Software for food trucks in Dubai
A till that keeps selling when the connection drops, pre-orders from your own site, QR ordering, simple stock and a daily report on your phone. Built for a truck that moves every day.
- STAK Restaurant
- Arabic and English
- AED
STAK in Dubai
Dubai is the largest city in the UAE. Here is what STAK uses for the United Arab Emirates.
- Currency
- UAE dirham (AED)
2 decimal places - VAT
- 5% standard rate
Federal Tax Authority (FTA) - Mandatory registration
- 375,000 AED
annual taxable supplies (reference, confirm with the authority) - Invoices
- Show VAT and feed the VAT return
- Language
- Arabic first, then English
Staff screens in eight languages - Time zone
- Asia/Dubai
The standard VAT rate is 5%, administered by the Federal Tax Authority (FTA). It is applied to every invoice from a rate table kept with its effective dates.
What your food truck gets
Sell
- Counter till, receipts and offline selling
- Modifiers, combos and size ladders
- Floor plan, tables and seat splits
- QR order and pay at the table, split bills
- Reservations and waitlist
- Customer display
- Your own ordering site with zones, slots and pickup, no commission
- Your store on your own domain
- Delivery apps in one queue with payout checks
- Your customers' own installable app: orders, card and bills
Kitchen
- Kitchen screen with a chime and order ageing
- Drinks queue for the bar
- "86" with countdown and ingredient cascade on every channel
- Course pacing, virtual brands and bar variance
- Recipes, food cost and menu engineering
- Café brew desk: dial-in, recipe card and waste
- Stock, suppliers, purchasing and receiving
- Reorder automation, supplier scorecards and markdowns
- Nutrition labels from recipes
Customers
- Customer list and history
- Loyalty points, stamps, tiers and referrals
- Campaigns, segments and journeys on WhatsApp and email
- Google reviews and replies
Team
- Till, kitchen and staff-app logins free
- Shifts, clock-in, leave and tip pools
- Payroll with the bank file and payslips in eight languages
- Auto-rota from sales and live labour cost
- Staff SOS button with an incident log
Money
- Card and local payments through your own payment account
- Owner insights and reports
- Books, VAT and bank matching
- Profit per channel and a self-completing month-end close
Real STAK screens
Screenshots of the app itself for a demo business of this type, with sample data.
Start free, pay when you grow
We suggest starting with Restaurant & Kitchen free forever. With code LAUNCH you add two more apps (for example Online Store or Customers & Marketing) and use all three free for 3 months. Cashiers, waiters, kitchen staff and drivers are free; you only pay for back-office users.
Prices are in Kuwaiti dinars; every detail is on the Pricing.
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Questions people ask
What does STAK do for food trucks in Dubai?
It covers Counter till, receipts and offline selling; Modifiers, combos and size ladders; Floor plan, tables and seat splits; QR order and pay at the table, split bills; Reservations and waitlist and more, all built in and connected to the same customers, stock and books.
Is STAK free for a food truck?
Yes. Restaurant & Kitchen is free forever, and with code LAUNCH you use 3 apps free for 3 months. Paid plans count back-office users only: Standard is KWD 5 a user a month billed yearly (KWD 6.5 monthly) and Custom KWD 10 (KWD 12.5).
How does STAK handle VAT in Dubai?
The standard VAT rate is 5%, administered by the Federal Tax Authority (FTA). It is applied to every invoice from a rate table kept with its effective dates. STAK lists the mandatory registration threshold as 375,000 AED of annual taxable supplies (a reference only; confirm with the authority).
Does STAK support e-invoicing in the UAE?
STAK shows VAT at 5% on invoices and prepares the data for the VAT return. The UAE e-invoicing system (Peppol-based) is not built into STAK today, so check your requirements with your adviser.
Which currency does STAK use in Dubai?
UAE dirham (AED) with 2 decimal places. Every amount is stored as a whole number of the smallest unit, so an invoice and the books never differ by rounding.
Do I need a payment account in the United Arab Emirates?
You connect your own payment account and bank with a provider that serves the United Arab Emirates, so your money goes straight to you; STAK never holds it. The payment methods you can take depend on the provider you choose.
Does it work in Arabic?
Arabic comes first with proper right-to-left layout and English is one tap away. Staff screens run in eight languages, which helps a team of many nationalities in Dubai.
Food trucks in other cities
Other businesses in Dubai
Start STAK Restaurant free
Reserve your free workspace. Any one app is free forever, and 3 apps are free for 3 months with code LAUNCH.
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- Free forever
- 3 apps free for 3 months with code LAUNCH