Founded and proudly headquartered in Canada, Squirrel enters its 42nd year of empowering the Canadian restaurant industry. At the Restaurants Canada Show 2026 (March 8–10 at The International Centre, Mississauga), Squirrel is excited to showcase the latest innovations in hospitality technology.
Trusted by over half of Canada’s full-service restaurant chains, Squirrel continues to innovate and evolve with the industry. Thanks to valuable customer feedback from our brands and major enhancements to the Squirrel Cloud POS in 2025, visitors to our booth will experience:
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- Faster Onboarding & Easier Cloud Adoption — Get up and running in hours, with intuitive workflows, automatic data migration, and a UI that reduces training time and disruption.
- Higher FOH Efficiency — Optimized order flows, fewer errors, faster ticket times, and less screen time per guest, so staff can focus on service—not system navigation.
- Built‑In Training & Revenue Tools — Visual menu cues, recipe cards, and upsell prompts that improve staff confidence, reduce training friction, and help drive higher average checks.
Front-of-House Efficiency That Elevates Every Shift
Squirrel Cloud is built to remove friction from service, helping teams work faster and more accurately during the busiest hours. With optimized ordering flows, intelligent seat‑level logic, faster ticket handling, and fewer taps per task, servers spend less time on screens and more time engaging guests. The result: smoother shifts, quicker table turns, and consistently better guest experiences powered by tools designed for real restaurant operations.
Training Tools That Build Stronger, More Confident Teams
Squirrel Cloud goes beyond order entry with built‑in training tools that help staff learn faster and deliver better service from day one. Visual menu cues, recipe cards, and embedded upsell prompts give servers the clarity and confidence they need during busy shifts. These tools reduce training friction, support faster proficiency for new hires, and help operators lift average checks with consistent, well‑timed recommendations—all within the same intuitive workflow teams already use.
Squirrel Pay Gateway — A Unified, Squirrel‑Driven Payment Experience
Introducing Squirrel Pay Gateway, a Squirrel‑built payment application that runs directly on modern Canadian payment pinpads. Designed to give restaurants a seamless, consistent, and processor‑agnostic Pay‑at‑Table and Pay‑at‑Counter experience, Squirrel Pay Gateway delivers:
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- Squirrel Pay-at-Table (P@T): Pay‑at‑Table app to find checks and process payments
- Pay-at-Counter Mode (P@C): Fast and flexible front‑counter transactions
- Multi‑Processor Flexibility: Freedom to choose processor, retaining the Squirrel experience
- All Squirrel: No 3rd party accounts, separate relationships, or additional vendors
Squirrel Pay prints customizable receipts, provides a single summary for all server transactions, and works over LTE or Wi‑Fi with no network changes. With the processor’s app handling PCI data, operators get a streamlined, multi‑processor solution without traditional gateway overhead. Squirrel Pay Gateway delivers a modern, flexible payment experience—powered by Squirrel and consistent across processors and locations.
About Squirrel Systems
Squirrel Systems is a leading provider of technology solutions for the hospitality industry. Squirrel revolutionized the industry with the first touchscreen restaurant point-of-sale system and continues to introduce market‑leading innovations to streamline restaurant operations and elevate the guest experience — from table to curb.
Visit www.squirrelsystems.com to learn more.
