Selling direct, and what each route to the sale actually costs. Restaurant online ordering on your own site →
A table of eight asks to pay separately at 22:30, the sums go on a napkin and one share is lost. This guide covers splits, card readers, walkouts and card tips under UK rules.
One wrong VAT rate on a till button repeats on every bill, and the shortfall lands on the restaurant. Here is how eat-in, takeaway, service charges and deposits are treated.
Online orders copied by hand lose collection times and allergy notes, and a printer that drops offline mid-service leaves the pass guessing. Here is what a ticket needs and what it costs.
A takeaway that stays open an hour later on Fridays can be selling hot food after 11pm without a licence, a criminal offence. Here is what counts, what it costs and how to set hours.
A card fee line on the bill can be unlawful, unenforceable and repayable to every guest who paid it, while the card cost it was meant to cover keeps arriving. Here is what the rules say and what to do instead.
A drawer that is £20 short, a card total that never matches the payout and a VAT return built from a spreadsheet put the whole business at risk. Here is the cash-up and records routine UK restaurants need.
A marketplace takes £8.40 of commission from a £28 order, and bringing delivery in-house adds registration, allergen, pricing and driver duties. Here are the laws and the sums.
A delivery-only brand can lose 30% of each app order to fees and still face planning, hygiene, allergen and licensing rules. Here is the set-up, with the sums.
A £0 or £49 ordering plan can still cost you in card rates, per-order fees and missing kitchen tools. Here is what UK systems charge over a year, read from their own pages on 13 October 2026.
A takeaway can hand 30% of an app order to the marketplace and still not own the customer. Here is what a UK takeaway website must carry, and what it costs over a year.
Every voucher you sell carries a fee on the sale and a debt on your books. Here is what each UK charging model costs on £10,000 of vouchers, and what your terms need to say.
The codes went on the tables on Monday. By Saturday every order carried a fee nobody quoted, the price on screen was wrong, and the guests' details sat in someone else's app.
