Epos Ready: Introduction
We’re excited to announce a new partnership between Play It Green and Epos Ready, who are now facilitating our hospitality sustainability initiative. Together, we’re helping hotels, restaurants, and venues build sustainability, nature repair and social impact into everyday operations.
Through this partnership, every participating business will receive free sustainability education for staff, downloadable policies and Net Zero templates, and access to Play It Green’s signposting service for relevant sustainable products and services. Customers pay an optionally removable one pound on their bill, which funds tree planting, marine restoration, and charity donations. This way, staff gain knowledge, operators gain tools, and customers become active participants in positive change.
Please tell us a little about Epos Ready
Epos Ready Ltd is a UK-based provider of end-to-end EPoS systems and online ordering platforms, serving hospitality and retail businesses. Headquartered in the East Midlands, they partner with
ICRTouch and offer the full suite of EPoS software (TouchPoint, handheld devices, etc.), as well as hardware like touchscreen tills, kitchen screens, kiosks, digital menu boards, loyalty programs, gift cards and vouchers.
They work with businesses of different styles (restaurants, cafes, bars, stadiums, etc.), providing flexible, integrated solutions (online, in-person, remote) with cloud-based business-management tools.
Why is sustainability important to Epos Ready and the hospitality sector?
Efficiency & cost savings: By reducing waste (e.g. via better inventory tracking), using digital rather than paper, and minimising energy usage (for hardware/servers, etc.), there is both environmental benefit and financial benefit.
Customer expectations & reputation: Consumers increasingly care about environmental practices. Businesses in the hospitality industry are more visible and closely scrutinised on aspects such as waste, carbon emissions, and sustainable sourcing. Having sustainable credentials helps attract customers, retain goodwill, and potentially command a premium.
Regulation & risk: Environmental regulations are tightening; being ahead of the curve helps reduce risk (financial, reputational).
Longevity & future-proofing: For Epos Ready, whose business is about providing systems that last, integrating sustainability helps ensure their offerings remain relevant (e.g. low energy usage, modular, upgradeable rather than replace-everything).
Why did Epos Ready decide to partner with Play It Green?
Aligning values: A partner like Play It Green offers a framework for embedding sustainability into operations, which complements Epos Ready’s aim to help businesses run more efficiently and reduce waste. It’s a way to signal commitment to environmental responsibility.
Support for clients: Many hospitality clients are under pressure to reduce carbon footprints, meet sustainability reporting, etc. Through Play It Green, Epos Ready can offer clients tools, guidance, or credentials to help them meet those obligations, adding value to their product offering.
Differentiation in the market: Epos systems are fairly technical and service-heavy, but sustainability is often a differentiator. By partnering with a recognised sustainability organisation, Epos Ready can stand out, appeal to sustainable-minded clients, and possibly win more business.
Practical impact & credibility: Play It Green offers credible frameworks, carbon reporting/net zero plans, etc., which help Epos Ready move beyond just “we try to be green” to something measurable and credible.
What does the future hold for Epos Ready?
Embedding sustainability more deeply in product design: For example, offering hardware that is more energy efficient, more repairable, modular, with longer life, and lower embedded emissions.
More digital/traditional paperless solutions: Expanding features like digital receipts, digital menus, order-at-table apps, etc., to reduce paper and waste.
Sustainability reporting & certifications: Perhaps obtaining certifications (carbon neutral/net zero, or sustainability-related) so clients can see Epos Ready’s credentials. Also, giving clients tools or dashboards to measure their own carbon and environmental impact via the Epos Ready system.
Expanding partnerships & influence: Using the Play It Green partnership as a platform to connect with more sustainability-minded clients, highlight case studies of sustainability in hospitality (or retail), and help drive sector-wide change.
Innovation in integrations & data: Using the data capability of EPoS systems more effectively (e.g. forecasting to reduce waste/food spoilage, better inventory control, smarter energy usage) as both a business benefit and a sustainability gain.
Quotes
Epos Ready Sales Director, Stephen Luicuex
“We’re proud to be working with Play It Green to help bring sustainability to the forefront of hospitality. Our industry thrives on innovation and great customer experiences, and now we can add a meaningful environmental impact to that mix. This partnership gives our clients practical ways to reduce waste, educate their teams, and show customers they care about the planet as much as service.”
Play It Green Co-Founder, Richard Dickson
“I’m thrilled to partner with Epos Ready on this initiative. Hospitality has such a unique opportunity to engage customers and staff in sustainability, but it needs to be simple and transparent. This partnership delivers exactly that…education for teams, tools for operators, and a chance for every customer to make a difference.”
Epos Ready: Wrap Up
This partnership is about making sustainability simple, practical, and rewarding for hospitality. With Epos Ready’s technology and Play It Green’s three-step solution, operators gain the tools and knowledge they need. Staff become more engaged, and customers play a part in something bigger every time they dine or stay.
If you’d like to learn how your business can get involved, reach out to Play It Green or Epos Ready today. Together, we can make every booking, every bill, and every customer experience climate positive.
Join Epos Ready in Taking Sustainable Action
By partnering with Play It Green, you can integrate sustainable action, education, nature restoration and social impact into your life and business operations.
Bring more value to your stakeholders and the planet with our winning formula, reduce, repair and regive!
