Quantic Alternative: The Best Quantic POS Alternatives for Restaurants
The best Quantic POS alternatives for restaurants
Flipdish is the best Quantic alternative for restaurants, takeaways, cafés and multi-location groups in the UK and Ireland. It puts the POS, online ordering, self-service kiosks, delivery management, marketing and AI phone ordering on one platform. You don't just swap the till, you replace the pile of separate systems around it.
Quantic is a tablet-based point-of-sale system for small hospitality and retail businesses. It takes orders, takes payments and gives you simple sales reports. If you're opening your first site, that's often enough. Once the restaurant grows it isn't: Quantic has no native online ordering, only limited multi-location support and very little delivery platform integration.
This guide covers what goes wrong with Quantic as a restaurant scales, what the other systems on the usual shortlist do, and why Flipdish is the one that fixes the problems Quantic leaves open.
Why restaurants move on from Quantic
Quantic handles the basics. People start looking elsewhere when one or more of these gaps begins to cost them money or time.
Online ordering is the first one. Quantic doesn't include a branded ordering website or app. A restaurant without its own ordering channel sends customers to the marketplaces and pays commission on every order, and it never gets the customer's details to use for marketing later.
Running more than one site is the second. Quantic wasn't built to manage a group from a central dashboard, so a menu change or a price update has to be made site by site, and reporting has to be pulled together by hand.
Then there's the kitchen. Quantic has no built-in kitchen display system, which means printed tickets. Paper is slower than a screen and easier to lose or misread, especially when orders are coming in from several channels at once.
Delivery platforms are a daily annoyance. A lot of restaurants have a separate tablet each for Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo, and staff keying orders across from one to another. Quantic doesn't pull those channels together.
Reporting is thin. You get sales summaries, but not a view across channels and sites that tells a group which locations, products and order types are making money.
And nothing happens with customer data. What you collect at the till goes nowhere, and there's no way to get a customer back in between visits.
None of this is exotic. Any restaurant that has moved past a single counter-service site with no delivery needs all of it.
Flipdish: the Quantic alternative built for restaurants
Flipdish is a restaurant technology platform used by independent restaurants, national chains and franchise groups across the UK and Ireland. It replaces Quantic and also every other system a restaurant ends up bolting on.
| Module | What it does |
|---|---|
| Restaurant POS | Counter, table and collection service, with full menu management |
| Online ordering | Branded website and mobile app with direct ordering |
| Self-service kiosks | In-restaurant ordering that shortens queues and lifts average order value |
| Kitchen Display System | Digital kitchen screens in place of printed tickets |
| Order management | Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo orders on a single screen |
| AI Phone Agent | Answers calls and takes orders automatically |
| Marketing and loyalty | SMS campaigns, loyalty programmes, automated promotions |
| Reporting and analytics | Cross-channel, cross-site performance data in one dashboard |
The main difference from Quantic is that every order lands in the same place. Dine-in, takeaway, website, kiosk, delivery platform and phone all come through one system. Nobody switches between devices, and nobody reconciles three sets of figures at the end of the night.
Menu changes work the same way. Change a price at the POS and it updates on the ordering website, the kiosk and the delivery platform menus within minutes. For a group, one change in the central dashboard covers every location.
Customer data from online orders, kiosk purchases and loyalty sign-ups goes into one CRM. The AI Marketing tools use it to spot customers who are drifting away, send re-engagement campaigns and show whether those campaigns worked.
Picture a Friday night. An order comes in on the website, two more arrive on delivery apps, someone rings to place a collection order and the dining room is half full. With Quantic, that's several screens and at least one person copying orders by hand. With Flipdish the kitchen sees one queue, in the order the tickets arrived, whatever channel they came from.
If you currently pay for a POS, a separate online ordering product, delivery tablets and a marketing tool, Flipdish covers all four. Add up the subscriptions, the staff time spent re-keying orders and the cost of keeping the integrations working. For most restaurants that total is higher than the price of one connected platform.
Other systems on the usual shortlist
Restaurants leaving Quantic tend to look at a few other names. None of them replaces the full set of things listed above.
Lightspeed Restaurant is a cloud POS aimed at table-service restaurants, with floor and course management and plenty of third-party integrations. It's built around dine-in. Online ordering is a separate add-on, and multi-site management needs a higher-tier plan. A restaurant that takes a lot of delivery and direct online orders ends up assembling the rest itself.
Square for Restaurants suits small independents, cafés and food trucks that want a simple, low-cost POS, and it ties in with Square's card payments, invoicing and payroll. It's simple on purpose. Multi-location management, delivery platform integration and branded online ordering are limited, so a restaurant adding a second site hits the same walls it hit with Quantic.
Epos Now is a UK-headquartered provider with a large partner marketplace and a flexible hardware range. Online ordering, loyalty and detailed reporting often come as paid add-ons from third-party partners, so the headline subscription isn't the whole bill. Multi-location management exists but is limited.
TouchBistro is a Canadian restaurant POS with table management, menu engineering and an offline mode. The UK and Ireland aren't its main markets. Local support, delivery platform integrations and UK payment processing may be less mature than a UK and Irish provider's.
Flipdish is the only option here that covers the POS, native online ordering, kiosks, kitchen screens, delivery aggregation, marketing and AI phone ordering without add-ons from other vendors.
What to check before you choose
Start with online ordering. If you want it, the ordering website and app should be part of the core product and not a bolt-on from another company. Flipdish includes branded website and app ordering as standard.
Then count your sites. Running more than one location needs centralised menu management, reporting across sites and the ability to push changes from a single dashboard. Quantic can't do this properly. Flipdish was designed for it.
Look at how delivery orders reach your kitchen. If they arrive from Just Eat, Uber Eats or Deliveroo, the POS should take them in automatically. One tablet per platform is slow and people make mistakes with it. Flipdish order management puts every channel on one kitchen screen.
Work out what you spend now. Add up the POS subscription, online ordering fees, delivery tablets, any marketing software and the commission you pay to third parties. One platform often replaces several of those lines at a lower combined cost.
Last, ask about support. You can't migrate a POS in the middle of service. Find out what onboarding looks like, who builds the menu and who picks up the phone when something breaks at 6pm on a Saturday.
Quantic vs Flipdish
| Capability | Flipdish | Quantic |
|---|---|---|
| Counter service POS | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table service POS | ✓ | Limited |
| Online ordering (native) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Branded mobile app | ✓ | ✗ |
| Self-service kiosks | ✓ | ✗ |
| Kitchen Display System | ✓ | ✗ |
| Just Eat / Uber Eats / Deliveroo | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multi-location management | ✓ | Limited |
| Loyalty and marketing | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI phone ordering | ✓ | ✗ |
| Cross-site reporting | ✓ | ✗ |
Making the switch from Quantic
Moving off Quantic is easy to manage if you plan it. The steps run in this order:
- Export your current menu and product data from Quantic.
- Rebuild the menu in Flipdish, including modifiers, variants and allergen information.
- Set up pricing, VAT and payment types.
- Install and test hardware at each location.
- Train your team before go-live.
- Connect your delivery platform accounts.
- Launch with a support contact on hand.
Pick a quiet day for go-live, not a Saturday. Keep the old setup nearby for the first few services, just in case, and drop it once the new one has handled a full week without surprises. Check the menu allergen details line by line before you open. That's the one piece of the rebuild nobody should rush.
Flipdish gives restaurants dedicated onboarding support through all of this, and most go live without any disruption to service. Do the rebuild and the hardware testing before you stop using Quantic, so there's no day when you can't take orders.
If you want to see how Flipdish would work in your restaurant, request a demo. Flipdish account teams work with restaurants of all sizes, from single-site independents to national franchise groups.