Stawi Biz

From the table to the kitchen to the bill, without the order pad.

A waiter takes the order on a phone. The kitchen sees it on a screen. The bill closes with cash or M-Pesa, the bottle count matches the pours, and a bill cannot be cancelled without a manager. For restaurants, bars and cafés.

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MGAHAWA · RESTAURANT
Mama Ntilie Grill
Table 4
Juma M.
Open · 48 min3 guests
1 × Nyama choma (1kg)
Cooking
25,000
2 × Chips kavu
Ready
6,000
2 × Coca-Cola 500ml
Served
3,000
3 × Kilimanjaro Lager
Served
10,500
TotalTSh 44,500
Send to kitchen
Close bill

Every order, from the first drink to the last bill.

Tables and waiters

See every table's status and who is serving it. Move a table, merge two, split a bill between friends.

Kitchen screen

Orders reach the kitchen as they are taken — by station, with a timer. Cooks mark them ready; the waiter sees it.

Bar tabs

Open a tab for a customer or a table, add drinks as they are poured, close it when they pay. Happy-hour prices switch on by time.

Recipes and real margins

Cost each dish from its ingredients. When a plate goes out, its ingredients leave stock, and you see what the dish actually earns.

Bottles and pours

Open a bottle and count the tots. The variance report shows what it should have poured against what it did.

Tips, service charge, split bills

Tips and service charge on the bill, mixed payments, and the tip goes to the login that served — not to whoever typed it.

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A waiter cannot cancel a bill alone.

The way money leaves a restaurant is rarely a stolen note. It is a bill that was "cancelled" after the customer paid, a drink that was poured but never rung up, a table that was closed for less. Every cancellation here is a request, and the request is kept whether it was approved or not.

  • Voids need approval. The waiter asks, a manager approves or rejects, with a reason. Both names stay on the record.
  • Every adjustment is signed. Discounts, comps and re-fires carry the login that made them.
  • Mobile money is matched. M-Pesa and Tigo Pesa payments are reconciled against bills per shift. What does not match is listed for you.
MGAHAWA · RESTAURANT
Mama Ntilie Grill
Void requests
1
Bill #218 · Table 718,500
Requested byJuma M. · 20:14ReasonCustomer changed order
Approve
Reject
Earlier tonight
#214 · Table 3 · 12,000
Juma M.
Approved · Neema
#209 · Table 1 · 4,500
Asha K.
Rejected · Neema
#198 · Table 5 · 27,000
Juma M.
Approved · Issa

What is a restaurant management system?

A restaurant management system — or restaurant POS — records every order from the table to the bill: what was ordered, who served it, what the kitchen prepared and how the customer paid. The owner sees sales, costs and cash in one place instead of reconciling order pads at night.

Stawi Biz is a restaurant system built for Tanzanian restaurants, bars and cafés. It runs tables, the kitchen display, bar tabs, table reservations, happy-hour prices and tips, and every void needs an approval, so a bill cannot quietly disappear. The kitchen workflow is optional: a café can run fast checkout at the counter instead.

Who is it for?

  • Restaurants with table service — orders go from the table to the kitchen screen to the bill.
  • Bars and lounges — tabs per customer or table, with happy-hour prices and bottle control.
  • Cafés and fast food — fast checkout at the counter, without the kitchen workflow if you don't need it.
  • Hotels with a restaurant or bar — run it alongside the hotel system, on one login.

Restaurant and bar plans.

Plans are TSh 35,000, TSh 45,000 and TSh 55,000 a month, depending on staff logins, branches and the tools you need. Add a second business type — a hotel, a shop — at half its own price. Every plan starts with 14 days free, no card.

Starter

Add customers, credit and WhatsApp

TSh 35,000/ month
5 staff logins · 1 shop · 50 free SMS a month
Start 14 days free
Includes:
  • A customer book: who buys what, and how often
  • Sell on credit (mkopo) and see who owes you
  • Receipts and alerts on WhatsApp
Most chosen

Professional

Alerts, campaigns and up to five branches

TSh 45,000/ month
15 staff logins · 5 shops · 200 free SMS a month
Start 14 days free
Everything in Starter, plus:
  • See what each cashier sold, and when
  • Debt reminders go out by SMS on their own
  • Alerts when stock goes missing, a product stops earning, a regular stops coming or a debt goes late
  • Ask for today's report on WhatsApp
  • Send offers by SMS or WhatsApp to all your customers, or a group of them
  • Reports as PDF or Excel, to download, print or send
  • Which products, hours and staff make you money
  • Suppliers, purchase orders and what you owe them
  • An online shop your customers order from

Enterprise

No limits, mobile-money collection, training

TSh 55,000/ month
Unlimited staff and shops · 500 free SMS a month
Start 14 days free
Everything in Professional, plus:
  • Collect M-Pesa, Tigo Pesa and Airtel Money in the app, with payment links
  • Priority support on WhatsApp
  • Training for your staff
See every plan and what it includes

Restaurant system questions, answered

What is a restaurant POS system?

Software that takes orders, sends them to the kitchen and records the payment, so every sale reaches the day's report at once.

Does it have a kitchen display?

Yes. Orders appear on a kitchen screen as they are placed, by station. The kitchen workflow is optional — a café can sell at the counter without it.

Can it run bar tabs?

Yes. Open a tab for a customer or a table, add drinks as they are served, and close it when they pay.

Can a waiter cancel an order?

Not alone. Voids and cancellations need an approval and are recorded with the name of the person who made them.

Does it cost dishes from their ingredients?

Yes. Recipe costing uses each dish's ingredients, and selling a dish takes those ingredients from stock, so you see what it costs and what it earns.

Is there a free trial?

Yes — 14 days free on any plan, with no card.

Run one service on it.

One Friday night is enough to see which bills would have gone missing.

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