Lightspeed Restaurant POS (K) vs Operyx

Imagine upgrading every single aspect of your restaurant with a simple touch. We’re talking quicker service, increased profits and simplified workflows for your front and back of house. Lightspeed Restaurant (K Series) lets you run your entire restaurant via iPad from anywhere. Tailored for pubs, bars, cafes, bakeries, hotels and both casual dining and fine dining restaurants. Lightspeed Restaurant (K Series) is a seamless, intuitive and reliable restaurant management solution trusted by restaurateurs around the world. Menu and floor plan - Create and modify your menu and floor plan in real time. - Multiple adjustable floor plans - Customisable menu - Real-time editing Ordering and payments Go where your customers are and take orders on the spot while they’re being sent directly to the kitchen or the bar. - Tableside ordering by course or by seat - Order sequence suggestions - Mobile service - Takeout and delivery - Accept any payment type or currency - Review and adjust items in bulk Offline mode Internet down? Don't sweat it. Lightspeed Restaurant will continue to process and send orders to the kitchen or bar, and data will sync to your back office once the internet is back up. Thanks to Lightspeed TrueSync serverless technology, your ePOS doesn’t quit. - Uninterrupted service - Fully-featured offline mode - Automatic syncs and backups Reporting and data Get unrestricted access to over 50 detailed reports via iPad, mobile phone or desktop computer. - Sales reports - Product reports - End-of-day reports - User reports - Accounting reports - Mobile reporting Free onboarding and support With Lightspeed Restaurant, you get support whenever you need it. - Training and support - Free onboarding - Phone support - Email and chat support Employee management Manage your employees with a comprehensive suite of tools and integrations available. - Clock in and clock out - Customisable employee permissions - Employee performance reports - Set up individual accounts - Scheduling integrations Multi-store management Whether you’re managing one or multiple locations, Lightspeed Restaurant (K Series) has the tools to streamline how you operate and minimise complexity. - Consolidated multi-store reports - Shared products - Multiple price-lists - Location reporting - Inventory management and transfers - Centralised and localised gift cards - Customer data per location Add ons Choose from a host of add-ons to further boost your restaurant’s productivity and elevate the customer experience. - Lightspeed Delivery - Built-in Xero Integration - Lightspeed Live: mobile reporting application - Kitchen Display System - Customer Facing Display Integrations Our network of over 95 integration partners allows you to tailor your Lightspeed Restaurant ePOS to your business’ specific needs. - Payment terminals - Online reservation tools - Click and collect modules - Hotel property management systems (PMS) - Accounting suites - Business analytics - Employee scheduling - Inventory management software - And more “With a live feed of all transactions from different channels, we can better allocate staff for busy periods and use data to generate reports.” —Timothy Stevenson, CPRESS Juice “A lot of other systems make things so much more complicated than they need to be. The simplicity of Lightspeed just makes running a business that much easier.” —Ben Ryan, Mamma Dough “Lightspeed understood immediately the challenges we were facing. The Back Office is easy to use, and allows us to easily track our sales metrics and KPIs. That helped us stay on top of things during our transition from pop-up to brick and mortar restaurant.” —Seb Shaw, Morty and Bob’s Questions? You can always reach our friendly team of specialists by calling +44 203 695 9599 or by going to our Help Center for helpful tips, training videos and system updates.

Operyx is operational intelligence for independent restaurants. It connects your daily trading data to an intelligence engine that learns your restaurant — delivering morning briefs, forecasts, and Guardian signals that help you make better decisions. Built by a restaurant operator with 30 years of hospitality experience. Live-tested across 200+ weeks of verified trading data. What Operyx does: Morning Brief — Yesterday's numbers, narrative, and today's outlook. Delivered by 7am. One screen, 30 seconds, you know where you stand. Guardian — 20 active signals monitoring your restaurant. Labour running high, covers tracking light, booking velocity dropping — Guardian flags it before you notice. Forecasts — Weather-adjusted, seasonally-calibrated projections for today, this week, and beyond. Met Office hourly data for terrace decisions. Monday Brief — The story of your week. Revenue, covers, EBITDA, year-on-year comparison, emerging patterns. The executive summary your accountant wishes they had. Voice EOD — Close the kitchen, tap the mic, speak. Sixty seconds and the intelligence pipeline has everything it needs. Works in any language. Recon Builder — Revenue, covers, labour reconciliation. Submit and lock — intelligence generates overnight. Year Tracker — Weekly revenue chart with last year comparison, forecast overlay, and pace tracking. Ask Operyx — Ask anything about your business in plain English. How's this week looking? Should I adjust staffing? What's my break-even? Operyx gets smarter every week. The longer you use it, the deeper the pattern memory, the sharper the forecasts, the more valuable the intelligence. At 52 weeks, no competitor can replicate what the system knows about your restaurant. For independent restaurant operators running 1–6 sites in the UK.