and again at the weekend. Chinatown sits around Faulkner Street and George Street, with the arch marking a district of restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets that trades every day of the week. Ancoats, around Cutting Room Square, has become a restaurant quarter of booked tables and set menus, while Spinningfields and Deansgate take the office lunch and after-work drinks trade.

Event days matter more here than in most cities. Old Trafford and the Etihad each bring tens of thousands through nearby takeaways and pubs, Co-op Live and the AO Arena add concert crowds at Eastlands and Victoria station, and the Christmas Markets spread across the centre from November. Chorlton, Didsbury and Prestwich are suburbs where independent restaurants and delivery trade coexist, with Beech Road and Burton Road as the local high streets.

A Curry Mile grill needs a till that keeps phone, counter and three delivery platforms in one queue through a four-hour late peak. A Northern Quarter café needs speed and order-ahead for its morning rush. An Ancoats restaurant needs bookings, courses and bill splitting. The common thread is that trade in Manchester arrives in surges tied to term, fixtures and weather, so a system that shows the pattern by hour is worth more than one with the longest feature list.

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 Manchester 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 Salford, Stockport, Altrincham, Oldham, Rochdale, Bolton, Bury and Wigan. 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.