Restaurant POS Kenya

Restaurant POS Kenya — Tables, Kitchen Orders & Split M-Pesa Bills

Run a cafe, eatery or restaurant from the phone behind the counter. Open tables, send orders straight to the kitchen, let each diner pay their own M-Pesa, and keep taking orders even when the wifi cuts out.

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Most restaurants in Kenya still run on a paper order pad and a separate calculator for the bill — or a POS system built for a different market, where a printed KDS terminal in the kitchen and a single group payment are assumed. Neither fits how a Nairobi cafe or a Mombasa nyama choma joint actually works: orders need to reach the kitchen fast, the bill often needs splitting between diners who each pay their own M-Pesa, and the router or wifi at the till is not always reliable, especially during a busy dinner service. AskBiz runs the whole front-of-house and kitchen flow from a phone, with mobile money and offline selling built in from the start rather than bolted on.

Paper pads, one bill, and a wifi router that picks the worst moment to drop

A waiter takes an order by hand, walks it to the kitchen, and hopes it's read correctly. The bill for a table of six gets added up on a phone calculator, and when three of them want to pay their own share by M-Pesa, someone has to do the maths on paper and cross their fingers the numbers match what came in on M-Pesa. Then, on a busy Friday night, the wifi drops for ten minutes and the till software — built assuming a constant connection — stops taking orders altogether, right when the restaurant is fullest and can least afford to stop.

Tables, kitchen and billing on one phone — working even when the network is not

AskBiz turns the phone at the till (or in a waiter's hand) into the whole front-of-house system. Open a table, add covers, and send the order to the kitchen the moment it's rung up — no separate kitchen display terminal to buy, no ticket to hand-write. When the bill comes, split it by item or equally across diners, and each person can pay their own share by M-Pesa, Airtel Money or MTN Mobile Money straight to your number, matched automatically to their portion of the table. And because AskBiz caches the app and queues sales on the device, a dropped wifi connection mid-service doesn't stop you taking orders — everything syncs the moment the connection is back.

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Built for business owners, not data scientists.

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Table & cover management

Open a table, seat the covers, and manage multiple tables at once from a single phone screen.

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Kitchen order routing, no extra hardware

Orders route to the kitchen the moment they are rung up — no separate KDS terminal or printer to buy.

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Split-bill, split M-Pesa

Split the bill by item or equally across diners. Each person can pay their own share by M-Pesa, Airtel or MTN to your number.

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Keeps taking orders when wifi drops

A dropped connection mid-service does not stop the till — orders and sales queue on the phone and sync when signal returns.

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Menu builder with modifiers

Build your menu with categories, extras and swaps, and run daily specials without reprinting a physical menu.

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Food waste tracking

Log wastage by dish and shift, with AI flagging when waste on an item starts creeping above your normal baseline.

How it works

1
Open the till on any phone

No terminal or kitchen hardware to install — AskBiz runs in the browser on the phone you already have.

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Seat a table and take the order

Open the table, add covers, and ring up dishes. The order routes straight to the kitchen.

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Bill and take payment

Split the bill by item or equally, and let each diner pay their own portion by M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, cash or card.

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Review the night

See covers served, revenue per table, top dishes and any waste flags once service is done.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to buy a kitchen display screen?
No. Orders route from the till to the kitchen inside AskBiz itself — you can view them on a phone or tablet in the kitchen. There is no separate KDS hardware to purchase or wire up.
Can each diner pay their own M-Pesa share?
Yes. Split the bill by item or equally across the table, and each diner can pay their own portion by M-Pesa, Airtel Money or MTN Mobile Money to your number, matched to their share of the bill.
What happens if the restaurant wifi drops mid-service?
AskBiz keeps working. A service worker caches the app and an IndexedDB store on the phone queues any orders or sales taken while offline. The moment connectivity returns, everything syncs automatically — no lost orders and no lost sales.
Can I run daily specials and modifiers?
Yes. The menu builder supports categories, modifiers like extras and swaps, and daily specials, so you are not stuck reprinting a physical menu every time something changes.
Does it track food waste?
Yes. You can log wastage by dish and shift, and AI flags it when waste on a particular item rises above what is normal for your kitchen, so it does not go unnoticed for weeks.
Is this only for restaurants, or does it cover cafes and smaller eateries too?
It covers both. A single-till cafe uses the same order-and-bill flow with fewer tables; a larger restaurant uses the same system across more covers and staff, with the option to add multiple branches later.

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Tables, kitchen orders, split M-Pesa bills, and offline selling that keeps working when the wifi doesn't. No hardware to buy.

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