The menu card was not at my table.
I had to go and take one from another table. And once I had it, I still could not see what any of the drinks actually look like. I want to see a drink before I buy it. Seeing it is what makes me order it.
- / TABLE QR & NFC
- / GUEST WIFI
- / LIVE ORDERS
One sticker on the corner of the table. The guest taps or scans, gets the WiFi, reads the menu with photographs, and orders from where they are sitting.
A proposal for BRWN, Versova
Scan. Order.
Scan. Order.
Served.
Sitting in your cafe today
Three things happened to me as a customer. None of them are complaints. All three have the same fix.
What I noticed
at your table.
Plug points everywhere, no WiFi.
Every seat has power for a laptop, which people notice and appreciate. But there is no WiFi name or password anywhere. I asked at the counter and your team had to go looking for it.
Both of those are one sticker.
A QR with an NFC tag in it, stuck on the corner of every table. Tap a phone on it or scan it. Number, code, online. The menu opens with photographs, and they order without moving.
One sticker per table
Tap or scan. The sticker already knows which table it is on, so the order arrives at the counter with the table number on it.
Tap the phone.
That is the setup.
The NFC tag means most guests never open a camera. They rest the phone on the sticker and the page opens by itself. The QR printed on the same sticker covers every other phone.
The part that pays for itself
They give you the number because they want the WiFi. You are not asking for it, you are trading it.
Every guest
leaves a number.
Every person who connects is saved with their number, how many times they have visited, and which table they sat at. That is a real, opted-in list of people who have actually been inside BRWN, built without anyone at the counter typing a thing.
Use it for a WhatsApp campaign when a new roast lands, for a slow Tuesday, for anything. This is the asset most cafes never collect.
Back to the first problem
A card with names and prices asks the guest to imagine the drink. A photograph sells it.
They see it
before they buy it.
All 50 drinks from your card, every one with a photograph, a tasting line and a price. Signatures carry an Elevated tag. Anything you run out of goes grey with one toggle at the counter, and it greys out on every phone in the room within seconds.
No printing, no laminating, no card that has walked to another table. When a price changes you change it once.
Payments, in plain language
No Razorpay. No payment gateway at all. The money goes from your guest straight into your bank account.
Nothing sits
between you
and the money.
A gateway in the middle
- The guest pays the gateway, not you.
- The gateway keeps roughly 2% plus GST of every single order.
- Your money reaches your bank in two working days, not today.
- KYC, paperwork, an account you do not control, and a support queue when something breaks.
- On ₹4,00,000 of card and UPI orders a month, that is around ₹9,400 gone. Every month.
Straight to your UPI
- The guest pays your own UPI ID from any UPI app.
- You keep 100%. There is no percentage, because there is no middleman.
- The money is in your account instantly, the same as any UPI transfer you already take.
- No KYC with anyone new, no gateway account, nothing to renew.
- That ₹9,400 a month stays with BRWN.
The one clever bit
There is a reason cafes normally cannot do this. Here is the problem, and here is how we solve it.
The problem
If four tables all pay you ₹349 by UPI in the same ten minutes, your phone shows four identical alerts. You cannot tell which payment belongs to which order. That confusion is the entire reason people pay a gateway.
The solution
Every order is given its own unique paise. Order 04 is not ₹349.00, it is ₹349.04. Order 28 is ₹888.28. No two open orders ever ask for the same amount, so the moment the money lands the counter knows exactly whose it is.
The guest never thinks about it. They scan, their app is pre-filled with the exact amount, they press pay. Nothing to type, nothing to get wrong.
The guest chooses
Nobody is forced online. The counter stays exactly as it is for anyone who prefers it.
Pay from the seat,
or at the counter.
Two buttons on the order screen. Pay at the counter sends the order to the bar straight away and they settle on the way out, exactly like today. Pay now by UPI shows the QR with the exact amount and the money reaches you before the drink is made.
The invoice
The bill lives in the app. Every line, every add on, the total and the payment status, on their phone the moment they order and still there after they leave. No printed slip unless someone asks for one, and no thermal roll to reorder.
Live at the counter
One screen behind the bar. Orders land on it the second a guest presses send.
Watch it
land.
New, on the bar, at the table. Your team moves a ticket with one tap and the guest watches it move on their own phone from their seat. Nobody has to come and ask how long it will be.
Mark a drink sold out and it greys out on every table instantly. Message a guest on WhatsApp on the number they already gave you. Runs on any phone, tablet or laptop you already own.
What it costs to run
There is no monthly software bill and no per-order cut, because the whole thing is built to avoid both.
Zero per month.
Zero per order.
0%taken from any order. No gateway, so nothing to take a cut.
₹0monthly software fee. No subscription, no per-seat licence.
1sticker per table. Printed and laminated once, and that is the hardware.
~₹9,400kept every month at ₹4L of digital orders, instead of paid away.
One honest note
So there is no surprise later.
What works today,
and what needs
your router.
A web page cannot switch WiFi on by itself. That lives in your router. What you are looking at works standalone right now: the guest gets the network name and password, the menu, ordering and payment.
The day your access point is pointed at this same address, the WiFi becomes properly gated behind it, and nothing here has to be rebuilt. Same page, same sticker.
The SMS gateway for the code is the other switch. Right now the demo shows the code on screen so you can walk the whole flow yourself.