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United Kingdom·36d ago
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Food Truck POS Systems
Problem Existing POS systems (Square, Toast, Lightspeed) are built for fixed-location restaurants and ignore food-truck realities — patchy 4G at outdoor venues, queue displays for festival crowds, HMRC Making Tax Digital compliance with daily sales records, end-of-day cash-vs-card reconciliation across multiple stops, and the per-council street-trading licence rules that change between Hackney, Manchester and Bristol. Most operators duct-tape SumUp + Google Sheets + Instagram for daily location updates. Who feels it Roughly 6,500+ active food trucks across the UK (concentrated in London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh and Brighton) — a £210M industry growing 9% YoY post-2024. MVP hint A single mobile app handling offline-first orders with auto-sync, customer-facing queue display on a tablet, SumUp/Stripe Reader card acceptance, daily VAT-ready sales reports by location, and a public 'where's the truck today' page auto-updated from one-tap GPS, shareable to Instagram Stories in one tap. Why now Post-pandemic food-truck count has doubled in UK cities; cashless adoption hit 91% in 2025; and HMRC's MTD-VAT rollout in April 2026 forces every food truck above £85K turnover into quarterly digital filing they can't afford. Revenue £39/mo per truck, with £15/mo add-ons for multi-truck fleet management, customer SMS-when-ready notifications, and a UK street-food festival lead-gen marketplace. Average UK food truck does £2.5-£7K weekly, so £39/mo is well below pain threshold.