Venue operating platform
Licensed per active screen
2TI Cheapito
The menu, the till, the kitchen board and the table QR share one catalogue. Guests scan a link instead of downloading a 12 MB PDF, and you pay for the screens you actually run — not a suite you never use.

The fit
What Cheapito is.
A venue operating platform: catalogue, digital signage, POS, kitchen and fulfilment boards, table QR, waiter handhelds, dispatch and the back office. One tenant-aware core; the modules a venue buys are the ones it runs.
What ships
Commercial shape
Per venue · includes back office + $15 screen credit
Signage player to POS terminal
Buy, rent or seasonal tenancy
Launch packaging. Final scope, tax and terms are confirmed in the quote; no payment is taken on this page.
Where it fits
Same platform, different shift.
The pack decides the modules, the wording and the defaults. A café is not a smaller restaurant, and a pet clinic is not a strange retail store.
Restaurant
Two tills, one pass, four handhelds and a dozen table QR codes. Covers, courses and allergies on the ticket; dispatch for takeaway.
POS $39 · KDS $29 · waiter $19 · QR $19 · dispatch $19
Café & coffee shop
One till, one screen, six tables. Fast menu cards, milk options, no dispatch seat unless delivery is actually switched on.
POS $39 · KDS $29 · QR $19 · signage $15
Pub
Tabs and rounds, two window screens, age-restricted items gated at the till. Menu rotates for match nights and seasons.
POS $39 · KDS $29 · signage $15 ×2
Cloud kitchen
Two kitchen boards and one dispatch seat. No tables, no waiter, no QR — the pack simply does not sell them.
KDS $29 ×2 · dispatch $19
Grocery & department store
An order falls in, an attendant picks and packs it, then a driver is assigned. COD or a weekly courier account, with the delivery fee kept out of store revenue.
POS $39 · pick/pack board · dispatch $19
Pet store, vet, hotel
Retail shelf plus services and practitioners. Boarding stays and grooming slots sit next to the till, and the queue screen shows who is next.
POS $39 · queue board $29 · signage $15
Pharmacy & dental
A counter queue for scripts, or a treatment queue with practitioners for a dental clinic. Retail shelf and bookable services sit next to the till.
POS $39 · queue board $29 · signage $15
Reception & staff cafeteria
Lobby signage with announcements and wayfinding; a cafeteria pack with a till and table QR for staff. Runs full-screen on a TV stick.
signage $15 ×2 · cafeteria POS $39
The architectural transformation
Why this exists.
Not a feature list — a cost that repeats every quarter, and the three things that stop it.
The printing and sticker nightmare
Leather-bound menus, laminated price cards and paper shelf tags cost real money every quarter. When costs or currency move, staff cover prices with handwritten stickers. An item sells out and the waiter apologises at the table after the guest has already decided.
Small clinics and shops go further: a flash drive in the back of the TV, playing whatever the built-in photo viewer can shuffle — a hard cut between frames, no schedule, and no way to change a price without walking to the screen with the stick.
Rigid paper creates friction, delays orders, and buys the same artwork again in three months. A USB stick in a TV is the same problem with worse timing.
Spreadsheets, napkins and PDFs
Neighbourhood venues cannot justify enterprise POS licences priced per terminal, so stock lives in a fragile spreadsheet on someone's laptop. Takeaway orders are scribbled on paper. Guests get a 35 MB PDF over WhatsApp that cannot be tapped, searched or updated.
Disconnected files, unsearchable menus, and delivery handoffs nobody can audit.
One catalogue every screen reads
Any TV becomes a signage board over HDMI, full-screen and unattended. Mark a dish sold out in the back office and it drops off the signage rotation and greys out on every table QR menu. Orders reach the kitchen, and dispatch hands the parcel and the fee to the driver in one tap.
No paper reprints, no per-terminal enterprise licence, and a portable JSON catalogue you own.
Six touchpoints
One source of truth.
Six surfaces, one catalogue. The venue buys the ones it runs; the pack decides the defaults.
Digital signage over HDMI
A mini-PC, TV stick or Raspberry Pi into any screen. Full-screen bilingual boards, promotions and a table QR code — no cloud dependency.
Admin & inventory control
Menu, prices, attributes and the 86'd sold-out toggle. Zero-database JSON export, so the catalogue is yours to take.
Cashier & dispatch
Till, tender, bill close, and the order queue. A courier order is handed to the driver over WhatsApp with the item list and total.
Kitchen and fulfilment boards
Kitchen pass: new, preparing, ready, with ticket age. Retail mode turns the same board into pick, pack, hand to courier.
On-table ordering
Guests scan, browse food-first, and order from the table. Sold-out items are greyed out before they try to add them.
Waiter handheld
Table-first order entry on a phone or tablet, one hand, with instant tickets to the kitchen.
Module views
One admin, every terminal.
Captured from the live Cheapito instance. Each screen is a station, not a web page: it fills a tablet, a TV or a counter monitor. Drag inside a frame to see the rest of a longer screen.









Pricing
Pay for screens, not suites.
A venue pays a platform base plus a monthly fee for each active screen. A seat is a registered terminal; disabling it frees the seat at the next renewal.
| Line | What it is | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Platform base | Back-office seat + $15 of screen value, per venue | $99 |
| POS terminal | Till, tender, shift close | $39 |
| Kitchen display | KDS board, or pick/pack board in retail | $29 |
| Table QR | Guest ordering kiosk per table | $19 |
| Waiter handheld | Floor device | $19 |
| Dispatch seat | Delivery assignment and driver handoff | $19 |
| Signage player | Unattended TV or window screen | $15 |
| Extra back-office seat | Owner or manager login | $19 |
A 5-screen venue bundle is $129/month. Annual prepay is two months free. Private deployment is $4,900 one-time with $990/year support. Every new venue starts with a 14-day trial covering signage and one POS seat.
VAT is configuration
Inclusive or exclusive, any label and rate the venue declares. Nothing is assumed from the country.
USD first
Dollar display removes the zeros in high-denomination markets. A second currency appears only if the venue enables it with today's rate.
The lease ends cleanly
Past expiry and grace, paid surfaces close and only the renewal screen stays. A delivered build cannot run forever.
How it runs
Scope. Deploy. Operate.
A solution is a deployment fit, not a binary. We agree the boundary before the build.
Choose the vertical
Restaurant, café, pub, cloud kitchen, retail, pet or corporate. The pack sets modules, wording and defaults.
Separate core from modules
One tenant-aware core; only the modules the venue buys. Catalogue stays a flat file the signage can read.
Meter the seats
Every terminal registers and heartbeats; the invoice follows the registered screens, not a promise.
Questions
The ones that come up.
What happens if the internet drops?
Signage keeps its last published catalogue and the lease carries a grace window, so a screen does not go dark because the line hiccupped.
Do we need a database?
No. The catalogue is a flat file the signage and QR pages read directly, which is why a €150 kiosk can run the window.
Several languages?
Yes — per-venue locales, including right-to-left Arabic, with attribute labels translated across 19 catalogues.
Can we own it?
Yes. Private deployment is a one-time licence with annual support, for groups that need their own infrastructure.
Who owns the delivery fee?
The driver or courier company. The board records the handoff and the settlement mode; the store's revenue never absorbs the fee.
What is included in the trial?
Fourteen days of signage and one POS seat, enough to run a counter and a window before any commitment.
Related surfaces
One portfolio, clear boundaries.
Sovereign Meet is the platform. The other solutions are scoped deployments. Installable desktop apps stay in the Launcher.
Expand through the suite
Bring venue work into the wider business.
Use Operations Desk for the surrounding client and delivery workflow, and LMailer for correspondence. Any exchange with venue records needs a configured, reviewed connection.
