Speed at the counter
Menus with sizes and modifiers, a customer-facing screen for tips and fast tap-to-pay keep lines short when it counts.
Food & Beverage
Built for counters, kitchens and dining rooms.
Food and beverage businesses live and die by the rush. The right setup keeps the line moving, gets every order to the kitchen exactly right and turns first-time guests into regulars.
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Common needs
What food & beverage businesses need from their setup
Whether you pull espresso, run a dining room or serve from a truck window, the questions are similar: how fast can you take an order, how does it reach the people making it, and how do you handle tips, online orders and a busy team? Square's restaurant tools cover counter service, table service and bars, and Payaroo helps you pick the pieces that match how your place actually runs.
Orders that reach the kitchen
Tickets that print or show on a kitchen display, routed to the right station, so nothing gets lost between the register and the line.
Pickup, delivery and online orders
A commission-free ordering page, order-ahead windows and delivery-app orders that land in the same system as your counter sales.
Shifts, tips and a busy team
Schedules, timecards and tip pooling so the people who make the rush work get paid correctly.
Business types
Choose your food & beverage business
Each guide covers the Square tools, hardware and payment options that fit that kind of business.
Coffee Shops
Fast counter checkout, drink modifiers, tips and order-ahead.
Quick Service Restaurants
Counter ordering, combos, self-order kiosks, kitchen routing and delivery apps.
Drive-Thru
Drive-thru order types, lane ordering, order confirmation and kitchen timing.
Full Service Restaurants
Floor plans, tableside ordering, coursing, split checks and tip pooling.
Bars & Breweries
Tabs with a card hold, floor ordering, drink routing, tip pooling and events.
Food Trucks
Offline card payments, portable hardware, order-ahead and catering invoices.
Catering
Estimates, deposits, e-signed contracts, future orders and tray pickup.
Bakeries
Display-case checkout, preorders, cake deposits and daily counts that reset.
Pizzerias
Size and topping modifiers, KDS stations, pickup, delivery and phone orders.
Tools that come up most
Square features food & beverage owners ask about
Modifiers and options
Add-ons, removals and choices on any item, each with its own price change; sets can be required or optional with limits.
Tipping at checkout
Tip prompts on the customer's screen with smart suggestions or your own three presets, plus custom amounts.
Sold-out (86) controls
Mark items sold out or set available counts; the status can reset daily and syncs to online and delivery channels.
Order ahead
Customers schedule pickup or delivery for a later time, with lead times, cut-offs and limits per time window.
Kitchen ticket routing
Send each item to the right station — grill, fryer, bar — on a Square KDS kitchen display.
Paid plan + per-device add-onGet started with Payaroo: Kitchen ticket routing
Offline payments
Keep taking card payments when the internet drops; they process when you reconnect. Square recommends reconnecting within 24 hours, and you're responsible for any offline payment that's later declined, expired or disputed.
How Payaroo helps
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Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
- Tell us how you work Where you take payments, how customers book or order, who's on your team.
- See the setup that fits We map the Square hardware, software and payment options to your day — and skip what you don't need.
- Apply with Square Square reviews every application and verifies your identity and business before approving an account.
- Get up and running Help with setup and onboarding, and a real person to call at Payaroo when questions come up.
Not sure what you need? Ask Buckaroo.
Tell Buckaroo how your business works and he'll help you figure out which Square tools make sense.
FAQs
Food & Beverage: common questions
Which Square point of sale is built for restaurants?
Square for Restaurants runs as the Full service, Quick service and Bar modes of the Square Point of Sale app. It covers menus with modifiers, sold-out controls, floor plans, tabs and kitchen displays. Some features, such as floor plans, coursing and split checks, need a paid Square plan.
Can online and delivery orders come into the same system?
Yes. Square Online Ordering gives you a commission-free ordering page, and Square has built-in integrations with DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub. Those orders land in Square's Order Manager and can print or show on your kitchen display.
Do restaurant modes work on a phone?
Square's help center says the Full service, Quick service and Bar modes aren't available on phones. They run on an iPad or Square hardware such as Register, Terminal, Handheld and Stand.
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