Closed for the season? Pause your screens. $0.

A screen you have switched off costs you $0, for as long as you are closed, whether you pay monthly or yearly.

2 Smash burger

no onion

add bacon

1 Fries

An arm passes a paper-wrapped sandwich from a food truck window at dusk.

The pause

One button in your account. The screen stops billing. Your layout, your routing, your menu setup, all still there in the spring. Turn it back on the morning you open and start the season where you left off.

No pause fee. No limit. Nobody on the phone asking why.

The MiniRestaurants console with “Manage this screen” expanded on a screen row: a rename field above, then the pause section with its explanation and its Pause button, then the retire form below it. — The actual pause button, in the MiniRestaurants web console, captured in a desktop browser.

The console screen list before the pause: the counter screen is marked ONLINE, and the line above the list reads “5 paid seats in use. Guest trackers, paused screens and retired screens do not use one.” — Before. The seat count the bill is worked out from reads five, captured in a desktop browser on the console screen list.

The same console screen list after pressing pause: the counter screen is marked PAUSED, a line reads that it is paused and costs $0 with every setting kept, and the seat line now reads “4 paid seats in use.” — After, one press later. The same screen reads PAUSED and costs $0, and the seat count reads four, captured in a desktop browser on the console screen list.

Built for a truck.

One tablet is enough. A truck does not need four screens and should not pay for four.
It works on a hotspot, and it keeps working when the hotspot does not. Orders already on the screen stay on the screen. Every bump is recorded and syncs when you have signal again.
No contract, no minimum term, no termination fee.
Nothing to install in the truck. No box, no wiring, no technician.

If you cook the whole plate yourself down one line, one screen at the pass is the whole layout.

What a season costs.

A five-month season on one screen, ours against a yearly-billed plan
System	One screen, five months open	Where that number came from
MiniRestaurants (that is us)	$99.95 for the year $19.99 per screen for the five months you are open, and $0 for the seven you are not. Pause it yourself, from your account, as many times as you like.	Our own price, published on our pricing page.
Fresh KDS	$192 for the year Their yearly-billed plan is $16 per screen each month, and it is billed for all twelve. The twelve-month total is our arithmetic on their number, not a figure they publish. A closed truck is still a paid screen.	Read from fresh.technology, their own published page. Checked 19 September 2026. They print it as: “Fresh KDS is priced per screen. Essentials is $20 per screen each month, or $16 per screen billed yearly.”

A five-month season on one screen, ours against a yearly-billed plan

MiniRestaurants (that is us)

One screen, five months open: $99.95 for the year $19.99 per screen for the five months you are open, and $0 for the seven you are not. Pause it yourself, from your account, as many times as you like.
Where that number came from: Our own price, published on our pricing page.

Fresh KDS

One screen, five months open: $192 for the year Their yearly-billed plan is $16 per screen each month, and it is billed for all twelve. The twelve-month total is our arithmetic on their number, not a figure they publish. A closed truck is still a paid screen.
Where that number came from: Read from fresh.technology, their own published page. Checked 19 September 2026. They print it as: “Fresh KDS is priced per screen. Essentials is $20 per screen each month, or $16 per screen billed yearly.”

One competitor, because theirs is the only yearly-billed price we could read on a published page of their own. The full comparison lists the ones we could not, and says so in those words.

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