Restaurants, cafés, hotels and homestays turn a street into somewhere worth visiting. They employ young people, buy from local suppliers and live or die by the next review.
Eating out and staying away are how many people mark the good days. For a town, hospitality is how visitors’ spending stays local: in wages, rent and the suppliers behind the kitchen door.
It is also where many people find their first job. A lot of restaurants and guest houses are small and owner-run, so every hour the owner spends on admin is an hour away from the floor.
Four pressures, in plain words. Where a published figure backs one up, we show it with its source.
Tables order by QR code, guests book rooms online and delivery apps add a second queue to the kitchen. With most of the world now online, the front door is partly digital.
5.5 billion people, 68% of the world, were online in 2024. ITU, Facts and Figures 2024, 2024
Staff turnover is part of the trade. Tools a new starter can learn on the first shift matter more than long feature lists.
Orders from the table, the counter and delivery apps need to land on one kitchen screen, or dishes go missing and guests wait.
Food waste is money thrown away. Recipe costing and wastage records show what to cook less of, and what to stop buying.
The small operator and the large one share the same trade, but not the same headaches.
Table, QR, counter and delivery orders on one kitchen display.
A front desk with a room chart, a booking engine on your website and a channel manager for travel sites.
Recipe costing and wastage, so the menu changes for a reason.
Review replies from one inbox, and social posts planned a week ahead.
Each restaurant or property is a channel. Restaurant, Hotel, Website and Reviews are apps on it.
| App | What it does | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurant | Restaurant POS with table orders, kitchen screens, menus and delivery apps. | Free |
| Reviews | Collect Google and on-site reviews, reply fast and show the best ones on your website. | Free |
| Total per channel, per month, before tax | Free | |
Add or remove apps at any time. An app removed mid-month is billed only for the days it was installed. Every price
Hotel and homestay management: reservations, rooms, housekeeping and channel manager.
Build your website and mobile app with pages, content, menus and widgets.
Book couriers, print labels and track parcels and returns across major UK and US carriers.
Plan, schedule and measure posts on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X and YouTube.
Point of sale for your counter with barcode billing, card and contactless, synced with your online store.
Points, tiers and referral rewards that bring customers back.
The first set above costs Free a month per channel before tax. The same apps scale to many brands without switching product.
Each step is a real screen in the panel. Stop whenever you like; everything waits for you.
Free, with passkeys and 2-step verification.
Its legal name, registration and VAT or EIN number, so invoices are right from the first month.
One per brand or line of business, with its own name, website address and team.
Add your menu or your rooms, then connect delivery apps or travel sites.
Reply to guests and plan posts from the same channel.
Figures are quoted as the source publishes them, with the year of publication. App prices are our own, in pounds per channel per month before tax.
Create your User ID, add your business and open a channel. Install the apps you need and pay for them after the month.
