A POS built for how halal venues actually trade
Big family tables, sharing platters, late-night dessert rushes and the hardest service of the year at iftar. Servio runs the till, QR ordering, kitchen display and analytics as one system, from £89/month on the devices you already own.
The service patterns most POS systems ignore
Halal restaurants, grill houses and dessert lounges run a different shape of service to the venues most till software is designed around. Parties are larger and stay longer. Orders arrive in waves rather than one round. A lot of trade lands late in the evening, and once a year an entire room orders within the same ten minutes. None of that is exotic. It is just not what a system built around a bar tab is tuned for. Servio is built around table-side ordering and a connected kitchen, which is exactly what those patterns need.
Built for the big table
Large parties stay on one table across a long meal, latecomers add to the same order from their own phone, and the bill splits at the end instead of one person covering everything.
Ready for the iftar peak
When the whole room orders at once, QR ordering takes the orders in parallel and the kitchen screen sequences them by station, so the pass is reading tickets rather than untangling them.
Modifiers that survive the rush
Mixed grills, sharing platters, spice levels, sauces and swaps carry through to the kitchen exactly as the guest entered them, because nobody re-typed them.
Who this fits
Halal restaurants and grill houses, dessert lounges and shisha-adjacent dessert venues, charcoal and BBQ kitchens, halal takeaways and chicken shops, and family cafés. Most of them are independent, owner-run and busiest exactly when everything else is closing. If you are one of those, the venue-specific guides for restaurants, takeaways and cafés cover the detail, and the dessert lounge weekend story is the closest thing we have to a walkthrough of a rush like yours.
What it costs
The same as it does for every venue we serve, and it is all published on the pricing page: £89 Starter for the till, QR ordering and a single-station kitchen display, or £219 Growth when you need multi-station routing, table management, inventory and analytics for a busier room. No hardware to buy, no contract, and payments through Stripe at Stripe's published rates with no markup. Founding venues can start a 30-day pilot free.
Family tables, sharing platters, late trade
This is not a different product. It is the same Servio till, QR, kitchen display and analytics, configured for a room that orders in waves. Large parties stay on one table. Latecomers add from their own phone. The bill splits at the end. Mixed grills and sharing platters carry spice, sauce and swap modifiers through to the pass without anyone re-typing them. We do not sell a "halal-certified POS". Certification sits with the venue and its suppliers. What we sell is a system that does not fall over when the room is full and it is late.
Iftar is the stress test
One night a year the whole room orders within minutes of each other. QR lets guests order in parallel. Growth routes tickets by station so the pass is sequencing, not deciphering. Starter's single kitchen screen still beats paper if you run one line. Table management and multi-station routing are Growth. There is no dedicated "Ramadan mode". There is a connected queue and a floor plan that holds a large party.
What it costs, without a special price list
£89 Starter or £219 Growth, same as every other food-led venue we serve. Enterprise from £449 if you are a small group. Founding Growth pilot: 30 days free, no application, then £109/month for six paid months, then £219. Starter: 14-day trial, no card. Stripe at 1.4% + 10p in person and 1.5% + 20p on QR. Hardware £0 on tablets you own. On Growth, Square readers already on the counter can stay as a switch aid. Direct marketplace integrations are coming; delivery management on Growth already lets those orders sit in the same kitchen queue when you enter them.
Go live on a quiet night, not Eid
Import the menu, walk a sharing platter on a phone, print one QR, run a quiet midweek service beside the old till. Going live, menu import and restaurant POS cover the floor workflow. For dessert-led late trade, the dessert shop page and the weekend rush piece are closer to how the room actually feels.
Split the bill. Keep the sharing platter in one piece.
A family table is not six separate tickets. It is one table that orders in waves, adds latecomers from a phone, and splits at the end by item or by amount. Sharing platters and mixed grills are modifier problems: spice, sauce, swaps, extra bread. Those choices have to survive the pass without anyone re-typing them. Growth table management is how the floor holds that party. Starter can still run the till, QR and one kitchen screen if you are a counter-led grill with a few seats.
Certification is yours. The till is not a certificate.
We do not sell a halal-certified POS and we will not imply that software makes a kitchen compliant. Certification sits with the venue and its suppliers. Servio is the same product we sell to other food-led independents. If drink is the product (alcohol-led bars, wet-led pubs, nightclubs) we are the wrong system. Shisha-adjacent dessert rooms that are still food-led are closer to the dessert parlour page than to a nightclub till.
Groups versus one room
A small group that wants shared menus and cross-venue reporting is Enterprise, from £449, five venues then £99 each. Growth can add up to two more venues at £99 (three total) without the multi-site layer. A single grill house should not buy Enterprise because a sales page said groups. We would rather size it on Pricing than win a quote that does not fit.
Late trade is ordinary, not a special SKU
There is nothing on-premise to lock up. Short drops re-sync. We have not published a numeric offline SLA. Go live on a quiet midweek night, not Eid. Import the menu, walk a sharing platter on a phone, print one QR, keep the old till as fallback. Then trust the board when the room is full. The restaurant floor write-up is on restaurant POS; collection-led rooms should also read takeaway.
Common questions
What should a halal restaurant look for in a POS system?
The same things any busy food-led venue needs, plus a few that matter more: modifier handling for sharing platters and mixed grills, table management for large family groups, split and part payments at the end of a long meal, and a kitchen display that copes when most of the room orders at once. Servio includes the till, QR ordering and kitchen display from £89/month and runs on tablets you already own.
Does Servio work for the iftar rush during Ramadan?
That simultaneous rush is the hardest service of the year: a full room ordering within minutes of each other, then the kitchen needing everything out together. QR ordering lets guests order from the table before and during the rush without waiting for staff, and every order lands in the same queue routed to the right kitchen station, so the pass is sequencing tickets rather than deciphering shouted orders. Growth adds multi-station routing and table management for exactly this.
Can it handle large family groups and split bills?
Yes. Table management on the Growth plan keeps large parties on one table across a long service, and payments can be split at the end rather than forcing one person to cover the lot. QR ordering also means people arriving later can add to the same table order from their own phone.
We trade late. Is that a problem?
No. There is nothing on-premise to lock up or reboot, the system is browser-based on your own devices, and short internet drops do not stop service because it re-syncs when the connection returns. Late-night dessert and grill trade is one of the busiest patterns we see.
Do you work with venues that are not halal?
Yes. Servio is built for independent food-led hospitality across the UK: cafés, restaurants, dessert lounges, bakeries, takeaways and food trucks. Halal venues are a large part of that. The product is the same whoever is running it.
Is this a halal-certified POS?
No. Certification sits with the venue and its suppliers. Servio is the same till, QR, kitchen display and analytics we sell to other food-led independents. We do not sell a religious certification.
Do I need Growth for family tables and iftar?
Starter includes the till, QR and a single kitchen screen, which still beats paper on one line. Table management, multi-station routing and a floor that holds a large party across a long service are Growth. Go live on a quiet night, not Eid.
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