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#1 Rated POS for Restaurants

Best POS Software for Restaurants — Run a Faster, More Profitable Kitchen

SawaPOS gives restaurants table-side ordering, a real-time kitchen display, recipe-level cost tracking and instant M-Pesa & card reconciliation — all in one cloud POS built for East African dining.

  • 30% faster order fulfillment with kitchen display routing
  • Zero stock variance with recipe-level ingredient deduction
  • Instant M-Pesa, card and split-bill reconciliation
  • Table, parcel and delivery orders in a single terminal
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Margherita Pizza
Margherita Pizza
Main Course
KES 1,200
Stock: 36
Pasta Carbonara
Pasta Carbonara
Main Course
KES 1,100
Stock: 30
Grilled Chicken Plate
Grilled Chicken Plate
Main Course
KES 1,300
Stock: 25
Garden Salad
Garden Salad
Salads
KES 800
Stock: 22
Spring Rolls (4pc)
Spring Rolls (4pc)
Appetizers
KES 500
Stock: 40
Tiramisu
Tiramisu
Desserts
KES 700
Stock: 4
Espresso
Espresso
Beverages
KES 350
Stock: 80
Fresh Lemonade
Fresh Lemonade
Beverages
KES 400
Stock: 50

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Core Features Built for Restaurants

Everything restaurants need to sell faster, control stock and get paid — included in SawaPOS from day one.

Table & Order Management

Floor map, table status, course firing, split and merged bills.

Kitchen Display System

Station routing for grill, bar and desserts with prep timers and ready tracking.

Recipe Costing

Auto-deduct ingredients per dish and track actual versus theoretical usage.

Customer Display Screen

Order transparency, queue ticketing and promotional messaging.

Shift Reconciliation

Opening float, declared close, variance flags and manager confirmation.

Loyalty for Repeat Diners

Points per spend, birthday offers and full customer order history.

Every Payment Method Restaurants Accept in your market

SawaPOS activates only the gateways that genuinely work in your market — no dead options, no bolt-ons, no custom development.

Mobile money

Instant prompt on the customer's phone — confirmed automatically.

M-PesaAirtel Money

Processed via: M-Pesa STK Push · Paybill & Till auto-detect · KopoKopo

Cards & wallets

Tap, swipe or pay online — money settles straight to your account.

VisaMastercardApple PayGoogle Pay

Processed via: Paystack · Stripe

Bank & online

For invoices, wholesale orders and your online shopfront.

Bank transferPayPalPay on pickupCash on delivery

Processed via: Shopfront checkout

Cash

Change calculated for the cashier, counted at shift close.

Notes & coinsSplit payments

Processed via: Built in — nothing to set up

Tax compliance

Local VAT and sales-tax rules configured per country, with audit-ready invoices and transaction exports for the tax authority.

Multi-branch & multi-currency

Branch-isolated stock, sales and shifts under one business identity, with 150+ display currencies and per-branch payment configuration.

Ranked #1 POS for Restaurants by leading East African hospitality groups

Documented results from restaurants running SawaPOS — what was broken, what changed, and what it produced.

30% faster fulfillment Zero stock variance 99.9% uptime

Mama Ngina Grill House

Peter Kariuki, Owner · Westlands, Nairobi

Order time: 18 min → 11 min

The challenge

Peter's 64-seat grill house was losing dinner covers to slow service. Waiters wrote orders on paper chits, walked them to the kitchen, and the grill station often started the wrong dish. On a busy Friday the restaurant turned away roughly 20 walk-ins because tables sat uncleared while bills were manually totalled. Reconciling M-Pesa against the till happened after midnight, and the books rarely balanced on the first attempt.

What SawaPOS changed

SawaPOS replaced the chit system with table-side ordering that fires straight to a kitchen display, routed by station — grill, sides and drinks each see only their own tickets, with prep timers running. Recipe-level costing was configured for all 74 menu items, so every plate sold deducts its exact ingredients. M-Pesa STK Push and card payments now post to the sale automatically, and each shift closes with a declared-versus-system variance report.

Measured results

  • Average order turnaround dropped from 18 minutes to 11 minutes
  • Friday covers up 22% with no extra staff hired
  • Kitchen errors down from 9–12 per service to under 2
  • Nightly reconciliation cut from 45 minutes to under 5
  • Meat variance traced and closed — 6% monthly loss eliminated

“The kitchen display alone changed our Fridays. Orders land at the right station, timers keep everyone honest, and I close the day in five minutes instead of arguing with a calculator at 1am.”

— Peter Kariuki, Owner, Mama Ngina Grill House

Java Point Café (6 branches)

Lucy Wambui, Operations Director · Nairobi & Thika

Reconciliation: 4 hrs → 15 min weekly

The challenge

Running six cafés, Lucy had six separate spreadsheets and no reliable view of which branch was actually profitable. Each branch manager reported sales by WhatsApp, cash shortfalls were discovered weeks late, and there was no way to tell whether a stock shortage was theft, waste or simply a missed delivery.

What SawaPOS changed

All six branches moved onto SawaPOS with branch-isolated stock, staff and shifts under one business account. Each barista logs in with a PIN and opens a shift with a cash float; closing declares cash, M-Pesa and card separately, and any variance is flagged for manager confirmation before it can be closed. Lucy sees consolidated revenue, margin and low-stock alerts for every branch on one dashboard.

Measured results

  • Weekly reconciliation across 6 branches: 4 hours → 15 minutes
  • Cash shortfalls identified same-day instead of weeks later
  • Two underperforming menu lines discontinued after margin data exposed them
  • Stock-out incidents down 70% thanks to per-branch reorder alerts

“SawaPOS gave me one dashboard for six cafés. I stopped guessing which branch was making money and started fixing the one that wasn't.”

— Lucy Wambui, Operations Director, Java Point Café (6 branches)

Restaurants POS — Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. SawaPOS supports table service, parcels/takeaway and delivery from one terminal, with a kitchen display that routes orders by station.

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