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Restaurant POS Systems

Restaurant POS

What is Restaurant POS Systems?

Restaurant Point of Sale(POS) or Food and Beverage POS systems streamline the operations of restaurants, bars, and organizations within the food industry by recording transactions records, tracking sales, cash flow, and food and drink inventory.

Common Features

  • Mobile Capabilities
  • Workforce Management
  • Advanced Reporting Analytics
  • Kitchen Course Management
  • Table Reservations Management
  • Check Settlement Types
  • Multiple Venue Property Concept Support
  • Loyalty Promotions Management
  • Integrations
  • Advanced Compliance & Statutory
  • Inventory Recipe Management
  • Payment Processing
  • Off Line Operations
  • PCI Compliance
  • Role-Based Access
  • Mobile Payments
  • Data extraction
  • Digital menus (generative ai) - future

Top Restaurant POS Systems

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Products: 12
Next Award: Apr 2026

Top Restaurant POS Systems 2025

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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SkyTab

Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

SkyTab (formerly Restaurant Manager) is more than just a POS system. It’s an all-in-one restaurant platform that will transform your business - from front-of house to back-of-house and everything in between.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Inspires Innovation
Badge Winner
Badge Winner

Aloha Cloud by NCR Voyix is the all-in-one cloud-based POS solution you can depend on. Featuring an easy-to-use interface, restaurant-grade hardware and next-day payment funding. With offerings to manage the restaurant at every size and stage, we’re here to grow with you.

Scorecard

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Less Inspiring
  • Under Delivered

Oracle Hospitality Simphony is the premiere cloud and mobile hospitality management platform, providing enterprise point-of-sale (POS) and back-office functionality to support a wide range of food and beverage operations.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Efficient Service

Cons

  • Under Delivered
  • Vendor's Interest First
  • Less Inspiring

Products below are ineligible for awards due to insufficient recent reviews

Toast Inc.

Toast POS

Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Toast Point of Sale, is an all-in-one platform combining powerful cloud-based software, payment processing, and beautiful hardware, all built for the restaurant industry.

Scorecard

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Badge Winner
Badge Winner
Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

Get an end-to-end, personalized solution with all the features you need to maximize throughput, grow revenue, and improve your guest experience. SpotOn Restaurants features point-of-sale, custom menu build, table layouts, labor management, and multi-location management.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.4 /10

As featured in Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares! STARTING AT $59/MO WITH FREE HARDWARE INCLUDED. Purpose-built for restaurants by restaurant people, Lavu's easy-to-use, mobile POS and restaurant management platform is designed to fit any dining type, cuisine, and budget. Lavu streamlines operations and increases revenue while delighting customers. Offering in-house payment processing, online ordering, detailed reporting, loyalty programs, labor management, inventory management & more.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Badge Winner
Badge Winner
Clover Network

Clover POS

Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.4 /10

An all‑in‑one system so you can quickly set up, take payments, and manage just about everything.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service

Bepoz is Built Different... No POS System is one-size-fits-all, but if you're looking for the best POS software for your business, there's a good chance that Bepoz is what you're looking for. Bepoz is so well engineered that we fit perfectly in various types of restaurants, retail stores, hotels, and even stadiums or event venues.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service
  • Acts with Integrity
PAR Technology Corporation

PAR PixelPoint POS

Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.2 /10

PAR PixelPoint POS software is designed for use in any and all restaurant and entertainment concepts, and is configurable to meet your your specific environment requirements, rather than forcing you to change your current processes. PixelPoint POS is available as a perpetual license or subscription option.

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Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Badge Winner
Badge Winner
Global Payments

Xenial

Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.3 /10

The IRIS Restaurant POS Software Solution is an enterprise-grade, cost-effective, easy-to-use Point-of-Sale solution that helps you manage your entire restaurant enterprise. Conversational ordering makes ordering easy for guests and training fast for staff. Specials and combos automatically pop up on-screen.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service
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