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POS for casual and family dining

Casual dining POS software for family restaurants

Families of six, a hundred-dish menu, breads from the tandoor and a Sunday lunch that fills every table at once. A family restaurant runs on its floor.

Last reviewed 1 Oct 2026

The short answer CountStand is casual dining POS software built around the floor. Every table is a tile that shows whether it is free, running, in the kitchen, billed or paid. Captains order on a phone, each round goes to the kitchen as it is sent, and breads can go to a tandoor station of their own. At the end a bill splits equally or by dish, and an owner or manager can move or merge tables. Single is ₹2,999 a month per outlet, or ₹2,549 paid yearly.
FreePaidFamily roomTandoor1Floor2Tandoor3Half · full4Split
  1. 1FloorEvery table’s status on one floor screen, Free to Paid
  2. 2TandoorRotis and naans go to the tandoor’s own printer
  3. 3Half · fullPortions as variants, each with its own price
  4. 4Split2 to 9 equal shares, adding up to the bill exactly
Fig. 0One family table at a sample family restaurant: from Free on the floor screen to the bill in equal shares.
  • Free → Paidevery table’s status on one floor screen
  • Tandoora station of its own for breads, apart from the kitchen
  • 2 to 9equal shares of one bill, adding up to it exactly
  • Half · fullportions as variants, each with its own price
Fig. 1Six tables at 1:42 pmAkira, Surat · a sample floor

01At a glance

What the floor gets

  • The floor is homeTap a free table to open its bill; tap a running one to pick up where it was.
  • ZonesGround floor, terrace, family room: tables sit in zones, and the header counts how many are occupied.
  • RoundsEach round goes to the kitchen when it is sent, and sent lines are locked against quiet edits.
  • Tandoor stationRotis and naans go to the tandoor’s printer or screen, curries to the main line.
  • Move and mergeAn owner or manager moves a bill to another table or merges two that joined.
  • CoversThe guest count sits on the bill, so the average spend per person is real.

02In detail

What makes a family restaurant different at the till?

The table stays open for an hour or more. A family orders starters, then mains, then breads in two more rounds, then ice cream for the children, and the bill is split three ways at the end. Twenty tables doing that at once on a Sunday is a lot to hold in a captain’s head.

On CountStand the floor is the home screen. Each table’s tile shows its status, its bill and how long it has been running. A captain taps the table, adds the round on a phone and sends it, and the kitchen and the tandoor each get their own ticket.

How does the kitchen keep up with a full floor?

Each item belongs to a station, so breads go to the tandoor and curries to the main line, as tickets with a clock. The kitchen board sorts late tickets first, turns a ticket amber at four minutes and rings it in red at eight. The all-day view tells the tandoor how many naans are still to come.

After a round goes, nobody can quietly edit it: changing a sent dish takes a void with a manager’s PIN, and the void is on record.

How do the bills get settled?

At the table, without a calculator. Split a bill equally, two to nine ways, and the shares add up to it exactly; or move some dishes onto a new bill for the family that wants its own. Settling frees the table for the next family. An owner or manager can move a bill to another table or merge two tables that joined.

03Questions

Questions family restaurants ask

Put the floor on CountStand

Apply with your restaurant’s details. The first 30 days are free once you are invited.

From ₹2,999 a month per outlet, plus GST