Two chefs working the line in an open restaurant kitchen

2 hrs

To a callback from a human

01Arkansas restaurants

The point of sale system your dining room actually needs

We build your menu before the hardware ships, we stand in your dining room on go live night, and we do not leave until the skeptics on your staff are believers.

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A restaurant point of sale system is the till, the kitchen printer, the card reader and the reporting, working as one. Choosing one badly costs far more than the hardware, because payment processing is the real bill and it arrives every month for years.

Most of what goes wrong is not the software. It is a menu that was never programmed properly, a tax group that was set up wrong for your city, and nobody standing in the room the night it goes live.

Those are the three things we take off your plate, and they are the three things a box shipped from out of state can never cover.

Processing fees usually cost a restaurant several times more than the software does. Compare effective rates, not sticker prices.

Judd AlsupArkansas team lead

“We are not mosquitoes. You will not be swatting us away. But we are not disappearing after the install either.”

Contactless payment on a counter point of sale terminal

Before

Your menu is programmed before the hardware ships

02Systems

What we install, and what each one is genuinely good at

We sell two platforms and we publish the weaknesses of both. If neither fits your restaurant, we would rather tell you on the first call than sell you the wrong box.

01Shift4 DineRenamed from SkyTab in May 2026. Online ordering, QR order and pay, reservations and loyalty are listed as included rather than sold as add ons.Read

02CloverFamiliar hardware, a large app market, and a well documented set of trade offs on hardware ownership you should read before you sign.Read

03Handheld at the tableOrder and pay without walking back to a station. The change that most often shows up in table turns.Read

04Online orderingYour own ordering channel, so a third party marketplace is not the only way guests reach you.Read

03The tax trap

What your restaurant actually charges, city by city

Arkansas stacks hospitality taxes and mixed drink taxes differently in every city. Run one tax group across the whole ticket and you are either overcharging your guests or short at filing.

Combined rates on a restaurant ticket
City	Prepared food	Mixed drink	The trap
Little Rock	10.625%	32.625%	The 2% hospitality tax applies to food and not to mixed drinks
Little Rock private clubs	10.625%	27.625%	City rate halves, membership has to be tracked
Fayetteville	11.75%	16.75%	The supplemental beverage tax excludes beer and wine under 5% ABW
Fayetteville, beer and wine	11.75%	11.75%	Under 5% alcohol by weight, taxed as prepared food

Rates from the City of Little Rock published tax rate sheet, the City of Fayetteville sales tax page and Arkansas DFA, checked 29 July 2026. General guidance, not tax advice. Confirm with your accountant.

Read the Arkansas rules

04By restaurant type

Your restaurant is not a restaurant. It is your restaurant.

A taproom and a pizza shop need almost nothing in common from a POS. These pages cover what actually changes.

Server with a notepad ready to take an order

Full serviceCoursing, table turns, tip pooling

Freshly baked pizzas on a kitchen counter

Quick serviceLine speed, combos, kiosk ordering

Bartender mixing cocktails behind a well stocked bar

Bars and nightclubsTabs, two tax groups, pre auth

Chef sliding a pizza into a traditional oven in a pizzeria kitchen

PizzaHalf and half pricing, delivery dispatch

Close up of a coffee station on a counter

Coffee shopsModifiers, speed, loyalty

Food trucksOffline mode, one terminal, no counter

Breweries and taproomsPours, tabs, retail cans to go

Meat cooking over an open fire on a barbecue grill

BarbecueSold out items, by the pound, catering

05How it goes

Five steps, and you are not doing any of them alone

Most POS companies drop a box at your door and email you a login. That is where the horror stories start. Here is what the first three weeks look like with us.

01ConversationWe ask what is actually hurting before anyone pitches you anything.45 min

02Menu programmingEvery item, category, modifier, combo and tax group built on our end first.We do it

03InstallationWe show up. You will not be watching a tutorial at midnight.In person

04Go live nightGrand opening or a mid service switchover, we are standing there.On site

05The week afterThe week the questions actually start is the week most vendors have moved on.Still here

Independent cafe owner standing in her own dining room

2 hrs

To a callback, Monday to Saturday

06Where we work

Arkansas restaurants, county by county

The rate on your ticket and the permit on your wall are both local. These pages cover what changes where.

Little Rock10.625% food, 32.625% mixed drink North Little RockPulaski County, separate city rate Fayetteville11.75% prepared food, HMR plus supplemental SpringdaleWashington and Benton county line RogersBenton County BentonvilleBenton County Fort SmithSebastian County JonesboroCraighead County ConwayFaulkner County Hot SpringsGarland County

2Tax groups on a Little Rock ticket, minimum

Food at 10.625% and mixed drinks at 32.625% on the same check. A system running one rate across the ticket is wrong on every tab.

Read the Arkansas rules

Answers

Questions Arkansas restaurant owners ask

How much does a restaurant POS system cost in Arkansas?

There are four costs, not one: software per terminal per month, hardware, card processing and installation. Processing is by far the largest and it is the one most owners compare last. Our pricing page breaks all four down and explains effective rate, which is the only number worth comparing between two offers.

Do you program the menu, or do I?

We do. Every item, category, modifier, combo and tax group is built on our end before the hardware ships. Handing an owner a box and a login is the single most common reason a new POS goes badly, and it is the part we refuse to skip.

Which POS systems do you sell?

Shift4 Dine, which was called SkyTab until May 2026, and Clover. We also publish honest comparisons against Toast and Square, including the situations where those are the better choice for your restaurant. If we are not the right fit we will say so on the first call.

Will someone actually be there when we go live?

Yes. Grand opening or a mid service switchover, someone from our team is standing in your dining room on go live night. That is the night things break, and it is the night a phone support queue is worth nothing to you.

Why is my bar tab taxed so much higher than food in Little Rock?

Arkansas stacks a state mixed drink tax and an additional mixed drink tax on top of ordinary sales tax, and Little Rock adds its own on restaurant liquor. The 2% hospitality tax applies to prepared food and not to mixed drinks. That is two tax groups on one ticket, and a POS configured with one group gets it wrong.

Can I add a credit card surcharge in Arkansas?

Surcharging card transactions is legal in Arkansas, with conditions set by the card networks including a rate cap, a requirement that it not exceed your cost of acceptance, written notice, and clear disclosure at the point of entry and on the receipt. Debit surcharging is prohibited federally. Cash discounting is a different mechanism and is legal in every state.