How Much Does Ziosk Cost?

TL;DR: Super-short answer: it’s custom-built for you based on the goals and objectives you want to achieve. The upside is that tabletop tech typically pays for itself through bigger tickets, faster table turns, higher tips, and better guest data, while alternatives like QR codes quietly cost more than they look. And that’s why we created our Upside Calculator so you can see your financial opportunity for yourself.

If you're researching Ziosk, you're probably trying to answer a simple question:

How much does it cost?

It's a fair ask, and one we hear often.

The short answer is that there isn't one standard price. Not because it’s hidden, but because every restaurant is trying to accomplish something different.

Some operators simply want to offer guests the convenience of paying at the table. Others are focused on getting more from every visit:increasing check averages, growing loyalty, collecting more guest feedback, speeding up service, and finding new ways to generate revenue from every occupied table.

You choose the capabilities that make sense for your restaurant, and your solution is custom built from there.

How Ziosk Pricing Works

Each experience is created around two variables that are unique to your business:

Platform

The platform is the software that powers the guest experience.

Depending on your goals, it can include:

• Pay-at-the-table / pay on-demand
• Payment processors
• Loyalty enrollment and redemption / guest attribution
• Guest feedback and surveys
• Ordering and reordering
• Suggestive selling and promotions
• Marketing campaigns
• Premium games and entertainment
• Advanced analytics
• Edge Intelligence / AI-powered insights

Every restaurant's priorities are different. The platform your guests engage with is tailored to support the goals that matter most today, with the flexibility to activate additional capabilities as your business grows tomorrow.

Hardware

Depending on the experience you want to create, you might choose Ziosk Mini or Drop & Pay™ as guest-facing experiences, or the Pro Server as a handheld for your staff.

Together, the platform and hardware create a solution that's custom designed to help your specific business achieve its goals and objectives.

Comparing Your Options

When restaurants evaluate digital hospitality, they typically compare three or four approaches:

• QR codes
• Server Tablets
• Guest-facing tablets
• Apps

We’ve seen that the best experience is combining the server tablets with guest-facing tablets to give your business a holistic solution that takes care of the team and the guest.

Here’s a quick comparison:

• ‍QR Codes: Lowest cost, but low guest adoption, limited uses, high card processing fee, high fraud possibilities
• ‍Server Tablet: Server assistant. Orders go from tablet to kitchen, payments process in seconds without wasted back and forth to the POS, and servers can spend more time with guests.
• ‍Guest-facing tablets: Guest relationship-builder. Allows guests pay and order on-demand, suggestive selling throughout the meal, loyalty enrollment and redemption, privacy to tip and leave feedback, and premium entertainment.
• ‍Apps: Omnipresent and expensive. Pushing marketing, tracking loyalty, placing orders, and processing payments, but low adoption and not commonly used at the table or as a group experience.

What you want to pay attention to is not just the cost, but the number of opportunities each solution creates while guests are still sitting at the table.

The Costs That Never Show Up on an Invoice

One of the biggest challenges in running a restaurant is that some costs are easy to measure, while others quietly accumulate throughout every shift.

Think about the opportunities that happen every day.

A guest ordering dessert if someone remembered to ask.

A table that's ready to pay but waiting for a server.

A family who would’ve played games while waiting for their food as an easy add on.

A guest joining your loyalty program but not hear about it.

A disappointed customer who leaves without sharing what went wrong.

None of those moments generate an invoice. But each one has an impact on your business.

That's why many operators eventually stop asking only, "What does this technology cost?"

They start asking,

"What opportunities are we missing today?"

What Ziosk Restaurant Partners Have Seen

Restaurant brands using Ziosk have publicly shared measurable results, including:

• +90% guest adoption at the table
• Up to 20% higher dessert sales through automated suggestive selling
• Checkout completed up to five minutes faster, helping improve table turns
• Up to 15% higher tips through on-screen tip prompts
• 10x more loyalty enrollment
• 25-50% higher guest feedback participation
• Reduced payment fraud by allowing guests to keep their cards throughout the transaction
• Minimized processing costs from Card-Present fees

Every restaurant is different, but the pattern is consistent.

The conversation quickly shifts from cost to business impact.

So, How Much Does Ziosk Cost?

The honest answer is that it depends on the experience you want to create.

Building the right solution depends on your goals, which means the investment does too. We want to make sure we’re maximizing the financial opportunity based on your objectives.

That's why we built the Restaurant Upside Calculator.

Instead of estimating the cost of Ziosk, it helps estimate your potential ROI based on your own restaurant.

Using a few sliders, you can see how improvements in areas like upselling, table turns, loyalty participation, and guest engagement could impact your business.

Because at the end of the day, the most important question isn't:

"How much does Ziosk cost?"

It's:

"What could my restaurant gain with the right technology in place?"

Calculate Your Restaurant's Upside