A QR on every table and topchan
Guests open the menu on their own phone and order; the order lands on the POS. The QR is printed once and the address never changes. Works in the rain and in the dust.
Tea house (choyxona)
Tea house ordering system: order and call staff straight from the topchan
Plov, shashlik, hookah, a 30-seat family table. Guests open the menu by QR, call the hookah master or the waiter, and settle in cash or via Click. Works with iiko or with laBoard as the POS.
Familiar pains
- A guest on the outdoor topchan spends 10 minutes looking for a waiter. It is loud inside and nobody hears.
- The hookah goes out. The guest calls the waiter, the waiter looks for the hookah master. Fifteen minutes vanish in between.
- On Sunday a family of 40 arrives. The order is on paper and nobody agrees who had what when the bill comes.
- The shashlik is gone but it is still on the menu. Every table has to be told separately.
- The till is a notebook and a calculator. The numbers do not add up at night and the owner does not know whom to trust.
What you get
Hookah master, waiter or bartender
When calling, the guest picks who they need. Hookah master for the hookah, waiter for tea. laWaiter shows calls only from assigned tables: topchan 12 calls, the person assigned to it comes.
A tablet for the big table
For wedding and family tables, laTable: an iPad sits on the table, everyone adds in turn, all in one order. No paper, no arguments over the bill.
Sold out means gone from the menu
A live stop list: the cashier stops the shashlik and it vanishes from QR and tablets at once. With iiko it comes from there; with laBoard the cashier does it in one tap.
Cash and Click alike
Guests request the bill by QR and mark cash, card or online. The cashier closes the check. Payme, Click, UzQR, WLCM are all there. The owner gets every call and payment in Telegram.
laBox looks after the POS computer
laBox is a free agent for the POS computer (Windows or macOS). It installs and updates the apps you enable in the panel: the iiko plugin, laMusic, cameras. If the connection drops or comes back, it tells you right away.
Recommended setup
Recommended setup
01
laQR
A QR code on the table: guests open the menu on their own phone, order and call the waiter.
02laWaiter
The waiter’s phone app: own tables, calls, bill requests, shifts.
03laBoard
The restaurant’s own POS tablet. Runs on the laCafe cloud, no PC required.
04laTable
A tablet on the table: guests order, pay and call the waiter themselves.
05laBox
A free agent for the branch computer. It installs, updates and keeps alive the apps you enable in the panel.
Price example
Monthly cost for a 25-table tea house
15 indoor tables + 10 topchans = 25 QR codes, one branch, about 900 orders a month. Start: 600,000 + 400 extra × 1,200 = UZS 1,080,000, cheaper than Light (1,200,000). In summer the outdoor area opens and you hit 1,300 orders, so Light wins: 1,200,000 + 100 × 1,000 = UZS 1,300,000 (Start would be 1,560,000). QR codes, two laWaiter phones, laBoard and a laTable for the wedding table cost nothing extra.
- ~900 orders: Start + overage — UZS 1,080,000/month
- Summer, ~1,300 orders: Light — UZS 1,300,000/month
- 25 QR codes, laWaiter, laBoard, laTable — unlimited in every package
Questions & answers
How much does a QR menu for a tea house cost?
There is no fee per table or topchan: laQR is in every package and tables are unlimited. The price depends on branches and monthly orders: Start UZS 600,000 (500 orders), Light 1,200,000 (1,200 orders). Going over never stops service; an extra order is 1,200 on Start and 1,000 on Light.
We have no iiko, just a simple till. Will it work?
Yes. laBoard becomes the till: hall view, orders, payments, stop list. Orders from QR and laWaiter land in it. If you add iiko or r_keeper later, we connect them.
There is no Wi-Fi on the outdoor topchans. Does QR work?
Yes. QR opens over the guest's own mobile data; the venue Wi-Fi is not required. A laTable tablet does need the local network, so it belongs indoors.
What if the internet goes down?
laCafe runs in the cloud, so QR and tablet orders wait until the internet is back. If you run iiko or r_keeper, the till keeps working on its own and the cashier enters orders straight into it. laBox tells you when the connection drops and when it returns.
Our guests are older and will not order from a phone
That is fine. The waiter takes the order in laWaiter and it lands on the POS too. Younger guests use QR, older ones call the waiter. Both work at the same table.
Why laCafe and not Dastur-xon or BROS?
A small tea house may be fine with Dastur-xon (from UZS 99,000) or BROS ($15 a month); they are cheap. laCafe differs with staff-type calls (hookah master/waiter), iiko and r_keeper support, table tablets, a site on your own domain, and Yandex Eats and Uzum Tezkor.
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