EPOS systems for Sheffield restaurants, takeaways and cafés

Sheffield's food trade runs along a handful of long roads out of the centre. Ecclesall Road is the best known, two miles of cafés, bars and restaurants from Hunter's Bar towards the centre, with a customer mix of students from the two universities and professionals from Nether Edge and Greystones. London Road, a few streets east, is the city's most varied strip: Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Kurdish, Pakistani and Caribbean kitchens side by side, trading late and heavily on delivery into Sharrow, Highfield and Heeley.

Kelham Island has gone from derelict steelworks to the city's beer and food quarter in fifteen years. Breweries and taprooms, Cutlery Works and the restaurants and bars along Ball Street and Neepsend Lane fill from Thursday to Sunday, and much of the trade is a group ordering several rounds and a few plates from a shared table. In the centre, Division Street and the Devonshire Quarter carry the independent cafés and bars, West Street takes the late-night crowd, and the Moor and Fargate hold the chains. Broomhill, Crookes and Sharrow Vale Road are the neighbourhood high streets where cafés and small restaurants rely on regulars.

The two universities put more than sixty thousand students in the city in term, and Broomhill, Crookes and Endcliffe empty noticeably in summer. Hillsborough and Bramall Lane split the city's football trade between north and south, with the chip shops and pubs on Penistone Road and Bramall Lane itself doing a season's work in two-hour bursts. Tramlines fills Hillsborough Park for a July weekend, and the Crucible brings snooker crowds to Tudor Square for seventeen days every spring.

Sheffield's hills are a practical problem for anyone delivering. A radius drawn on a map means little when a two-mile drop from London Road to Gleadless involves a climb that doubles the time. The till has to let a kitchen define delivery zones by postcode and charge differently for each, keep counter, phone and three platforms in one queue through a late peak, and run a bar tab and a shared table in Kelham Island without the floor plan of a formal restaurant. A café on Ecclesall Road lives on its morning taps per order like a café anywhere, but with a student rush that vanishes in June.

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 Sheffield 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 Rotherham, Chesterfield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Dronfield, Worksop, Stocksbridge and Chapeltown. 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.