Brisk Table Kitchen View vs Lightspeed Restaurant

Brisk Table Kitchen View is a cloud kitchen display system that routes restaurant orders to preparation stations. Orders from Brisk Table’s Point of Sale and online ordering systems reach the kitchen terminal in real time. Staff can prioritize orders by order time and view or change item statuses such as New, Cooking, and Cooked. Closed orders can be displayed again, and staff can undo an item’s cooked status or reset it if a plate is dropped or prepared incorrectly. Station routing and order status tracking are supported. The display runs on standard hardware rather than requiring a custom-made unit, and Brisk Table says it works on internet-connected computers, laptops, iPads, tablets, and smartphones. Listed platforms are Android, iOS, and web; offline mode is not available. The free plan is free, with paid plans from $9.99/mo. The maker presents it for restaurants, cafes, and bars, and lists email support at [email protected].

Lightspeed Restaurant is restaurant management software built around a point-of-sale and payments platform. It supports customizable menus, screens and floor plans, with online, tableside and QR-code ordering. Restaurants, hotels and multi-location operators can use the system for operations including inventory, reservations, tables, staff scheduling and sales reporting. The cloud-based POS can keep working offline, saving entered data locally and uploading it when connectivity returns; master-data maintenance and eCloud evaluations still require internet access. Its front end requires the Lightspeed Restaurant iPad app, while the back end can be managed on desktop and iPad. Lightspeed also says the POS can run in a browser on Mac, PC, Apple or Android devices. The Restaurant Integration Hub includes hundreds of third-party integrations, and accounting sync can send sales data to QuickBooks, Xero, Sage and other software. Plans start at $69/mo. Restaurant has no free plan or free trial listed; a demo option is presented instead.