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Food court POS in India: centralised billing, split KOTs, Token Display

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Walk a food court in a metro mall and you already know the gap. The guest wants pizza from one counter and biryani from another. Each stall has its own notepad or a cheap local POS. The court operator — or the guest — is left to add two GST bills, two FSSAI lines, and a payment that never quite matches what the kitchens cooked.

What “proper billing” has been missing

India’s food courts are not a single restaurant and not quite a franchise row. Typical pain: no one bill, KOTs leak across stalls, pickup is shouting, and GST / FSSAI need to stay per stall on one invoice. Generic café POS assumes one kitchen. Food-court operators need centralised billing with many stations.

How QuickKOT runs the court

On Premium or Enterprise, billing model Centralised: one POS at the court counter, many kitchen stations. Categories are pinned to a stall. An order for biryani + pizza splits: MSB only gets biryani; Chicago Delights only gets pizza. The guest still pays once — cash, card, UPI, or a split.

Food court manager ticket in Aqua with all stall stations
Court manager ticket in Aqua: All stations — MSB, Amul, Chicago Delights, GSW, Zorko. One takeaway, token T-07, then Mark served.
Food court stall kitchen ticket in Aqua — MSB biryani only
The stall tablet: MSB kitchen ticket. Chicken Biryani only. Start cooking, mark ready, items picked up.

Station logins see only their kitchen display. The court manager does not mark served until every stall has handed off. That is the opposite of a shared WhatsApp group.

Token Display

Food courts live on tokens, not table numbers. After payment the ticket carries a token (for example T-07). Token Display is the public pickup board: a kitchen appears next to the token when that stall marks items ready. Guests watch one screen instead of three stall TVs.

Food court daily report in Aqua with stall-wise sales
After close: total sales, GST, UPI / card / cash, then stall-wise sales for MSB, Amul, Chicago Delights, GSW, Zorko.

QuickKOT is built as the food court POS with centralised billing in India — the same model hotels use when several restaurants share one guest check. Guests who should not queue at every stall can use the QR menu on the same tickets. After close, stall-wise sales are not the same as paying the vendor — that is vendor payout settlement.

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