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What POS Features Does a Small Restaurant Actually Need?
A small restaurant needs a menu, open tickets for tables and takeaway, a close with payment mode, and today's collection.
The features a small restaurant actually needs are short. If a demo spends an hour outside this list, it is selling a different restaurant.
Need
- Menu with prices staff cannot invent.
- One open order per occupied table.
- Separate takeaway tickets that can stay open together.
- Discount, remark, and payment mode on checkout.
- GST breakup when you are GST-registered.
- Today's total by UPI, cash, card, and other.
Do not need on day one
- Inventory and recipes.
- Kitchen display or KOT printer.
- Guest QR ordering.
- Swiggy and Zomato sync.
- Loyalty and CRM.
- More than one outlet.
Related: Complex POS vs simple ordering.
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