Brindola vs Foodics
Foodics or Brindola for a restaurant in Dubai
Foodics is a cloud restaurant POS and management system from the Gulf, sold in the UAE in bundles from AED 199 a month billed annually, with Foodics Pay, an app marketplace and support around the clock. Brindola runs the whole service on a device in your venue, keeps going when the mall's line drops, and puts stock and several brands in every plan.
In short
- Orders, kitchen screens, payments and the close keep running in the venue however long the line is down.
- Stock and several brands are in every Brindola plan; at Foodics they start at Basic or are add-ons.
- Your bank's card terminal works alongside, with no card fee and no rate tied to the software.
- The UAE tax invoice comes from the terminal, with your TRN and the buyer's.
- Foodics is ahead on integrated card payments, guest ordering, loyalty, accounting, 24/7 support and scale.
Last checked 11 October 2026 · www.foodics.com
Why venues choose Brindola over Foodics
The service does not stop when the line does
One device in your venue serves every terminal, kitchen screen and printer over your own network. When the mall's line drops, orders, payments, the close and the reports carry on, for as long as the outage lasts.
Several brands and the stock in every plan
A dark kitchen running five brands gets brand tabs and catalogs, revenue by brand and channel, and stock with lots and expiry, without an add-on. One order can carry two brands.
A published price, without a demo
Essentials is USD 49 (about AED 180) and Plus USD 99 (about AED 364) a month per venue, and the trial needs no card and no call. Foodics quotes hardware and add-ons after a demo.
Your bank's terminal, no card-rate lock-in
Brindola takes no card fee and works alongside the terminal your bank already gave you, so the rate stays something you negotiate.
The UAE tax invoice from the terminal
Every receipt shows the 5 % VAT with your TRN; the A4 invoice names the company with its TRN and breaks the VAT down by rate.
Your tickets stay in your building
Tickets, guests, payments and margins live in one file on hardware you own. Only the day's totals leave, and only to a backoffice you connect.
Foodics and Brindola, side by side
| Topic | Foodics | Brindola |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A cloud-based POS and restaurant management system on tablets. | A restaurant POS that runs on the venue's own hardware and network. |
| Price | Starter AED 199, Basic AED 375, Advanced AED 556 a month, billed annually; add-ons and hardware quoted after a demo. | Stronger here: About AED 180 (one device) or AED 364 (up to eight) a month per venue, charged as USD 49 or 99; a year costs ten months. |
| Without the internet | Not described; the product is cloud-based. | Stronger here: Orders, kitchen, payments, the close and reports all run in the venue, for as long as the outage lasts. |
| Where the data lives | In Foodics's cloud, reached from anywhere. | Stronger here: On the main device in your venue, in one file you can back up. Only the day's totals leave. |
| Card payments | Stronger here: Foodics Pay, integrated, with Network International, on a PAX D190. | Alongside any bank's terminal; the amount keyed in, its receipt number recorded. No card fee. |
| UAE tax invoices | Not described on the UAE pages; Foodics Accounting states Saudi (ZATCA) compliance. | Stronger here: 5 % VAT and your TRN on every receipt; A4 company invoices with the buyer's TRN. |
| Delivery platforms | Stronger here: Delivery aggregators in Advanced or as an add-on; Noon Food and Careem in the marketplace. | talabat and Deliveroo coming soon, onto the kitchen screen. |
| Kitchen | Single or multi-station kitchen display, times per station. | Kitchen screens by station, a pass view, times in percentiles. |
| Several brands | Cloud kitchen (multi-brand) as an add-on. | Stronger here: In every plan, with reporting by brand and channel. |
| Stock | Inventory across branches, in Basic and above or as an add-on. | In every plan: lots, expiry, stocktakes, supplier orders, item margins. |
| Guests | Stronger here: Pay at Table, self ordering, online ordering, loyalty, gift cards, coupons. | A kiosk paid at the counter, a customer display, bookings that become orders. No QR ordering or loyalty. |
| Accounting | Stronger here: Xero, QuickBooks Online and Odoo; Foodics Accounting. | The daily close to the backoffice you choose; no accounting link. |
| Support | Stronger here: 24/7 in Arabic and English, with a UAE number. | No round-the-clock line. |
| Languages | Arabic and English. | Arabic and English, with screen, receipt and guest display each set separately. |
What Foodics has that Brindola doesn't
- Support around the clock
- 24/7 in Arabic and English, a UAE number, and an account manager for Foodics Pay customers.
- Card payments built in
- Foodics Pay takes cards and wallets on a PAX D190, with Network International, so nobody keys an amount twice. Brindola works alongside your bank's terminal.
- A marketplace of more than sixty apps
- Xero, QuickBooks Online and Odoo, Noon Food and Careem, and BI, ERP and loyalty tools.
- Guests order and pay on their own
- Pay at Table by QR, self ordering, an online ordering website, a waiter app that takes payment, and a notifier that tells guests when to collect. Brindola's kiosk takes the order and the guest pays at the counter.
- Loyalty, gift cards, coupons and promotions
- Gift cards, coupons and promotions in Basic, loyalty in Advanced or as an add-on.
- Accounting, a call centre and capital
- Foodics Accounting with B2B invoicing and payroll, a cloud call centre for phone orders, and Foodics Capital funding.
- Scale in the region
- Foodics says more than 40,000 restaurants use it.
Choose Foodics if…
…you want one Gulf vendor for the POS, card payments, guest ordering, loyalty, accounting and funding, with support you can ring around the clock in Arabic or English.
Choose Brindola if…
…a dead line must not stop a single order, you run several brands from one kitchen, you want stock and kitchen screens without add-ons, and your ticket and guest data should stay in your own building.
Try Brindola on your own hardware
Fourteen days on the full Plus plan, no card and no account. Load your catalog, pull the network cable, and keep serving.
The Foodics pages we read
- www.foodics.com/foodics-pricing-uae — 2026-10-11
- www.foodics.com/rms-uae — 2026-10-11
- www.foodics.com/pay-uae — 2026-10-11
- www.foodics.com/en-ae — 2026-10-11
- www.foodics.com/marketplace — 2026-10-11
- www.foodics.com/kitchen-display-screen — 2026-10-11
- www.foodics.com/accounting-for-restaurants — 2026-10-11
- www.foodics.com/waiter-app — 2026-10-11
Foodics is a trademark of its owner, which is not affiliated with Brindola.