Choose your format
Indian restaurants
Start hereThe four things generic POS software gets wrong about Indian formats. Read →
Thali houses & dine-in
Composite platesOne price, eleven decisions, and why modifiers are the wrong tool. Read →
Dosa & tiffin centers
ThroughputA rush that arrives all at once, and the three bottlenecks in it. Read →
Biryani houses
Finite batchesWhy overselling is worse than running out, across seven channels. Read →
Chaat & street food
Speed and cashA counter measured in seconds and a drawer that has to tie out. Read →
Cloud kitchens & multi-brand
Channel managementReplacing the tablet wall with one kitchen screen. Read →
What every format shares
Whatever the format, the same platform underneath: counter POS, self-order kiosk, kitchen display, QR ordering, your own online storefront and delivery channels — on one menu, on ordinary hardware, and running with no internet.
Why format matters more than restaurant size
POS software is usually segmented by size — small, mid-market, enterprise — because that is how it is sold. Operationally, that is the wrong axis. A 40-cover thali house and a 40-cover steakhouse are the same size and need almost nothing in common from their software.
What actually determines fit is the shape of the transaction and the shape of the kitchen:
- How an item is priced. Fixed price, per portion, per kilo, or per head changes the entire counter interaction.
- Whether one item touches several stations. A burger does not. A thali touches four, and the software has to route it as four things while pricing it as one.
- Whether availability is finite and knowable. A batch-cooked biryani has a real number attached to it all day. A dish cooked to order does not.
- How the order arrives. A counter-only shop and a delivery-only kitchen have opposite problems, and channel management is either irrelevant or the whole job.
- What language the kitchen thinks in. Invisible on a feature grid; measurable in tickets per hour.
Each page below starts from those questions rather than from a feature list — and says where ThaliPOS does not fit yet, because that is more useful than a page that claims everything.