EPOS systems for Nottingham restaurants, takeaways and cafés

Nottingham's independent food trade sits in Hockley and the Lace Market. Goose Gate, Carlton Street, Broad Street and Heathcoat Street hold the cafés, small restaurants and bars that make up the city's evening trade, and the Lace Market's converted warehouses around Stoney Street and High Pavement carry the cocktail bars and restaurants that fill from Thursday to Saturday. Sneinton Market, a few minutes east, has grown into a run of coffee roasters, bakeries and weekend food traders.

Students shape the west of the city. The University of Nottingham sits between Lenton and Beeston, Nottingham Trent is in the centre, and the halls and shared houses of Lenton, Dunkirk and Radford put thousands of students within a short walk of Derby Road, Ilkeston Road and Lenton Boulevard. The takeaways and late kitchens there do most of their year between late September and June, with Freshers' week and the January return as their busiest fortnights. Hyson Green, along Radford Road and Gregory Boulevard, is the city's main strip of South Asian, Caribbean and Middle Eastern grocers, grills and sweet shops.

Few cities have three major sports grounds within half a mile of each other. Trent Bridge, the City Ground and Meadow Lane sit either side of the river between the Meadows and West Bridgford, so a Test match or a Forest home fixture fills Radcliffe Road and Bridgford Road for hours either side. Goose Fair, held on the Forest Recreation Ground for ten days in early October, is one of the oldest fairs in Europe and pulls hundreds of thousands past the takeaways on Gregory Boulevard and Mansfield Road. The Motorpoint Arena adds concert and ice hockey crowds to the Lace Market, and Old Market Square hosts the Christmas market and beach through the year.

A Hockley café needs speed on the morning rush and a table system that handles brunch without restaurant complexity. A Lace Market bar needs tabs, bookings and bills split six ways. A Lenton takeaway needs order-ahead, delivery platforms in one queue and a rota that empties in July. A West Bridgford pub or chip shop needs to serve a stadium crowd for two hours without the broadband or the kitchen falling over, which is the test to put to any EPOS in Nottingham.

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 Nottingham 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 Derby, West Bridgford, Beeston, Mansfield, Long Eaton, Hucknall, Arnold and Newark. 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.