For restaurants & cafés
Guests scan the table QR and order on their phone — no app to download. Tickets hit your kitchen screen with the table number, items, and extras.
Café ordering system · QR ordering system · Kitchen display system
Kitchen display — live tickets on any tablet
Is this for you?
Busy café — mid-service rush
Saturday morning. Tables are full. Two staff on floor. Orders are getting mixed up and you are writing on paper and yelling through a window.
Casual restaurant — keeping EFTPOS
You want a digital menu and kitchen screen, and you want to keep taking cards at the table. When guests pay on the phone, that is a percentage of what they pay.
How it works
Guest scans the table QR
Each table has a QR card. They scan, see your menu, and order on their phone. No app download, no account needed.
Ticket appears on the kitchen screen
The order lands on your Kitchen Display in real time. Extras and notes in plain type. Staff tap when ready — no paper tickets.
They pay as usual — or on their phone
Default: guests pay on your card machine when food arrives. Optional: turn on Pay by Bank or Pay by Card and the ticket arrives already paid.
You run the menu from one screen
Change prices, hide a sold-out dish, print QR cards — all from your workspace. The guest menu updates instantly.
New
Table 4
Eggs Benedict ×1
Extra hollandaise
Flat white ×2
Table 7
Smashed avo ×1
✓ Already paid (Pay by Bank or Pay by Card)
Ready
Table 2
French toast ×2
Long black ×1
Any tablet or screen. No specialist hardware.
What's included
QR table ordering
Per-table QR cards or a single venue QR. Same menu either way. Guests scan — no app to download, no account needed.
Kitchen Display (KDS)
Live tickets on any tablet or screen in the kitchen. New / Ready columns. Staff mark paid or void. No paper tickets going missing.
Food menu manager
Add categories, set prices, upload photos. Hide a dish when you sell out — the guest menu updates in seconds, no reprinting.
Staff PIN
Shared staff PIN to open the kitchen screen for a shift. Mark paid, mark ready, void a ticket.
Today's sales
See today's total, orders, and what's selling from your owner dashboard. No separate spreadsheet.
Payment options
Default: pay on your card machine. Optional: Pay by Bank or Pay by Card — turn either on from Settings, and guests pay on their phone before food arrives.
Guest experience
Guests can order from your usual menu or scan a QR at the table. Usual menu and QR are live today. No guest is locked out of a preference.
01
Usual menu (unchanged)
Staff take orders from a printed menu or verbal request. Nothing changes. QR is optional for guests — not mandatory.
02
Scan the table QR
They scan, browse your menu with photos, choose extras, and send. Ticket lands on the kitchen screen. Live today.
Right for you
Different job?
Savings estimate
Compare a platform % of what you collect with 1% on Pay by Bank. See pricing for the other three plans.
Monthly estimate
Illustrative only. Excludes card / EFTPOS processing. Order Meal 7% is their published claim, not a NextGen guarantee of savings. Platform compare uses 1% on Pay by Bank.
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3
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