Food & Beverage
Counter checkout, self-order kiosks, kitchen screens and delivery-app orders in one Square setup built around quick service mode, with Payaroo helping you pick the pieces and get them running.
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What your quick service restaurant needs
Quick service lives on throughput. A guest orders a combo, swaps the side, adds cheese and holds the onions, and that ticket has to reach the grill, the fryer and the expo window exactly as rung up while more guests wait behind them and delivery drivers crowd the pickup shelf.
The setup that works takes orders from every direction — counter, kiosk, your own ordering page and the delivery apps — and funnels them into one kitchen queue. It also shows labor against sales hour by hour, so a lunch-sized crew isn't still on the clock through the afternoon lull.
A line to the door, one cashier and guests reading the menu board for the first time at the register.
How Square helps Square Kiosk lets guests build and pay for their own orders while the cashier handles the rest, and Square Handheld takes orders from guests still waiting in line.
Make it a combo, swap fries for onion rings, add bacon, no pickles — and every change moves the price.
How Square helps Build each combo as one item with required side and drink choices, and price the upgrades inside those modifier sets, so the cashier and the kiosk charge the same way every time.
Counter, kiosk, online and delivery-app tickets all hit the same line cooks, often on different printers.
How Square helps Square KDS routes each item to its station and pulls in online and delivery-app orders. Mark an item 86'd once and it comes off your ordering page and the delivery apps too.
Schedules built on gut feel leave you short at noon and paying a full crew through the slow afternoon.
How Square helps Square Shifts handles schedules and timecards, and the labor-vs-sales report lines up hourly labor cost against net sales so next week's schedule follows the rush.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a quick service restaurant — and why each one earns its place.
Quick service mode takes dine-in, takeout and delivery orders from one menu, with modifiers for combos and 86 controls built in.
Tickets split to grill, fryer and expo screens instead of one crowded printer, and online and delivery orders join the same queue.
Guests order, customize and pay on their own, which frees a cashier to bag orders and run food during the rush.
A commission-free ordering page built from your POS menu, so takeout regulars skip the line and pick up when their order is ready.
DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub orders print or show on your KDS with everything else, and menus, hours and 86'd items stay in sync.
Schedules, clock-ins and a labor-vs-sales report that shows whether the lunch crew matched the lunch rush.
Points for the regulars who order the same combo three times a week, earned with a phone number at the counter or kiosk.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Make the combo an item with a required side and drink, then add optional extras — cheese, bacon, sauce on the side — each with its own price. Minimum and maximum selections stop a cashier or a kiosk guest from skipping a step.
Square KDS sends fries to the fryer screen and burgers to the grill, with an expo screen that brings each order back together and timers that flag tickets running long. KDS needs a paid Square plan plus a per-device add-on.
86 the spicy chicken once and it drops off the register, your ordering page and the delivery apps. For limited items, set a starting count that goes down as orders come in from each channel.
Build a breakfast menu and a lunch menu and give each its own hours and channels. The changeover then happens by itself on the POS, the kiosk, your ordering page and the delivery apps.
Compare hourly labor cost with net sales, check scheduled against actual hours and see which combos and add-ons carry the day in item and modifier reports. Labor-vs-sales reporting needs a paid Square plan.
Guests join Square Loyalty with a phone number at the register or the kiosk and earn by visit, by spend or on specific items, then redeem in store or online. Loyalty comes with Square Plus and Premium.
Hardware options
You don't need every device. Start with what matches where you take payments — and add more later.
A countertop point of sale with two touchscreens: one for your team and one that faces the customer.
The main counter station: your cashier rings up on one side while guests check the order and tap on the other.
A self-ordering station: an iPad in Square's kiosk enclosure where customers build, customize and pay for their own orders.
Self-ordering for guests who'd rather tap through the menu than read the board; a Square POS device alongside it routes the tickets.
A kitchen display app that replaces paper tickets and sends each order to the right prep station.
Kitchen screens for the grill, the fryer and expo, fed by counter, kiosk, online and delivery orders.
A pocket-sized point of sale with a built-in barcode scanner and camera.
Line-busting at lunch: take orders and card payments from guests before they reach the counter.
Software and tools
Counter ordering with combos, modifiers, sold-out controls and menus that switch by daypart.
Commission-free pickup and delivery orders from your own page, sent straight to the kitchen.
DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub orders in the same order queue as the counter.
Schedules, timecards and labor-vs-sales for the lunch and dinner crews.
Points that regulars earn and redeem at the counter or online.
How it works
One realistic day at a quick service restaurant, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your quick service restaurant. We'll stop as soon as we can point you to a useful starting setup.
Tell Buckaroo how your business works and he'll help you figure out which Square tools make sense.
FAQs
A typical counter starts with Square Register and a receipt printer, plus Square KDS screens for the grill, fryer and expo line. Add Square Kiosk when guests should order for themselves and Square Handheld to take orders in line at lunch. Quick service mode runs on an iPad or Square hardware, not on a phone, and KDS and Kiosk each need a paid Square plan plus a per-device add-on.
Yes, with modifiers. Make the combo an item, add a required set for the side and another for the drink, and price upgrades like large fries or onion rings inside those sets. The same combo shows up on the POS, the kiosk, your ordering page and the delivery apps.
They don't have to. Orders from Square Online Ordering and from DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub land in Square's Order Manager and print or show on Square KDS next to counter orders. Anything you mark sold out comes off those channels too, so drivers aren't waiting on food you can't make.
Square Kiosk is an iPad in Square's kiosk enclosure where guests browse the menu, customize their order and pay by tap or chip. It works alongside a Square POS device that sends tickets to your printers or kitchen display, and it can sign guests up for loyalty. The Kiosk software needs Square Plus or Premium plus a per-device add-on.
Square publishes its own pricing. Square Free has no monthly subscription (you pay processing fees), while Square Plus and Premium add what a busy counter tends to want, such as loyalty, marketing and labor-vs-sales reporting. Square KDS and Square Kiosk each need a paid plan plus a per-device add-on. Check Square's pricing page for current numbers, and we'll help you work out which add-ons your line actually needs.
Start by telling us where your orders come from — counter, kiosk, online, delivery apps — and we'll sketch the setup. You apply with Square directly, and Square reviews the application and verifies your identity and business before approving the account. Once you're in, Payaroo helps with setup, from combo modifiers to kitchen routing.
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Tell us about your menu, your kitchen and where orders come from, and we'll help you map the Square setup.
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