Customise your Own Takeaway EPoS System

The above are a selection of our popular till systems for takeaways. We can configure a custom till system for your takeaway business with your choice of equipment and peripherals and one of our takeaway epos software packages. Please Contact Us with your takeaway till system requirements for expert advice and a competitive quote.

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Features Available on our Take Away EPoS Systems

Our till systems for takeaways offer a wide range of features suited to the different types of food and drink serving establishments. Please note that not all features are available on all our systems - check the specification of your intended system if you require a particular feature or contact us for expert advice.

We provide options to link to telephone caller id module so your regular customers details and previous orders are automatically retrieved, print food/drink container adhesive labels, loyalty points schemes, integrated card payment processing with different payment providers, cloud back office system, product barcode label printing and much more.

On our Windows-based SamTouch EPoS system, the online ordering app OrderMe allows your customers to order directly from their smartphone with both iOS and Android devices. Save potentially thousands of pounds a month in commission fees to JustEat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats if you use your own delivery drivers by getting your customers to order through OrderMe - it instantly pre-processes their card payment, the bill is printed in seconds on your till system and any related kitchen printer/video system for both collection and home delivery orders.

Kitchen Order Printing

All our till systems for takeaways can optionally have a kitchen printer attached or you can print kitchen tickets on the front receipt printer. With a kitchen printer, food and drinks orders can be instantly transmitted to the preparation area from the till point. This saves valuable time as staff are not walking backwards and forwards to deliver order slips, enabling them to attend to other customers and provide a faster more efficient service. It also results in less mistakes with customers orders which can occur when handwritten instructions cannot be properly read or if kitchen staff cannot hear orders which are shouted across.
You can choose from a kitchen printer with a tear bar (for manual tear-off) or an auto-cutter. Some kitchen printers are equipped with a buzzer or bell to alert kitchen staff to new orders. We normally recommend impact dot-matrix mini printers for kitchen use which print on plain paper (either 1-ply or multi-ply), as the print on thermal paper can be damaged if exposed to heat or moisture.
The kitchen printer can be connected with an RS232 Serial Cable - we recommend no more than 25m length for reliable operation. Alternatively a printer with Wireless Ethernet interface can be used.
We also support a number of other languages for kitchen order printing for cafes where speciality chefs may prefer their own language. The kitchen ticket can be printed in Chinese, Urdu or some other supported language, while the rest of the system operates in English.

Kitchen Video/Monitor System

With the kitchen video system orders are instantly displayed on large touchscreen in the kitchen. The kitchen app allows kitchen staff to remove completed orders from the screen once they are prepared. You may also set a time limit so orders will start flashing in red if the time limit has been exceeded.

Clerk Interrupt

With the 'clerk interrupt' feature, multiple staff members can use the same till to process multiple orders. One staff member at a time can be physically using the till, adding to or amending a customer order, while orders being processed by other staff are temporarily parked.
Staff can switch to their orders by logging in with their dallas key, fingerprint reader or with their username. Orders may also be retrieved by table number or from a list.

Menu Design

The layout of your menu on the system is very important as it determines how quickly and accurately your staff can operate. Our takeaway epos systems allow you to have hot-keys on the front screen for your most popular food and drink items, you can colour co-ordinate menu buttons (eg. cold drinks in blue, hot drinks in red etc) and you may also incorporate text, pictures or graphics on menu buttons to further speed up identification for staff.
You can define a series of hierarchical screens and pop-up windows for the different sections of your menu. For example, in a cafe you may have your menu split into Starters, Main Courses, Desserts, Cold Drinks, Hot Drinks and so on or you may have a more detailed structure such as Chicken Main Courses, Fish Main Courses, Vegetarian Starters and so on. Our take away epos systems will allow you to structure the on-screen menus to suit your particular requirements and you can add/change items whenever required. In addition, you may also have pop-up menus for condiments and cooking instructions.
Where you require customisation in a take away, for example, for pizza toppings or sandwiches, it is possible to build a screen layout to facilitate all the options. For example, white bread or brown bread, extra tomatoes, no onions, ketchup, mayonnaise, chilli sauce and so on. Cooking options such as mild, medium or hot spicy can also be programmed.

Floating Clerk

The 'floating clerk' feature is very useful in a busy take away with multiple terminals. It allows staff to retrieve a customers bill from any till on the network, add items to the bill and to finalise the customer bill.

Stock Control and Recipe / Ingredients Management

With stock control, you can keep track of all the food and drink items at your take away business. You can specify minimum stock levels to prompt re-ordering. With Recipe / Ingredients Management, you can specify the portions that make up each menu item - for example, a slice of chocolate cake may be made up of 50g of flour, 30g of sugar etc. The system will deduct the items from stock, either as whole items or proportionately, as they are sold.
With stock control, you can sell items by the whole (eg. bottle, can) or you can serve measures such as pint, half-pint, single shot, double shot, glass etc and the cafe epos system will adjust the stock levels accordingly using fractional values which have been pre-defined.

Staff Timekeeping

With the staff timekeeping module, takeaway staff are required to login and logout at the start and end of each shift and to record any breaks. This allows you to generate summary reports showing the hours worked for each person to assist in wages calculations.

Discounts & Meal Deals

With our Windows-based takeaway epos systems, it is possible to program in meal deals, promotions and other discounts for automated price calculation. It also allows for 'happy hour' and 'early bird' types of pricing that is linked to particular time periods.

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Take a look through our different Take-Away EPOS systems above and feel free to Contact Us to discuss your business requirements, get expert advice and obtain a prompt quotation. We can provide a complete service including supply of EPOS equipment, software and consumables, on-site installation, manager/operator training and ongoing support.