Foodics alternative for restaurants: keep the till, add the front door
Foodics is a real POS: more than 40,000 restaurants by their own count, and the system a kitchen actually runs on. This is not a page about replacing it. Foodics Online, the menu page that comes with it, is where the gap is: on the menu-only setting it has no cart and no checkout at all. Put a menu that takes the order in front of the till you already have.
What sits on top of the till
A menu that takes the order
A Foodics Online page in menu-only mode shows the food and stops. Here the diner builds an order, picks a delivery zone, and it lands on a live board, on Plus, at 0% per order.
A menu a person can read
A till stores every size and every crust as its own product. One pizzeria’s Foodics Online page therefore listed 55 entries for 11 pizzas. Here size and crust are modifier groups on one item, which is how a person reads a menu.
Arabic, properly
Full native right-to-left rendering with a real Arabic webfont, free as your base language, with AI translation across 21 languages on Plus.
Loyalty and a customer list
A punch card or a spend milestone with the card in Apple and Google Wallet, on Pro, and a customer list with real phone numbers and order history on Plus.
No integration, and we will say so
There is no Foodics integration here. Orders arrive on your dashboard and get printed or keyed into the till like any phone order. If a two-way sync is what you need, this is not it, and we would rather you knew now.
Free to try alongside
Nothing has to be switched off to see whether this helps. Build the menu free, put it in the bio, and keep the till exactly as it is.
Adding it in three steps
1. Export or photograph the menu
A Foodics export, a PDF, or a photo of the printed card. The AI builder rebuilds it, free.
2. Collapse the POS rows into modifiers
Sizes and crusts become options on one item instead of separate products. This is the part that makes it readable.
3. Turn on ordering
WhatsApp on Free, or a website checkout with zones and an order board on Plus. The till keeps doing what it does.
Foodics Online, and a menu on top of it
| Foodics Online (menu-only) | ala.menu | |
|---|---|---|
| Taking an order | No cart, no checkout on that setting | Cart, checkout and a live order board, on Plus |
| How the menu reads | One row per POS product: every size, every crust | One item with modifier groups |
| Arabic | Not on the menu-only setting | Full native RTL, free as your base language |
| Loyalty | Not on that page | Punch card or spend milestone, on Pro |
| The customer list | In the POS, not on the page | Name, phone and order history, on Plus |
| POS integration | It is the POS | None. Orders are printed or keyed in |
| Price | Part of the POS subscription, from around AED 199 a month | Free to start, paid plans by region |
Foodics compared, answered
Do you integrate with Foodics?
No. There is no Foodics integration in this product, and an order placed here does not appear in your till by itself. Someone prints it or keys it in, exactly as they would a phone order. If a two-way sync is a requirement, we are not the answer today.
Should I drop Foodics?
Not on our account. A POS runs the kitchen, the cash drawer and the reporting, and this does none of that. The argument here is narrower: the page Foodics gives your diners often cannot take an order, and that is a job a menu should do.
Why does my Foodics menu have so many items?
Because a POS stores each sellable variant as its own product. One pizzeria’s Foodics Online page listed 55 entries for its 11 pizzas, one per size and crust combination. Rebuilt here, those become one item with a size group and a crust group.
Can I run both?
Yes, and most restaurants in this position should. The till stays exactly where it is. This is the link in the bio, the QR on the table and the order that arrives without anyone answering a phone.
What does it cost?
Free to start with no card: the menu, the templates, your Page and WhatsApp ordering. Website ordering with a dashboard is Plus; a custom domain, branches and loyalty are Pro. Paid plans are priced by region, so the figure for you is on the pricing page.
Keep the till. Fix the front door.
Send us your Foodics menu and see it rebuilt as something a diner can order from.
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