Restaurant POS Terminals Market Report 2026

Restaurant POS Terminals Market Overview

• Restaurant POS Terminals market size has reached to $17.4 billion in 2025 • Expected to grow to $26.18 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.4% • Growth Driver: Rising Demand For Quick-Service Restaurants Fuels Growth In The Restaurant Pos Terminal Market • Market Trend: Innovative Solutions For Restaurant Efficiency • Asia-Pacific was the largest region in 2025.

What Is Covered Under Restaurant POS Terminals Market?

A restaurant point of sale system consists of hardware (POS) and software (hospitality point of sale) that controls a sales transaction, including credit card processing, receipt printing, and other functions. Unlike retail or hotel enterprises, restaurant POS systems are created exclusively for the restaurant industry. A modern restaurant POS system can automate sales, labor, and inventory metrics tracking, streamline internal operations, and connect all of the staff needed to keep the restaurant running efficiently. This helps reduce employee turnover, order errors, wait times, and stress levels while increasing sales, profit, and customer happiness. The main types of restaurant POS terminals are fixed POS terminals and mobile POS terminals. Fixed POS terminals refer to the position relative to the viewport, an element with the attribute position fixed always remains in the same location regardless of how far the page is scrolled. The deployment modes involved are on-premises and cloud which are used in the front end and back end used by full-service restaurants (FSR), quick-service restaurants (QSR), institutional full-service restaurants, and other end users.

What Is The Restaurant POS Terminals Market Growth Forecast?

The restaurant pos terminals market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $26.18 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.4%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to integration of ai & iot technologies, increasing adoption of cloud-based pos solutions, growth in mobile ordering & delivery services, rising focus on personalized customer experience, expansion of restaurant networks in emerging markets. Major trends in the forecast period include contactless & mobile payment integration, cloud-based pos analytics, AI-driven order management, inventory & supply chain automation, multi-channel restaurant management.

Global Restaurant POS Terminals Market Segmentation

1) By Type: Fixed POS Terminals, Mobile POS Terminals 2) By Deployment Mode: On-Premise, Cloud 3) By Application: Front End, Back End 4) By End User: Full-Service Restaurant (FSR), Quick Service Restaurant (QSR), Institutional Full-Service Restaurant, Other End Users Subsegments: 1) By Fixed POS Terminals: Traditional POS Systems, Integrated POS Systems, Kiosk POS Terminals 2) By Mobile POS Terminals: Tablet POS Systems, Smartphone POS Applications, Handheld POS Devices

What Is The Driver Of The Restaurant POS Terminals Market?

The growing demand for quick-service restaurants is expected to propel the growth of the restaurant POS terminal market going forward. A quick-service restaurant (QSR), also known as a fast-food restaurant, is a type of restaurant that provides fast, inexpensive food with minimal table service. Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) rely heavily on point-of-sale (POS) terminals as they serve as the central hub for order taking, payment processing, inventory management, and data analysis, ensuring smooth and efficient restaurant management. For instance, in 2024, according to Street Food Expo, a UK-based industry publication, there were over 7,000 street-food trucks operating across the United Kingdom in 2023, with 50% of UK consumers purchasing from a street-food van at least once per week and 64% willing to spend more than the average daily lunch price on street-food offerings. Therefore, the growing demand for quick-service restaurants is driving the growth of the restaurant POS terminal industry.

Key Players In The Global Restaurant POS Terminals Market

Major companies operating in the restaurant pos terminals market are NCR Corporation, Oracle Corporation, PAX Technology, VeriFone Systems Inc., Squirrel Systems Inc., PAR Technology Corporation, TouchBistro Inc., Kounta, Posist Technologies Pvt Ltd, Micros Retail Systems Inc., Lightspeed Management Company LLC, Revel Systems Inc., ShopKeep, Toast Inc, Square (for Restaurants) Ltd, Foodics, Lavu POS, Rezku POS, LINGA rOS, SpotOn Restaurants, Petpooja POS

Global Restaurant POS Terminals Market Trends and Insights

Major companies operating in the restaurant POS terminals market are focused on developing innovative products, such as restaurant POS workstations, to gain a competitive edge in the market. Restaurant POS workstations are specialized computer systems designed to handle restaurants' unique operations and needs. For instance, in June 2023, Oracle Corporation, a US-based computer technology company, launched the MICROS Workstation 8 Series for the retail and hospitality industries. The Workstation 8 Series features a modern, ergonomic design and a 14-inch touchscreen display by an Intel Celeron processor and runs the Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC operating system. The Workstation 8 Series is designed to be a reliable POS solution for retail and hospitality businesses with a user-friendly interface and various features to help businesses improve operations.

What Are Latest Mergers And Acquisitions In The Restaurant POS Terminals Market?

In January 2023, Gofrugal Pvt. Ltd., an India-based technology company, acquired COZY POS for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, Gofrugal aims to help restaurants digitally transform, stay ahead of evolving consumer preferences, and leverage advanced omni-channel ERP solutions. COZY POS is an India-based technology company that specializes in providing point-of-sale software solutions for restaurants, including billing, ordering, inventory, and table management across multiple platforms.

Regional Outlook

Asia-Pacific was the largest region in the restaurant POS terminals market in 2025. The regions covered in this market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa. The countries covered in this market report are Australia; Brazil; China; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Russia; South Korea; UK; USA; Canada; Italy; Spain.

What Defines the Restaurant POS Terminals Market?

The restaurant POS terminals market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing mobile restaurant POS system, traditional POS system, touchscreen POS system, and dedicated server POS system services. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The restaurant POS terminals market also includes sales of touch-screen monitors, credit card readers, customer-facing displays, cash drawers, barcode scanners, receipt printers, and kitchen printers which are used for providing restaurant POS terminal services. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

How is Market Value Defined and Measured?

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified). The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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