Best POS for a new restaurant?

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Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles restaurant operations well

Budget is around $288/month. What would you suggest?

Sharon Richardson 👑 Master

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Nathan Garcia

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Oct 5, 2025

Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup

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Dennis Cook

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Oct 20, 2025

Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup

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Rebecca OBrien

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202 posts

Nov 4, 2025

I've been using Vend POS for 15 months and it has been working well for us

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Robert Garcia

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220 posts

Nov 7, 2025

Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach

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Carlos Murphy

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218 posts

Nov 13, 2025

+1 to this. We've seen similar results.

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Scott Patterson

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Nov 25, 2025

Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach

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Scott Patterson

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190 posts

Nov 28, 2025

+1 to this. We've seen similar results.

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