Square for Restaurants
Your complete business toolkit, starting at £0
- Also known as
- square-for-restaurants
What is Square for Restaurants?
A point-of-sale system for restaurants and food businesses that accepts in-person, online, and phone payments with no setup or monthly fees—only transaction-based charges.
Square for Restaurants pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free POS software. Transaction fees 1.75–2.5%. Hardware from £19.
Pay Per Transaction
FreeNo monthly subscription. Free POS software.
- POS app for any payment
- Accept chip and PIN, contactless, and card payments
- Online ordering profile
- Item library and inventory tracking
- Invoicing
- Booking and staff scheduling
Custom Rate
Contact salesFor businesses processing over £200k in annual card sales
Add-ons
- POS Hardware£19 one-time
What Square for Restaurants does
The capabilities that matter for restaurant pos software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Venue type
- Multi-concept
- PCI DSS compliant
- ✓
- EMV chip / contactless payments
- ✓
- Offline mode
- -
- Online ordering
- ✓
- Reservations / waitlist
- ✓
- Loyalty / gift cards
- ✓
- Kitchen display system (KDS)
- -
- Inventory management
- ✓
- Delivery integrations (DoorDash/Uber Eats/Grubhub)
- -
- Proprietary hardware ecosystem (terminals/KDS)
- ✓
- Multi-location support
- ✓
- Target segment
- SMB / independent
- Payment processing
- Built-in / proprietary processor
- Pricing model
- % of transactions
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (2)
Independently observedSquare for Restaurants alternatives
Other restaurant pos software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- HungerRushThe POS Partner Behind Every Great Guest Experiencelow · 40%
- SpotOnThe #1-rated restaurant point-of-sale. Priced to maximize your ROI.low · 48%
- Silverware POSThe POS hospitality leaders trust to unify systems, delight guests, simplify operations, cut costs, scale faster, reduce friction, unlock insightslow · 8%
- OloRestaurant Technology Built to Scalelow · 31%
- CAKE POSGo live in days, not weekslow · 17%
- PAR Brink POSlow · 31%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Square for Restaurants, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 92 | 26.00 | 2382.4 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 20.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 18.00 | 1440.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 40 | 8.00 | 320.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 16.00 | 219.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"pci_dss":true,"inventory":true,"venue_type":"multi","reservations":true,"pricing_model":"processing_pct","multi_location":true,"target_segment":"smb","emv_contactless":true,"online_ordering":true,"hardware_ecosystem":true,"loyalty_gift_cards":true,"payment_processing":"built_in"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60% |