The takeaway and fast food POS built for peak-hour speed
Counter, collection and QR orders in one queue, routed straight to the kitchen. Built for independent UK takeaways, fast food venues and QSR, from £89/month on the devices you already own.
What a takeaway actually needs from a till
A takeaway lives or dies on the twenty minutes either side of peak. The system has to take an order in seconds, get it to the right person in the kitchen without anyone re-keying it, and keep every channel in one place so nothing is missed while the counter is three deep. Everything else is secondary. Servio runs the counter till, QR ordering, the kitchen display and owner analytics as one system in the browser, so there is no proprietary terminal and no separate app to watch.
Fast at the counter
Short menus, quick modifiers and repeat orders keyed in seconds, on a tablet your staff already know how to use.
One queue, every channel
Counter, collection and QR orders land in the same queue. Delivery orders can be managed there too on the Growth plan, so the kitchen watches one screen instead of three.
Straight to the right station
Tickets route to the fryer, grill or prep station that needs them, with modifiers attached. No paper to lose, nothing shouted twice.
Built for how independents actually operate
Chicken shops, pizza and kebab takeaways, halal grills, burger bars, chip shops, bubble tea and dessert counters, and small QSR groups all run the same shape of service: high volume, short menus, a lot of collection. Servio is priced and built for that operation rather than for a national chain: £89 Starter or £219 Growth, no hardware to buy, no contract, and live the same afternoon because we import your menu from a file or URL. If you are weighing the market, the 2026 comparison ranks the main UK systems honestly and the cost guide works through the all-in monthly figure.
What it costs
Most takeaways start on Starter at £89/month, which includes the till, QR ordering and a single-station kitchen display. Growth at £219/month adds multi-station kitchen routing, inventory and owner analytics for busier kitchens. If you want the routing and stock control without tables and reservations, add them to Starter instead: routing is £35/month and inventory £29, so a busy takeaway runs on £153/month rather than a full-service plan. Both run on your own devices, so hardware is £0, and card payments go through Stripe at Stripe’s published UK rates with no markup. Every price is on the pricing page. There is no quote to request and no sales call required to start.
The twenty minutes either side of peak
A takeaway does not lose money on a slow Tuesday lunch. It loses it when the counter is three deep, two phones are ringing, and a collection ticket is sitting on the wrong printer. The job of the till is to take the order in seconds, send it to the fryer or grill with the modifiers attached, and keep collection in the same queue so nothing is plated twice. QR at the window or on a stand should not create a second screen to watch.
Starter, add-ons, or Growth
Most independent takeaways should start on Starter at £89/month. If the kitchen has more than one station, add multi-station routing at £35. If you want stock control, add inventory at £29. That is £153, and you still do not pay for tables and reservations you will never open. Growth at £219 includes those plus table management, reservations, delivery management, gift cards, feedback and owner analytics. Delivery orders can sit in the same queue on Growth. Direct Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat integrations are on the way; we will not pretend they are live. Guest SMS for collection-ready texts is £29/month (500 per venue, then 6p).
Cash to open, and the card mix
Takeaways are often card-present at the counter and card-not-present on QR. Stripe's published mix for Servio is 1.4% + 10p in person and 1.5% + 20p on QR, with no markup. A marketplace app that re-rates QR at 2.50% is a different bill. Cash to open, kits only: Square £1,687, Zettle £895, SumUp £549, Servio £0. Below about a £24 average order, SumUp wins the monthly all-in - which is worth knowing for a takeaway, where tickets often sit under that. Put your volume in the calculator rather than trusting a sticker price.
Switch on a quiet afternoon
Import the short menu, set staff, print one collection QR, run one 10p Stripe payment, then keep the old till as fallback for the first Friday. Set up your venue in an afternoon and Connect Stripe are the two pages to follow. Starter is 14 days free, no card. The founding Growth pilot is 30 days free, no application, then £109 for six paid months, then £219.
The phone on the counter is still an order
A takeaway does not only sell at the glass. Someone is on the phone spelling a postcode while the counter is three deep. If that order has to be re-keyed into a second screen, peak is already lost. Servio's job is that the phone order, the walk-up, the collection QR on a stand and, on Growth, a delivery ticket you enter all sit in one kitchen queue with the modifiers attached. We will not claim the phone stops ringing. We claim the ticket should not be written down twice.
Collection QR is not table QR
A code on a window or a stand is for people who would rather not queue to speak. It still has to show the live menu, take Apple Pay, and land on the same board as the cashier. It is not a table-service product pretending to be a takeaway. Leave table management off if you never seat anyone. Starter does not make you pay for reservations you will not open. Routing and inventory can be added to Starter at £35 and £29 if the line has two stations and you want stock without Growth's floor tools.
Chicken, pizza, kebab, chips, bubble tea
The platform does not change by cuisine. A short menu with a long modifier list is the common shape: spice, sauce, size, extra chilli, no salad. Import that from a file or URL, then walk it on a phone before Friday. Halal takeaways and chicken shops are the same product; the halal page is for rooms that also seat families. Dessert counters that turn into lounges at night should read the dessert page as well.
What is not a live ingest
Direct Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat integrations are on the way. Until they are live, Growth delivery management is how those tickets join the kitchen queue when you enter them. Guest SMS for collection-ready is £29, 500 then 6p. Square readers already on the counter can stay on Growth. You can start without a sales call. A setup call after signup is help, not a quote.
Common questions
What is the best POS system for a UK takeaway?
For most independent takeaways and fast food venues the deciding factors are counter speed at peak, keeping every order channel in one queue, and not paying for hardware you do not need. Servio runs the till, QR ordering and the kitchen display in one system on tablets you already own, from £89/month with no contract. Enterprise platforms carry deeper franchise reporting, priced and scoped for national chains rather than an independent takeaway. We show the full cost comparison in our comparison guide.
How much does a takeaway EPOS system cost in the UK?
Software runs from £0 app tiers to £219+/month for a full platform, but the real bill includes add-ons, hardware and card fees. Traditional takeaway EPOS bundles add a terminal and often a multi-year contract. Servio publishes its pricing at £89 Starter and £219 Growth, runs on your own devices so hardware can be £0, and processes payments through Stripe at Stripe’s published rates with no markup.
Can delivery orders come into the same queue as counter orders?
That is the point of running one system. Counter, collection and dine-in orders already flow into the same queue and route to the right kitchen station. On the Growth plan, delivery orders sit in the same queue as counter and QR orders, so the kitchen works from one screen instead of a printer per channel. We publish the current status rather than promising integrations that are not live yet.
Do I need a special till or terminal for a fast food venue?
No. Servio runs in the browser on the tablets and phones you already own, so there is no proprietary terminal to buy, replace or repair. Card payments are handled by Stripe. For a busy counter that usually means one tablet at the till, a screen in the kitchen, and nothing else to buy.
Will it keep up at peak?
That is what it is built for. Orders from the counter, QR codes and staff devices land in one queue and route straight to the kitchen display, so nobody re-keys a ticket or shouts an order across a hot line. Short internet drops do not stop service. The system re-syncs automatically when the connection returns.
Are Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat live?
Not as first-party integrations. They are on the way. On Growth, delivery orders can sit in the same kitchen queue as counter and QR when you enter them. We publish that status rather than marking a live ingest that does not exist yet.
Can I text guests when a collection is ready?
Yes, as a Guest SMS add-on at £29/month on Starter and Growth: 500 collection or table-ready texts per venue per month, then 6p. Enterprise includes access, not unlimited texts. Receipts stay on email unless you add it.
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