Square for Restaurants 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Square for Restaurants

4.3

(52)

Pricing

Starting at $49.00 per month

About Square for Restaurants

Square for Restaurants is a cloud-based solution designed to help restaurants of all sizes manage menus, tables, orders, payments and other administrative operations via a unified portal. The platform enables organizations to design a personalized website to handle online orders, delivery services and curbside pickups.

Square for Restaurants’ table management functionality lets supervisors customize floor plans, monitor occupancy and organize sitting for bars, dining rooms, and parties using a drag-and-drop interface. Features include discount management, real-time order tracking, multi-device data synchronization, remote device management, order entry and more. Additionally, managers can gain insights into kitchen performance, staff shifts and sales by item, category or payments via reports.

Square for Restaurants supports integration with various third-party applications such as Homebase, TapMango, Deputy, BentoBox, TSheets, and more. It is available for free and on monthly subscriptions and support is extended via email, FAQs and other online measures.

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Square for Restaurants Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $49.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Square Free

$0.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Tap, dip, or swipe processing fee: 2.6% + 15¢
Online processing fee: 3.3% + 30¢
Item and menu management
Pickup and local delivery
Branded online ordering site

Square Plus

$49.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Tap, dip, or swipe processing fee: 2.5% + 15¢
Online processing fee: 2.9% + 30¢
Everything in Square Free
$30/mo. for the Square KDS app per device
$50/mo. for the Square Kiosk app per device
Integrated inventory tracking and close of day reports

Square Premium

$149.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Tap, dip, or swipe processing fee: 2.4% + 15¢
Online processing fee: 2.9% + 30¢
Everything in Square Plus
$20/mo. for the Square KDS app per device
$30/mo. for the Square Kiosk app per device
Coursing and seat management

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Square for Restaurants Features

Popular features found in Restaurant POS
Delivery Management
Electronic Payments
Inventory Management
Loyalty Program
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Online Ordering
Order Entry
Separate Checks
Table Management
Tips Management
More features of Square for Restaurants
Access Controls/Permissions
Billing & Invoicing
Cash Management
Clock In/Out
Cost Management
Credit Card Processing
Customizable Reports
Discount Management
Employee Management
For Bars/Clubs
For Restaurants
Gift Card Management
Inventory Control
Kitchen/Menu Management
Labor Cost Reporting
Mobile Payments
Offline Access
Online Payments
Order Management
Order Processing
Order Tracking
Payment Processing
Point of Sale (POS)
Purchasing & Receiving
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Receipt Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Restaurant POS
Sales Reports
Sales Tax Management
Sales Trend Analysis
Split Checks
Third-Party Integrations
Time Clock

Square for Restaurants Integrations

7shifts

Ottimate

QuickBooks Online

TouchBistro

SalesVu

Xero

See all 22 integrations

Square for Restaurants User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

65%

13%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

3.9

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.2

Elizabeth B.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2021

Square for Restaurants

My experience overall has been positive. I prefer to order where I select what I want and hopefully there is less room for not getting the correct item. It's convenient and saves having to use paper receipts.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Using square is a convenient way to order food and pay your bill at restaurants. Even in group settings you can split the check or have different people add orders to one bill.

Cons:

I think as more restaurants go to a digital menu and checkout process I would assume that new features would be added. There is nothing that sticks out in my mind that we have had issues with.

matthew v.

Verified reviewer

Construction

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2024

Square for restaurants

Great! For parking lot and county fair gives everyone options and equal transactions grounds

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Simple, out of location (parking lot)with all payment options as interior of brick and mortar

Cons:

Fear of multiple transactions and fraud Not sure as to how safe and secure in long run

Yuki D.

Verified reviewer

Hospitality

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

Lost of time and money big impact on small business

Not bad but would be better if square take responsibility when application not working and refund the customers for the lost

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The system himself is not bad, when it is working!

Cons:

The customer service and the way they treat the customer and never refund money

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Square for Restaurants

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The EASE of all of its features is my favorite aspect of the software. You can split checks, do separate checks, etc quickly and efficiently.

Cons:

I have yet to find something about the software that I don't like.

Reasons for switching to Square for Restaurants

We wanted customers to be able to pay at the table.

Sage C.

Verified reviewer

Human Resources

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Easy and quick

Great for my family’s cute little food truck!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I used this when working for my aunts food truck and I was helping them last minute when an employee called in sick, I was thrown in without much training on the system and I quickly figured it out myself. Simple and easy POS for small businesses like the food truck! Can’t complain about the price either!

Cons:

Some connectivity issues, but worked great for the most part.

Verified

Reviewer

Restaurants

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

"Square for Restaurants" is not for Restaurants.

They slapped the words 'For Restaurants' on a product that has not been properly optimized for restaurants. For very small, very simple operation (e.g. coffee shops) it is probably fine. Beyond that steer clear if you are a restaurant. The convenient tech on the backend does not justify to the awful day-today, and utterly useless reporting.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Setup is easy. HR, on-boarding, benefits, payroll, CC processing all built in is very convenient.

Cons:

Unfortunately this is all overshadowed by the day-to-day experience of using the POS for an actual restaurant, especially if you are using a combination of online ordering from a Square website, and in-person dining. Creating new menu items is very tedious, even when duplicating. Drill-down reporting is almost non-existent, stops at the category level. E.g. I have a category called "Beer" that contains 8 different beers. I can see how much gross sales the category does, but I cannot look into the category to see any more detail than that. I have to look at the entire inventory itemized sales report and pick the beers out 1 by 1 to get info on which ones are selling.

Reasons for choosing Square for Restaurants

Convenience.

Brian K.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

Not Ready For Prime Time

All the good things about Square exist with other systems that lack the bad things. They are new to the restaurant space and they are evolving, but they are not there yet.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The user interface is clear and simple. It works perfectly well for our servers.

Cons:

The back of house reporting is a disaster. I’ve never worked with a more complicated, obtuse, confusing reporting function. They say you can customize your reports, but that’s true in only the simplest sense. We can’t customize reports so that all the info we want is in one place. We still need to bounce from report to report to find the data we need. It takes my bookkeeper far longer to reconcile sales to receivables than ever before, and occasionally we spend hours trying to make sense, on the phone with support personnel who also can’t make sense of the reports. Any positive reviews of the reporting functions are from customers that really use the reports seriously or diligently. If you care that your receipts are correct, Square makes it virtually impossible.

Reasons for choosing Square for Restaurants

Their sales pitch was great. There’s just only so much you can learn from a sales pitch. A year in we are still discovering new problems.

Reasons for switching to Square for Restaurants

I’m pretty sure Toast was stealing from us by mid-rounding numbers.

Verified

Reviewer

Restaurants

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

A POS that can keep up with my servers

LOVE this POS. It’s sleek, modern, and up to date with the rest of the community’s technology. It puts me a step above the competition because my POS helps me streamline our productivity in many different ways.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Fully customizable menu and layouts that I’m able to update remotely. This keeps travel costs down and software updates minimal.

Cons:

Even though it has a great interface, my servers aren’t used to this POS because it’s fairly new and there is a learning curve.