Switching from handwritten restaurant tickets to a POS system
Staff who have relied on handwritten tickets for decades often have absolutely no experience with digital point of sale systems. Additionally, owners struggle to find reviews for low-fee options like Revolut, making it difficult to confidently choose a system when opening a new restaurant.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Switching from handwritten restaurant tickets to a POS system
- 1Writing all orders and tickets by handDid this help you?
- 2Using established, reliable systems like Clover, Toast, or AvocadoPOS despite higher costs.Did this help you?
- 3Evaluating the full cost of ownership including card fees, hardware, and offline capabilities rather than just the license price.Did this help you?
- 4Using Unicenta POS as a low-cost but functional alternative.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Everything has been handwritten for the past 25 years.”source ↗
“I and many other workers have never worked with a pos system.”source ↗
“Has anyone here experience with the Revolut POS? The system is free and the fees sre pretty low so im considering to use it but I havent seen any reviews of it.”source ↗
“I am about to open a restaurant, so I dont have one yet.”source ↗
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