Sarur
Sarur puts the rail at the centre: drink tickets, pay-first rounds and table tabs, with the kitchen, dining floor, recipe stock and guest page working from the same live console. Built as an upgraded fork of Zaiqo blended with Nocturne's bar rail engine, Sarur unifies complete bar management with a high-velocity veg and non-veg restaurant POS — eliminating the seams between counter billing, kitchen KDS, and cellar stock.
Unified Hospitality Operations: From Rail to Pass to Ledger
The Bar Rail, First-Class
Drink tickets get their own live board — handle fast pay-first rounds, unpaid table tabs, and a private bar-only beverage menu that never leaks onto the public food ordering site.
Counter to Bill in Seconds
A blisteringly fast touch POS supporting table service, takeaway, QR orders, split bills, comps, refunds, customer wallets, dynamic UPI QR codes, and instant thermal printing.
Food GST & State Liquor VAT Engine
Alcohol is outside GST under Indian tax laws. Sarur automatically computes and splits 5% restaurant food GST and State Excise Liquor VAT on the exact same printed bill and daily reconciliation report — keeping tax ledgers audit-clean without manual math.
Kitchen Display (KDS) & KOT Pass
Orders split automatically at dispatch: drinks route to the bartender rail station, while food items fire to kitchen pass printers and digital KDS screens with line-item cooking notes.
Stock That Knows the Menu
Recipes deduct ingredients automatically as items sell. Pours deplete by the exact 30ml/60ml peg, kitchen ingredients draw down by gram, and low-stock alerts surface before service runs dry.
Veg Only or Full Bar: Set the Shape
Every outlet is different. Choose your menu style and bar configuration: hide non-veg filters for pure-veg kitchens, turn off bar routes for dry dining, or enable full rail and cocktail operations.
Live Guest Ordering Site (/restaurant)
The customer face of the same system: live menu and item availability, pickup checkout, table reservations, banquet enquiries, tiffin plans, customer loyalty points, and digital wallets.
People, Shifts & Payroll
Full staff rota, attendance clock-in, leave approvals, and shift scheduling sit directly beside the kitchen and floor operations — with monthly payroll runs and itemized payslips.
Technical Architecture & Bar Hardware Specs
| Application Architecture | Laravel 11 Full-Stack Core + Livewire/Alpine UI + Redis Queue + Offline Touch POS + Service Worker PWA |
|---|---|
| Rail & Pass Dispatch | Dual-stream routing: Bar Order Tickets (BOT) to bartender screen, Kitchen Order Tickets (KOT) to pass |
| Order Channels | Dine-in Table QR, Touch POS, Takeaway & Pickup, Tiffin Subscriptions, Swiggy/Zomato Webhook Pipeline |
| Hardware Compatibility | Thermal slip printers (ESC/POS via USB, Bluetooth, LAN), touch terminals, barcode scanners, cash drawers |
| Tax & Compliance | Dual-tax split: State Liquor VAT (State Excise) + Restaurant Food GST (5%/18%), FSSAI compliance, HSN/SAC code mapping |
| Multi-Outlet Scaling | Instant outlet switching without losing context, central inventory transfer, and unified owner analytics |
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do restro-bars and pubs choose Sarur over generic restaurant POS like Petpooja?
Standard restaurant POS systems like Petpooja were designed for food billing and treat alcohol as generic menu items. Sarur was engineered specifically for high-volume bars and hybrid dining: it natively separates 5% Food GST from 20%+ State Liquor VAT on a single guest bill, generates Bar Order Tickets (BOT) directly to the rail, tracks liquor inventory down to 30ml/60ml pegs and cocktail recipes, and maintains state excise compliance logs (FL-9/Form 16) that food-first POS platforms cannot handle.
How does Sarur split Restaurant Food GST and State Liquor VAT on the same bill?
Under Indian tax law, alcoholic beverages are outside GST and subject to state-specific VAT (typically 10%–25%) and state excise duty, while food and non-alcoholic items fall under 5% restaurant GST (or 18% with ITC). Sarur automatically isolates food from bar categories, computing and displaying both tax lines clearly on the customer thermal bill and daily reconciliation ledgers without manual calculation.
How does the dual-stream KOT and BOT pass routing work?
When an order is punched on the POS terminal or submitted via guest table QR, Sarur automatically routes drink items to the bartender's Bar Order Ticket (BOT) display screen on the rail, while food items fire instantly to kitchen pass slip printers and digital KDS screens. Both stations can mark items prepared independently.
Can Sarur operate for a pure-vegetarian dining restaurant without a bar?
Yes. Sarur includes back-office operational toggles that let you switch into Pure Veg mode (hiding all non-veg indicators and diet filters) and disable Bar Mode (disabling drink tickets, private bar menus, and liquor tax lines), converting the system into a streamlined dining restaurant POS.
Does the POS work offline during internet outages?
Yes. Engineered as an offline-first Progressive Web App (PWA) with local edge persistence, the POS terminal allows cashiers and captains to take orders, print bills, and collect tender during network blackouts. All offline transactions queue locally and sync with the cloud as soon as connection is restored.
How does cellar inventory tracking handle pegs and cocktail recipes?
Sarur tracks alcohol inventory down to the milliliter. Every time a drink or cocktail is rung up, the exact recipe quantities (such as 30ml/60ml pegs, mixers, and syrups) automatically deduct from the cellar stock ledger, preventing spillage, unrecorded pours, and inventory discrepancies.