POS for Full Service Restaurants: Seat It, Course It, Split It, Close It.

Square for Restaurants for the independent dining room, with NCR Aloha for the restaurant group.

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Full Service Restaurants

258,626full service restaurants with employees in the US, per Census County Business Patterns 2023.
5.39Mpeople employed by full service restaurants, per the same Census file.
$27.00median hourly earnings of waitstaff at full service restaurants, per the National Restaurant Association.
At the counter

What This Business Needs at the Counter.

A dining room is a timing problem with a payment at the end.

A live floor plan

The host has to see which tables are open, seated or waiting on a check, without walking the room.

Course timing

The kitchen needs to know when to fire entrees, not only what was ordered.

Tickets to the right station

Paper walked to the line gets lost. Each item should land on its own station's screen.

Split it eight ways

Large parties split by seat, by item or evenly, and doing it by hand slows the close.

Pay at the table

Every trip to a fixed terminal is time off the floor. Order and pay at the table turns tables faster.

Tips and shift reports

Tip-outs and each server's sales should come out of the system at close, not a spreadsheet.
The system we'd put in

Square for Restaurants, From Host Stand to Close.

For an independent room, Square documents every piece of table service and publishes what it costs. A group with many units and revenue centers belongs on NCR Aloha.

Also in the lineup

NCR Aloha. For restaurant groups: multi-tiered check splitting, multiple revenue centers, check transfers between staff and redundancy built for network outages.

Floor plan and seats

Customize your floor plan and keep table and seat management organized.

Coursing

Time dishes with coursing; coursing and seat management headline the Premium plan.

Kitchen display routing

Route dine-in, takeout and delivery orders to the right prep station.

Split checks

Split a check by items or seats, or split an amount into equal payments.

Tableside on Square Handheld

A 0.7 pound handheld for orders and payment at the table, $399.

Tip pooling and shift reports

Pool card tips across clocked-in staff, with shift reports showing each team member's sales and tip payouts.

Read the full picture

Square's restaurants page describes coursing to time dishes, table and seat management and a custom floor plan. Its full service page describes routing dine-in, takeout and delivery orders to the right prep station on a kitchen display. Its pricing page describes splitting a check by items or seats or into equal payments, QR code payments on receipts, and lists coursing and seat management as the headline of Square Premium.

On tips, Square's pricing page describes pooling each card tip equally across tip-eligible employees clocked in at the time of the transaction, and team member shift reports showing daily sales and tip payouts, with live reporting by section such as bar, dining room or patio.

Square Handheld lists at $399 and weighs 0.7 pounds; it runs on Wi-Fi. Offline payments upload when the device reconnects, within 24 hours and no later than 72, and the restaurant carries the risk of any decline while offline.

NCR's Aloha point of sale page describes multi-tiered check splitting, multiple revenue centers, table, tab and check management including transfers between staff, and built-in redundancy designed to reduce transaction loss during network disruptions. NCR does not publish Aloha pricing, so we quote it per group. The National Restaurant Association reports a median of $27.00 an hour for waitstaff at full service restaurants, which is why server time on the floor matters.

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How payments roll up

Every Server's Night, Accounted For.

How a table moves from seated to settled on the report.

01

Seated on the plan

The host assigns the table and seats on the floor plan.

02

Fired by course

Items route to each station's screen when the course fires.

03

Paid at the table

Split by seat or item on the handheld.

04

Credited at close

Shift reports show each server's sales and tip payouts.

Pricing

Pricing, Plainly.

Square publishes its rates. NCR Aloha is quoted per group.

Square Free, in person
2.6% + 15¢
Square Plus, in person
2.5% + 15¢, $49/mo per location
Square Premium, in person
2.4% + 15¢, $149/mo per location
Keyed in or card on file
3.5% + 15¢
Kitchen display app
$30/mo per device on Plus, $20 on Premium

Published vendor prices as checked October 7, 2026. Your rate is set when you apply; nothing here is a quote.

Cash discount

The posted price carries the card cost and paying cash earns the discount. Federal law bars the card networks from stopping a discount for cash.

Surcharging in New Jersey

New Jersey caps a credit card surcharge at what processing actually costs you, disclosed before the customer is charged: on signs at entry and checkout, and on the menu for restaurants.

Visa's 3% ceiling

Visa caps a surcharge at your rate or 3%, whichever is lower, on credit only. Debit and prepaid cards are never surcharged.

Notice before you start

Visa requires you to notify your acquirer at least 30 days before you start surcharging.
Hardware

Three Ways to Get the Hardware.

Stations at the host stand and bar, handhelds on the floor and screens on the line.

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Free device

Apply at no upfront cost. Meet a monthly volume threshold and the hardware is on us.

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Predictable

Lease

A predictable monthly cost with a clean upgrade path.

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Lowest long run

Buy outright

Own the device and keep long run costs at their lowest.

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Commonly Asked Questions

For an independent full service restaurant, BatchOut recommends Square for Restaurants, with floor plans, coursing, kitchen display routing, split checks and tableside payment; for multi-unit groups, NCR Aloha.

Can servers take orders and payment at the table?
Yes. Square Handheld and Square Terminal take tableside orders and payment. Square also supports QR code payments on receipts.
Can the kitchen hold entrees until appetizers clear?
Yes. Square includes coursing, and lists coursing and seat management as the headline of Square Premium.
How can a check be split?
On Square, by item, by seat, or as an amount split into equal payments.
Can the POS pool tips?
Yes. Square pools each card tip equally across tip-eligible staff clocked in at the time of the sale, and shift reports show each team member's tip payouts.
We run six locations. Is Square still right?
Possibly, but a group with several revenue centers is where NCR Aloha fits, with multi-tiered check splitting and outage redundancy. We quote both.
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