Quick Answer
Both platforms have real, mature restaurant capabilities, this isn't a case of one having features and the other having none. Openbravo's restaurant POS is purpose-built for multi-location Quick Service and Fast Casual Restaurant (QSR) chains, with strong menu/pricing flexibility and cloud-based, offline-resilient scalability. Odoo's Point of Sale restaurant mode covers full-service dining with floor plans, kitchen display, course management, and bill splitting, integrated with the rest of Odoo's back office.
Openbravo for Restaurants: Built for Scaling QSR Chains
Openbravo's restaurant offering has two layers: the original Restaurant Management module (table configuration, kitchen printers, order-to-table assignment) and a newer, purpose-built Quick Service POS launched specifically for multi-location QSR and Fast Casual chains.
Core restaurant features:
- Table layout and floor plan configuration matching your physical restaurant
- Orders sent to kitchen printers, with products flagged as "sent to kitchen"
- Table reassignment and table combining for parties that grow or move
- Order splitting and payment sharing among guests
QSR-specific features (multi-location chains):
- Manage all restaurant locations from a single point, reducing time to open new sites
- Cloud-based and offline-resilient, avoiding local restaurant servers and service interruptions
- Flexible menu and pricing engine: group products into menus, configure product modifiers with or without extra cost, set different prices/taxes by sales area or delivery mode
- Limited-time and happy-hour offer management, pushed centrally to all locations
- System-guided cash opening/closing for consistent cash control
- Embedded reporting and dashboards from the back office and each POS terminal
- A dedicated Kitchen Display module (Openbravo WebKDS) for digital order routing
Odoo for Restaurants: Full-Service Table and Course Management
Odoo's restaurant capability lives inside its Point of Sale app, enable "Is a Bar/Restaurant" in POS settings, and a set of restaurant-specific tools activates.
- Floor plan and table management: create multiple floors, assign tables with seat counts, shapes, colors, and dimensions
- Kitchen/bar communication: orders sent to preparation printers or a Kitchen Display System, with automatic workflow-stage progression based on preparation time (Enterprise)
- Course management: send appetizers, mains, and desserts to the kitchen in sequence
- Bill splitting: select specific products or guests, process partial payments, or transfer items between tables
- Bill printing: print the bill in advance of payment
- Tips collection: built into the payment flow
- Flexible taxes: different rates for eat-in vs takeaway automatically
- Self-Ordering: customers order and pay at their own pace from the table, with custom notes
- Table booking/reservations: tied directly to the floor plan
Because this is the same Odoo POS used for retail, a restaurant running Odoo also gets full back-office integration: ingredient-level inventory consumption via Manufacturing/BOM, accounting, and multi-location reporting in one system.
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Capability | Openbravo | Odoo |
|---|---|---|
| Floor plan / table management | Native | Native |
| Kitchen display system | Native (WebKDS) | Native (KDS, Enterprise for automated staging) |
| Bill splitting | Native | Native, granular by product/guest |
| Course sequencing | Not a named feature | Native |
| Self-ordering | Via broader OMS integration | Native, dedicated feature |
| Multi-location QSR menu control | Native core strength | Supported via pricelists/fiscal positions |
| Ingredient-level recipe tracking | Via separate Restaurant Operations tools | Native, via Manufacturing BOM |
Which Should You Choose?
If you're scaling a quick-service or fast-casual chain across many locations and your priorities are centralized menu/pricing control, fast rollout, and offline resilience, Openbravo's Quick Service POS is purpose-built for that. If you're running a full-service restaurant or bar where table turns, course timing, bill splitting by guest, and tight back-office integration matter most, Odoo's restaurant POS gives you that granularity natively.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Odoo support course management?
Yes, Odoo POS supports assigning products to courses so appetizers, mains, and desserts are sent to the kitchen in sequence.
Can Openbravo run offline if internet drops mid-shift?
Yes, Openbravo's cloud-based restaurant POS is explicitly engineered to be offline-resilient.
Which platform is better for a single independent restaurant?
Odoo's restaurant POS, with granular table/course/bill-splitting tools plus native back-office integration, tends to suit a single full-service restaurant well.
Does either platform support self-ordering for customers?
Odoo has a dedicated Self-Ordering feature. Openbravo supports customer-facing ordering through its broader Order Management System and online ordering integrations.
Deciding between a QSR-focused rollout and a full-service restaurant setup? Contact RAWN Technologies.