Restaurant POS
A free register for quick service, cafés, bars and taprooms: the ticket fires to the kitchen the moment the order is done.
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Illustrative example
In short
Esplanda POS is a restaurant POS system built for the counter: quick service, cafés, bars, taprooms, bottle shops with a kitchen and delivery-only kitchens. It is free, and it keeps food cost, purchasing and delivery apps on the same catalog.
A full-service room keeps its floor register and runs Esplanda's back office alongside it.
Built for
The dividing line is whether the order is sequenced. When a ticket fires the moment it is complete, counter speed is what matters, and that is the register Esplanda built.
Orders fire on completion and the line keeps moving: counter speed is the whole job.
A small menu, lots of modifiers and a high transaction count, rung fast.
Tabs, ID scans and fast repeat rounds, with every age check saved with the sale.
Pours, plus to-go cans and crowlers with their deposits, on one catalog.
Retail and food on one register, with case breaks and age checks built in.
Orders led by the delivery apps, with little or no counter, on the same catalog.
Selling packaged alcohol to go as well? The liquor store POS system covers deposits, case breaks and mix-and-match in detail.
Table service
When courses are timed between kitchen and floor, the register your servers already know stays on the floor. Esplanda runs everything around it.
Beyond the register
A register on its own tells you what sold. Esplanda tells you what it earned, what to buy on Monday and which dish is quietly losing money, whether it rings the sale or reads it from yours.
Photograph the delivery sheet and Esplanda reads it, matches it to what you ordered, and flags short deliveries you were charged for and price rises nobody mentioned. Corrected costs flow into your dish costs. See invoice scanning software.
The best seller is very often not the most profitable dish, and few restaurants know which of theirs is which. Esplanda ranks the menu by contribution, not by covers.
Supplier orders written from what actually sold, with each supplier's lead time and minimum applied, ready for your OK. See purchase order software.
DoorDash and Uber Eats from one catalog, reviews answered, and campaigns measured against margin instead of opens. See third party delivery integration.
Food cost
Five steps, run the same way whether Esplanda rings the sale or reads it from your register.
Photograph the delivery sheet; Esplanda reads it and matches it to the order.
The case that went up without a call, or three billed and two delivered.
Every menu item using that ingredient, at the price you actually paid.
The four dishes that matter, not a list of ninety.
Reprice, re-spec or leave it, with the dollar effect estimated and the result recorded.
The whole back office for a counter-service kitchen is on restaurant management software. Every recommendation is stored with its prediction and its measured result: see how we measure results.
Two paths
Counter-service and bar concepts usually take the native path. Full-service rooms usually connect, because floor management is worth more to them than a single catalog. Neither is a downgrade.
Every line and what it includes is on Esplanda pricing.
Questions
Yes, for counter service. Esplanda POS is built for quick service, cafés, bars, taprooms, bottle shops with a kitchen and delivery-only kitchens, where a ticket fires the moment the order is complete. A full-service floor keeps its restaurant register for coursing, table management, the kitchen display and tip pooling, and runs Esplanda's back office alongside it.
For a counter-service or bar concept, yes, and Esplanda POS is free, with the migration and 30 days of running both registers side by side. A full-service room keeps the register its servers know on the floor; if it is Square, Clover, Lightspeed or KORONA, Esplanda connects to it with no change for staff.
Usually not. When orders fire on completion at a counter, a bar or a pickup window, tickets printed by station to a kitchen printer keep the line moving. A kitchen display earns its place when courses are timed across a multi-course service, and that room keeps the register built for it.
Four things: food cost tracked against live supplier invoices rather than a costing sheet from last spring, margin by dish, purchase orders written from real depletion, and the outside work, from delivery apps to reviews and marketing, measured in dollars. A register tells you what sold; Esplanda tells you what it earned.
It reads your supplier invoices: photograph the delivery sheet and Esplanda applies the price you actually paid this week to the recipe behind each menu item. When a case of chicken goes up, the affected dishes are flagged with their new margin, instead of quietly earning less until someone notices at year end.
Yes. Marketplace Connectivity keeps menus, prices, availability and hours in step on the DoorDash and Uber Eats accounts you already have, from one catalog, and each app's commission shows inside the margin for those dishes. It is $69 per location per month, for restaurants with at least $2,000 a month of marketplace and delivery revenue, and it works whether Esplanda is your register or connected to yours. Bars and other places that sell alcohol are offered it after legal review. See the DoorDash integration cost in full.
Esplanda POS is $0 a month, with the migration and 30 days of parallel running, and no setup fee, no contract and no per-user fees. The hardware set is free, up to about $3,455 a location, when your projected card processing with Esplanda clears our threshold; otherwise you buy it at list price or use the gear you own. Your website is free too: free hosting, then 99¢ per online order, never more than $299 a month. Paid tools are priced on their own on the Esplanda pricing page.
Yes. Esplanda POS reads the barcode on a driver's license, checks the date of birth and expiry from the ID itself, and saves the check with the sale. It also charges container deposits where they apply, which matters for a taproom selling crowlers. Rules are set by your state and license.
Start free today, or book a demo and we'll walk through the counter, food cost and your delivery apps on a restaurant like yours.
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