POS
Restaurant POS, ordering and team apps for independent restaurants — one system, one price
Friday · 5:48 PM
The whole restaurant, under your name.
Your own ordering app and website, the tables, the kitchen, the drivers, the schedule, the numbers — one system, every app, $199 a month per location. Nothing sold separately. Keep your payment processor. No fees on your guests.
New order · Table 5from the guest’s phone · 5:48 PM
Two Forks is a restaurant we invented for this film, and the screens on this page are ours — drawn, and labelled in English for the US edition we are building. Table 5 just ordered from a phone; table 12 just sat down. Scroll — their order makes the whole journey by itself.
5:52 PM · a regular, from the parking lot
Your own app. Your own site. Your own orders.
Your restaurant’s own installable app — your name, your colours, on the phone’s home screen — and a website on your own domain. Regulars sign in with their phone number, see what they’ve earned, and reorder the usual in one tap. Pickup or delivery, straight to your kitchen. No marketplace commission. No fee added to the guest’s order.
One tap later
The usual, in one tap.
P-07 · pickup · ready by 6:12 PM
The menu in your app and on your site is the till’s menu. Change a price once; 86 an item once — it greys out on every ordering screen at the same moment.
No app, no sign-up
Table 12 scans and orders. That’s it.
Sent straight to the kitchen · your server is a tap away
The menu opens on the table
One tap on +, and it’s in the cart.
Added · Smash burger · no pickles
A dish with options opens a sheet already filled with the house default — you change only what you want.
Two phones, one order
A friend scans the same table and lands in the very same order.
No downloads, no SMS code, no waiting for a server to be free.
You know these minutes
The usual way, the kitchen hears last.
- Flag the servera hand in the air, menus already closed.
- Dictate the order“no pickles”, out loud, over the noise.
- Cross the roomand at the terminal — a line.
- Re-key it allline by line, from memory to screen.
At every step, the order waits for somebody to be free.
This time — none of them.
Sent. The kitchen hears first.
A-14 · Table 12
No server touched it.
The crossing
Here the page turns
The order leaves the phone and becomes paper.
A-14 · Table 12 · 6:16 PM
Grill · Fry · Bar
The ticket prints. The page turns.
It prints as pixels — your items, your modifiers, exactly as drawn — on the ESC/POS thermal printers you already own, on the network or plugged into the till. Then it’s cut by station.
Nobody wrote it down. Everything is written down.
One pass, one truth
What’s late jumps to the top by itself.
The tablet at the pass and the TV on the wall show the same queue, live, no refresh — there are never two versions of tonight.
14:02 · late
The late threshold is per station, and it’s a setting — not code.
The TV at the counter
A wall screen nobody touches.
The live queue, and which order codes are ready. Names stay off the wall — the code is what a pickup customer is waiting to hear.
6:38 PM · her handheld rings
The notepad is gone. The server stays.
The order reached the kitchen without her typing a line. When it’s up at the pass, her handheld rings — even in her apron pocket.
Ready for pickupTable 12 · A-14
7:10 PM · the table orders again
Round 2.
From the phone, without waving anyone down.
She collects, serves, recommends what’s worth another round — the things you hired her for.
8:05 PM · the check, the tip, your own card machine
The card is taken on the terminal you already run; the till records it. The tip percentages are yours to set.
Table 12 · 8:09 PM
The table turned itself. The next party is already seated.
No waving, no “excuse me, could we get the check?”. On a full night, a table that frees itself is the next order — and it’s quiet at the counter. That used to be a bad sign.
$6,140
drawer · dinner shift, so far
8:20 PM · another regular, from the same app
Delivery on your own drivers. No commission.
D-31 came in from your app at 7:58 PM. Your driver’s phone gets the board: the address, what to collect at the door, the customer’s note, navigate, delivered. It rides the same menu, the same kitchen queue and the same reports — no per-order fee from us, and no marketplace in between.
Marketplaces charge 15–30% commission per delivery order7. Orders through your own app and site carry no commission and no per-order fee from us — your delivery fee, if you charge one, is yours.
8:40 PM · the counter terminal goes dark
A terminal dies. You pull out your phone.
No station holds your data — the cloud does. The till is a browser on any Windows PC or tablet; the staff apps run on any Android phone. So when the box at the counter dies on a Friday, somebody signs in on the nearest screen and keeps serving. No reinstall, no restore, no “a tech will call you Monday.”
The one thing on this page that polls: the device-health panel asks every 15 seconds — a dead till is the one change nothing can announce.
the nearest phone
Same checks, same drawer, same pickup queue.
Roles are per person: a PIN opens exactly what that job needs. Deactivate someone and every device they were signed into is locked out at once.
And that was one table.
Full house. One system.
Twenty tables, two pickup orders on the counter, one driver out. The manager’s phone shows the whole room — and every screen in the building feeds the same numbers: the till, the handhelds, the kitchen, the TV, the drivers, the schedule.
The only number that doesn’t climb tonight.
One system. Every app. One price.
A full Friday, every screen, one bill.
Book a demo10:52 PM · the line drops
The internet goes down. Let’s watch what happens.
We have no offline mode, and we won’t sell you one. Here is what there is instead: orders already in wait in the cloud and print the moment the line is back — stamped with the time they were ordered, not the time they met paper. Meanwhile, five silent minutes from every staff screen close phone ordering by themselves, so no guest orders into a kitchen that can’t see it. Staff phones on cellular still reach the system; their tickets print when the printer’s network is back.
No line 10:52 PM
Five quiet minutes
Phone ordering pauses itself, with a notice that points the guest to the staff. It reopens the moment one staff screen is heard from again.
Phone ordering is paused right now.Please see the staff.
Line is back 10:57 PM
Five tickets in the queue
Out in a row the moment the line returns, each stamped with its own order time — 10:53, 10:54, 10:56.
And a dead printer isn’t a dead line — it rings at the till, and one button resends the stack.
Bar printer not answering3 tickets waiting
Resend11:48 PM · the closer
The schedule, the punch, the timesheet — on each employee’s own phone.
Published schedules and availability, punch in and out from the phone or the wall clock, breaks, timesheets in the bands you configure, and a payroll-ready CSV at month end. Starting a shift is one tap; ending it is two — on purpose.
Jooule labels hours by the bands you set and exports them; it doesn’t compute pay or wage law — your payroll provider does.
2:11 AM· everyone’s gone home
The system calls me before you do.
It watches itself — a stuck print queue, a failed document, a stale backup, a silent till, a shift nobody closed — and tells me, not you. The silent-till alert mutes itself outside your opening hours, because a till that’s off at 2 AM isn’t a fault. I’m Shlomo Hayun, Jooule’s founder; you get my number on install day. Our US line, +1 (347) 837-7382, is answered in the US, on US hours. And when you need a change — a modifier flow, a report column — the people who wrote the code make it: small changes usually ship in one or two business days, and we tell you the date before we start.
Saturday · 7:30 AM · first coffee
The morning coffee comes with answers.
Last night’s takings; sales by hour, by item, by server; comps and discounts with the reason typed and the PIN that approved them; tips split by the rule you chose — pooled by hours, split equally, or by tables — and kept separate from sales, so your drawer reconciles and payroll gets a clean CSV. Everything exports — menu, checks, timesheets — as the owner, any time. Leaving would be a download, not a negotiation.
The count is blind
Count the drawer first; the expected total shows only after you commit. $6,138.50 expected · +$1.50 over — revealed after the count, never before.
The figures on this page are an illustration, not live data — Two Forks is the restaurant we invented for this film.
The price is written here, not in a meeting.
$199
per month, per location
By quote
setup — we build your menu, floor plan, printer routing and your payment-gateway integration
Same price for every location. No per-terminal fee, no per-app fee, no per-employee fee. Add a fourth terminal, turn on QR ordering, put the kitchen queue on two more screens, give every server the shift app — the number stays $199. Month to month; cancel any time; your data leaves with you.
What’s included
| Your restaurant's own installable app | Add-to-home-screen, in your name and colours; regulars sign in with their phone number, see their balance and coupons, and reorder the usual in one tap. |
|---|---|
| A website on your own domain | Pickup and delivery ordering; the menu is the till's menu — change a price once, 86 an item once. Automatic HTTPS. |
| QR table ordering | No app, no sign-up; friends scan the same table and share one order; add during the meal; ask for the check and tip from the phone. |
| Reservations | Online booking with a managed waitlist by party size; the day's list in the manager zone. |
| The till | Any Windows PC or browser: checks, combos, the drawer, pickup orders, a blind cash count; card payments recorded from your own machine. |
| Waiter app | Floor map, tableside ordering, amendments with a typed reason and a manager PIN, move tables, close at the table — cash or your own card machine — and print the check. |
| Kitchen app | One queue at the pass, bump per station with undo, late orders surface first. |
| TV queue | A wall screen at the pass or the counter: the live queue, and which order codes are ready. |
| Delivery board | Your own drivers: the address, what to collect at the door, navigate, delivered. |
| Shift app | Published schedules, availability, punch from the phone or the wall clock, timesheets, payroll CSV. |
| Manager zone | The menu, the floor plan, staff and permissions, reports, tips, the members' club, the site editor, and a full data export — JSON, timesheets as CSV. |
| Printing | ESC/POS thermal printers on the network or on the till; tickets cut by station; print in order after an outage. |
| The platform | Live updates to every screen; an append-only audit trail behind a PIN; nightly backups; alerts that go to us. |
| Install | A location opens in one transaction; the staff apps are Android APKs, one per role, that take your address on first run — and any browser works without them. |
Payments: bring your processor
We are not a payment processor and never take a cut of your card volume — your processor’s rate is your processor’s rate. Any standalone terminal works on day one: the till records the payment. Integrated terminals and online payment for your app, site and tables: Stripe Terminal and Stripe online are the first integrations we build, during your setup. At $1M a year in card volume, being locked into a vendor’s processing at half a point worse than your own rate is about $5,000 a year — more than the software.
No fees on your guests
We don’t add fees to your guests’ orders — no per-order fee, no “order support fee”. One of the largest ordering platforms charges the guest 5% on every order8; here, your guests pay your prices.
Hardware: yours, or ours by quote
Bring any hardware: Android tablets and phones, Windows PCs, anything with a browser, and standard ESC/POS thermal printers — nothing proprietary to buy, nothing proprietary to break. Or ours, by quote.
Not included: marketplace integrations (DoorDash, Uber Eats), payroll, accounting, self-order kiosk software, and the early-access items below.
What the incumbents publish
| Vendor | Software | What costs extra | Processing & term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toast | $0 Starter / $69+ 1 | Branded mobile app only in the ~$299/mo Digital Storefront Premium tier 2 | Toast processing required; contracts up to 3 years, auto-renewing 1 |
| Square for Restaurants | $0 / $49 / $149 per location 3 | KDS $20–30 per device/mo; kiosk $30–50 per device/mo 3 | Square processing |
| TouchBistro | from $69/mo 4 | add-ons priced on request | hardware on request |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | $69 / $189 / $399, billed annually 5 | KDS $30 per screen/mo 5 | a $99/mo fee for using your own processor is reported 6 |
| Aloha · Micros | no public pricing | — | custom contracts |
| Jooule POS | $199 per location | nothing — every app above is in it | your processor; your hardware, or ours by quote; month to month |
- Merchant Maverick, Toast POS review — captured Aug 20, 2026
- Toast, Branded Mobile App FAQ; the $299 figure per Restaurant Dive (Toast-attributed), Oct 8, 2024 — captured Aug 20, 2026
- squareup.com, Square for Restaurants pricing — captured Aug 20, 2026
- touchbistro.com/pricing — captured Aug 20, 2026
- lightspeedhq.com, Lightspeed Restaurant pricing — captured Aug 20, 2026
- Merchant Maverick, Lightspeed Restaurant review — not on Lightspeed’s own pricing page — captured Aug 20, 2026
- DoorDash merchant pricing (DoorDash’s own page, via its Aug 14, 2026 archive snapshot) — captured Aug 20, 2026
- owner.com/pricing — captured Aug 20, 2026
Figures are each vendor’s published or reported pricing on the dates shown; confirm current terms with the vendor. Names belong to their owners; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Prices in US dollars, plus applicable taxes, correct as of August 20, 2026. Not a binding offer — a signed agreement governs price, scope and terms.
Not in the $199. Not dated. Not for sale yet.
Early access — ask for a seat.
Three things we are building now. None has a date, none is in the price above, and none is shown anywhere on this page as working. Ask for a seat and you’ll hear first — and be asked what it should do.
The AI manager assistant
Ask your numbers in plain English — “how did Friday compare”, “who’s late on the schedule” — and get a daily and per-shift digest, and anomaly alerts. Let it act: edit the menu, 86 an item, fix a missed clock-out — every action PIN-logged like everything else. And not only for the manager: each employee gets their own assistant, one that knows them, the restaurant, and the team’s schedule and positions.
The AI representative
Answers the phone and the chat — web, WhatsApp, SMS — when you can’t. It knows the live menu and what’s 86’d, takes the order end to end, and sends a payment link on your processor. It never takes a card number by voice, it announces itself as an AI at the start of every call and chat, and it hands off to a person the moment one is asked for.
The transparent kiosk
A self-order kiosk with a see-through display. A working unit exists at the maker’s bench in China; it is not running Jooule yet, and it isn’t for sale.
These are not offered for sale and are not part of the subscription.
Every cent can explain itself.
- Money is kept in whole cents — never floating point.
- A discount without a typed reason doesn’t go in; a void, comp or discount needs a PIN with the right permission and leaves a permanent record — who, what, when, why, approved by whom.
- The cash count is blind: the expected total appears only after you’ve counted.
One restaurant lives on it every night.
Shlomi Shipudin, Be’er Sheva, Israel — on Jooule POS since August 2026. [Owner’s quote pending — with written consent]
First US installs are by invitation.
Jooule has been building since 2021. The product runs in Hebrew today, at one restaurant, every night. The US edition — English screens, US dollars and sales tax, your processor — is what we are building now, and the first installs are by invitation: a handful of restaurants we set up ourselves, on site, at the published price. Book a demo; ask for a seat.
Or call +1 (347) 837-7382 — answered in the US, on US hours · hello@jooule.com