Rounds with cooldown between orders, per-person item caps, premium plates with daily quotas, allergies pushed to the kitchen, and one bill per table even when every diner orders from their own phone. Built for sushi AYCE, hot-pot, Asian and grill.
Order in batches with configurable wait.
Daily quota and per-unit surcharge.
Each round tagged R1 / R2 / R3.
One note per table, on every ticket.
All-you-can-eat isn't just "menu without prices". It's a service model with rules: how many dishes per person, how long they wait, what gets charged separately, what happens if food is left over. Mesero implements those rules natively.
Each table orders in batches. When they submit a round, the cooldown timer starts (8 min default, configurable) until they can order again. Prevents flood orders that overwhelm the kitchen.
Configure "10 dishes per person, per round" and the cap auto-adjusts to the actual party size. Table of 4? Cap is 40. Table of 6? Cap is 60. Set it when the table starts the buffet.
Wagyu, toro, oyster: mark a dish as "premium" and apply the rules your menu needs. Per-round cap (max 2 wagyu per round per table), per-unit surcharge, or daily quota that resets at midnight.
It's not a separate module. Reuses the same POS menu, feeds the same kitchen, shares the same customer record and gets paid from the same checkout flow. The difference is buffet rules layered on top of what you already have.
AYCE doesn't have one model. Mesero supports both common patterns.
Classic AYCE: fixed cover × diners. Buffet dishes priced at €0. Drinks and premium plates can carry surcharges. Predictable cheque for the customer, predictable revenue per cover for you.
Customer pays each dish at its menu price, but the per-round cap stops the kitchen from getting overrun. Useful for "set price but ordered" concepts, grills with many cuts, or wide-menu Asian.
Buffet is a service mechanic, not a cuisine type. It works in any restaurant where the operation is "the customer orders until full, within rules".
Things that surface only after a buffet has 50 real services on it — invisible in a 5-minute demo, obvious to any waiter at end of shift.
Prominent red banner on the customer's phone when 10 minutes remain before the time limit. Pushes the final round without a waiter walking the floor.
🔔 button on the customer's phone — for wasabi, water, chopsticks. The table flashes on the POS floor plan. No round needed.
Disclosed on the customer welcome screen. If dishes are left uneaten, staff log them from POS or the Mesero Comandas mobile app (with optional photo) and the per-unit fee auto-adds to the bill.
Phone shows the round in progress: 🍳 Preparing → 🍱 Ready → 🚚 On the way. Calms the wait without staff repeating "it's coming".
Kids free or percentage of the cover. Special banner for large parties — useful for birthdays, company lunches.
Customer menu in Spanish, English, Catalan, Japanese and Chinese. Useful in tourist areas — Barcelona, central Madrid, the coast.
Mesero comes with a 90-day trial that includes all Pro and Enterprise features. Configure cover, an 8-minute cooldown and a couple of premium plates in 5 minutes. If it doesn't fit your operation, walk away — nothing to sign.