The restaurant POS your floor and kitchen actually agree on
Tables, KOTs, splits & M-Pesa — one screen.
NinoPOS turns your tablet or PC into a full restaurant management system: take orders at the table, fire dockets to the kitchen, split bills, accept M-Pesa or card, and watch food cost in real time. Designed for the realities of running a restaurant in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda.
Running a restaurant today
- Waiters writing orders on paper that the kitchen mis-reads
- Bills that take 10 minutes to split between four guests
- No idea how much food cost ate into tonight’s revenue
- POS that freezes the moment your internet does
- M-Pesa payments confirmed by squinting at a phone
Running a restaurant on NinoPOS
- Tickets fire to the kitchen in under 2 seconds, with modifiers
- Split a bill by item, by guest, or by percentage in one tap
- Live food-cost % per category, per shift, per dish
- Keep selling during outages — sales sync the moment you’re back
- M-Pesa STK push reconciles itself; no manual entry
Everything your restaurant actually needs
Purpose-built tools — not a generic POS with the wrong defaults.
Table & floor plan management
Visual floor plan with table status, guest count, and timers. See at a glance who needs the bill and who’s still ordering.
- Drag-and-drop floor plan
- Open / sent / paid statuses
- Guest count & seat numbers
- Move & merge tables in one tap
Kitchen Order Tickets (KOT)
Send hot food to the grill, cold to garde-manger, drinks to the bar — automatically. Print or display on a kitchen screen.
- Multi-station routing
- Modifier & allergy notes
- Course pacing (apps → mains)
- Bluetooth & LAN printers
Split bills, tips & service charge
Split a check by item, by seat, or evenly. Add service charge or VAT correctly. Print itemised receipts each guest can keep.
- Item, seat, or even split
- Configurable service charge
- VAT-compliant receipts
- Tip tracking per server
M-Pesa, card & cash — at the table
Send a Daraja STK push to the guest’s phone, dip a card, or take cash. NinoPOS reconciles all three to the same ticket.
- M-Pesa Daraja STK push
- Card terminal pairing
- Mixed-tender splits
- Auto-reconciliation
Recipe & food-cost control
Build recipes once. Every plate sold deducts ingredients. See real food cost per dish, per category, per shift — not at month-end.
- Recipe & sub-recipe trees
- Live food-cost %
- Waste & spoilage logging
- Theoretical vs actual stock
Server, shift & menu reports
Top items, slow movers, sales per server, voids per shift, hourly heatmaps. Export to Excel or schedule via WhatsApp.
- Sales by server / shift
- Menu engineering matrix
- Void & comp tracking
- Daily Z-reports
How a restaurant runs on NinoPOS
From the first order of the day to the closing report — one workflow, one screen.
1. Seat the guest
Tap the table on the floor plan, set guest count, the order opens.
2. Take the order
Add items with modifiers; KOTs fire to the right station automatically.
3. Course the meal
Hold the mains until starters clear; one tap to fire the next course.
4. Print / split the bill
Split by seat, item, or evenly. Apply service charge and VAT.
5. Take payment
M-Pesa STK push, card, or cash — mix tenders if needed. Auto-reconciled.
6. Close the table
Stock deducts via recipes. Numbers hit reports the moment the table closes.
Local payments, currencies, and connectivity — sorted out of the box
Every restaurant on NinoPOS gets M-Pesa Daraja, multi-currency, full offline mode, and WhatsApp customer messaging without a single plugin or add-on.
- M-Pesa Daraja STK push for instant payments
- TZS, KES, UGX, RWF, USD — multi-currency invoicing
- Offline mode for areas with unstable internet
- WhatsApp for receipts, reminders, and orders
- Local tax (VAT) reporting baked in
Frequently asked questions
Specific to restaurant operations.
Does NinoPOS work without internet during a busy service?
Yes. NinoPOS keeps full POS, KOT printing, and payments-by-cash working offline. The moment connectivity returns, every ticket and payment syncs to the cloud automatically.
Can I pay with M-Pesa Daraja directly from the bill?
Yes. Tap M-Pesa on the payment screen, enter the guest’s phone, and an STK push prompts them to pay. The receipt is reconciled the moment Daraja confirms.
Can I run multiple branches on one account?
Yes — unlimited locations are supported on every paid plan. Consolidated and per-branch reports run from the same dashboard.
Can I print KOTs to a Bluetooth thermal printer?
Yes — Bluetooth, LAN, and USB printers are supported, with separate routing per station (kitchen, bar, dessert).
Does this work for restaurants in Tanzania?
Yes. NinoPOS is widely used by restaurants across Tanzania, including Dar es Salaam, Arusha, and Mwanza. For VAT-registered restaurants, fiscal receipts and VAT records are an important part of daily operations — see our companion guide for how fiscal-device workflows connect with modern POS systems.
Can my restaurant take orders via WhatsApp?
Yes — most delivery orders in Tanzania start as WhatsApp messages. NinoPOS captures every order as a structured invoice, fires KOTs to the right station, sends the customer an M-Pesa payment link, and reconciles the payment back to the ticket automatically.
Can I take M-Pesa from delivery customers?
Yes — once your restaurant has a Vodacom Lipa Namba and Daraja API access, NinoPOS sends an STK Push to the customer’s phone with the order total. They confirm with their PIN and the payment lands tagged to the right ticket before the rider leaves the kitchen.
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Takeaway
Online & WhatsApp orders → kitchen → rider — one screen.
Dive deeper into the platform
Modules every restaurant uses heavily.
Ready to run your restaurant on NinoPOS?
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