Take orders

Scan, order, split, leave when ready.

A QR code on the table opens your menu, runs a tab for that table, lets a group split the bill however they like, and calls a server when they need one — so nobody waits twice for the same thing.

the guest scans and orders in the browser
No appthe guest scans and orders in the browser
per table, however many people order
One tabper table, however many people order
evenly, by item, or one person pays
Split any wayevenly, by item, or one person pays

The problem

Guests wait twice: once to order, once to pay

The two longest waits in a full-service meal have nothing to do with the kitchen. A table is ready to order and cannot catch anyone's eye; then they are ready to leave and have to wave for the bill, wait for the card machine, and wait again to split it four ways. Each wait costs a table turn, and both happen at exactly the moment a guest decides how the evening went.

  • A table sits ready to order while every server is at another table.
  • Splitting a bill by hand at the terminal is slow and error-prone.
  • One person paying for everyone quietly caps the check.
  • You have no idea which tables actually turn and which sit.

How OwnTable solves it

The table orders and pays for itself

Each table gets its own QR. Scanning opens your menu with the table already known, so anything ordered joins one running tab — and when they are done, they settle it from the phone in their hand.

A real tab, not a series of orders

Four people ordering from four phones build one bill. Rounds added later join the same tab.

Splitting is the guest's problem, solved

Evenly, by item, or one person covers it — decided at the table, with no maths at the terminal.

Servers get called, not hunted

A call-waiter button raises it on your screen with the table number, so staff walk to a table that actually needs them.

What you get

The difference it makes, in practice

Turn tables faster

Both the ordering wait and the paying wait disappear. The guests leave when they are ready rather than when someone is free.

Bigger rounds

A second drink is one tap away rather than a wave across the room, and the upsell prompt runs on every order.

No app, no login

The guest scans and is on your menu. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.

Your servers do the human parts

Taking down a list of dishes is not hospitality. Being at the table when it matters is.

You learn per table

Which tables turn, which sit, what each one spends, and when your covers actually peak.

Drive-thru too

The same mechanism runs your window: a car number on the ticket, and pay at the window if that is how you work.

How it works

Live in days, not quarters

  1. 1

    Generate your codes

    Add your tables and print a QR for each. They are yours to design onto a card, a stand or a menu.

  2. 2

    A guest scans

    Your menu opens with the table already known. No code to type and no table number to remember.

  3. 3

    The tab runs

    Everything ordered from that table joins one bill, whoever ordered it and whenever they did.

  4. 4

    They settle and go

    Split it, pay it, and leave. The tab closes itself and the table shows clear on your screen.

In detail

Everything included

At the table

What the guest experiences between sitting down and leaving.

  • One QR per table, generated and printable from the dashboard
  • A running tab shared across every phone at the table
  • Split evenly, split by item, or one payer covers the table
  • Call a waiter, with the table number raised on your screen
  • Tipping at the point of payment
  • Pay by card, wallet, or ask for the terminal — nothing is forced

Drive-thru

The same order flow, adapted to a car. Built after a restaurant asked for it rather than designed in a vacuum.

  • A QR at the speaker or the window
  • An optional car number on the ticket so staff know whose order it is
  • Pay at the window, if that is the way you already run it
  • Orders join the same kitchen queue as everything else

What you learn

Dine-in has always been the least measured part of a restaurant. Not any more.

  • Spend and turn time per table
  • Which sections of the room actually earn
  • Peak covers by hour and by day
  • Dine-in revenue separated from pickup and delivery in every report

The business outcome

What changes on the floor

The two waits that decide how a meal ends both go away, and the check goes up because a second round is a tap rather than an interruption. Meanwhile every dine-in guest who pays leaves you a contactable customer record — something a table has never produced before.

removed from every cover
Two waitsremoved from every cover
however many phones are on the table
One tabhowever many phones are on the table
become customers you can reach again
Dine-in guestsbecome customers you can reach again

Questions

The things owners actually ask

Something not here? Ask us directly — you will get a straight answer, including when the answer is no.

  • No. Scanning the code opens your menu in the phone's browser. There is no app, no account and nothing to install — which is the only reason table QR ordering works at all.

Works with the rest of the platform

Own your orders, your guests and your margin.

Fourteen days, everything switched on, and we set it up with you. If it does not fit your restaurant, walk away.

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