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Most Common Restaurants Receipts in UK

UK Restaurant Receipts

 

Now that we support the UK, we decided to compile a list of the most common restaurants and cafes in the UK (Scotland, England, Wales) that provide receipts.  A customer at these establishments often requests a receipt to track expenses and utilize for business expense report purposes.  Receipts provided by these companies will typically have business name, business address, city, region/state, phone number, cost, tax and other details.  In the UK, the cost is expressed in British Pounds (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP) – also known as Sterling.

Most common restaurant receipts for UK:

All Bar One
AMT Coffee
Angus Steakhouse
Ask
Bagel Nash
Beefeater Grill
Bella Italia
Brewers Fayre
Café Rouge
Caffè Nero
Chicken Cottage
Chiquito
Coffee Republic
EasyPizza
EAT
Fine Burger Company
Frankie & Benny’s
Giraffe Restaurants
Gourmet Burger Kitchen
Harry Ramsden’s
Harvester
Hungry Horse
J D Wetherspoon
Las Iguanas
Le Pain Quotidien
Little Chef
Loch Fyne
Millie’s Cookies
Nando’s
North Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
OK Diner
Pret A Manger
Prezzo
Puccino’s
Punch Taverns
S & M Cafe
Scream Pubs
Shakeaway
Slug and Lettuce
Spudulike
Strada
Table Table
Taybarns
The West Cornwall Pasty Company
The York Roast Co
Upper Crust
Veeno
Wagamama
Walkabout
Wimpy
Yates’s
YO! Sushi
Zizzi
Adams, Birmingham, West Midlands
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Mayfair
Alimentum, Cambridge
Alyn Williams at the Westbury, Mayfair
Amaya, Belgravia
Ametsa with Arzak Instruction, Belgravia
AMT Coffee
Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross
Angler (South Place Hotel), Islington
Aniar, Galway
Araki, Mayfair
Arbutus, Soho
Atlantic, Jersey
Barrafina, Soho
Benares, Mayfair
Boath House, Nairn, Highland
Bohemia, (at The Club Hotel & Spa), Jersey
Bon Appetit, Malahide, Dublin
Bonhams, Mayfair
Box Tree, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Braidwoods, Dairy, North Ayrshire
Brasserie Chavot, Mayfair
Butchers Arms, Eldersfield, Worcestershire
Caffe Nero
Campagne, Kilkenny
Carters of Moseley, Birmingham
Casamia, Bristol
Chapter One, Dublin
Chez Bruce, Wandsworth
City Social
Clove Club, Shoreditch
Club Gascon, City of London
Coffee Republic
Costa Coffee
Cross at Kenilworth
Crown at Whitebrook, Monmouth, Whitebrook
Dabbous, Fitzrovia
Dining Room at The Goring, Knightsbridge
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel)
Drakes, Ripley, Surrey
Driftwood, Portscatho, Cornwall
Favorite Chicken
Fera at Claridge’s, Mayfair
Fischer’s at Baslow Hall, Baslow, Derbyshire
Fraiche, Birkenhead, Merseyside
Galvin at Windows (at London Hilton Hotel), Mayfair
Galvin La Chapelle, City
Gidleigh Park, Chagford, Devon
Gordon Ramsay, Chelsea
Gravetye Manor, Sussex
Greenhouse, Mayfair
Gymkhana, Mayfair
Hakkasan, Bloomsbury
Hakkasan, Mayfair
Hambleton Hall, Hambleton, Rutland
Hedone, Chiswick
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, Mayfair
Hibiscus, Mayfair
Hinds Head, Bray, Berkshire
HKK, Hackney, Shoreditch
House (at Cliff House Hotel), Ardmore, Waterford
House of Tides, Newcastle
Isle of Eriska, Argyll and Bute
John’s House, Leicestershire
JSW, Petersfield, Hampshire
Kai, Mayfair
Kinloch Lodge, Isle of Skye
Kitchen Table at Bubbledogs, Bloomsbury
Kitchen W, Kensington & Chelsea
L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Covent Garden
L’Autre Pied, Mayfair
L’Ecrivain, Dublin
L’enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria
L’Ortolan, Shinfield, Berkshire
La Trompette, Chiswick
Lady Helen (Mount Juliet Hotel), Kilkenny, Thomastown
Launceston Place, Kensington
Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Le Gavroche, Mayfair
Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire
Lima, Regents Park
Locanda Locatelli, Marylebone
Lords of the Manor, Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire
Lyle’s, Shoreditch
M&S Café
Manor House Hotel & Golf Club, Castle Combe, Wiltshire
Marcus at The Berkeley, Belgravia
Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond, Balloch West, Dunbartonshire
Martin Wishart, Edinburgh
Michael Wignall at The Latymer, Bagshot, Surrey
Midsummer House, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Morston Hall, Morston, Norfolk
Mr Underhill’s at Dinham Wier, Ludlow, Shropshire
Muffin Break
Murano, Mayfair
Name
Northcote, Langho, Lancashire
Number One (at The Balmoral Hotel), Edinburgh
Ockenden Manor, Cuckfield, West Sussex
Ormer by Shaun Rankin
Outlaw’s at the Capital (Capital Hotel),
Paris House, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Patrick Guilbaud, Dublin
Paul Ainsworth at Number Six, Padstow, Cornwall
Petrus, Belgravia
Pied a Terre, Fitzrovia
Pollen Street Social, Mayfair
Pony & Trap, Chew Magna, Somerset
Portland, Marylebone
Purnell’s, Birmingham, West Midlands
Quilon, Victoria
Raby Hunt, Summerhouse, Darlington
Red Lion Freehouse, East Chisenbury, Wiltshire
Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Restaurant Tristan, Horsham, West Sussex
Resturant Nathan Outlaw, Rock, Cornwall
River Cafe, Hammersmith
Sangster’s, Elie, Fife
Seven Park Place, (at St James’s Hotel and Club) St James
Simon Radley at The Chester Grosvenor, Chester, Cheshire
Simpsons, Birmingham, West Midlands
Sir Charles Napier, Chinnor, Buckinghamshire
Sketch, Mayfair
Social Eating House, Soho
SSP
St John, Clerkenwell
Star Inn, Harome, Yorkshire
Story, Bermondsey
Tamarind, Mayfair
Texture, Marylebone
Thackeray’s, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
The Albannach, Lochinver
The Bath Priory, Bath
The Black Rat, Winchester, Hampshire
The Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
The Cellar, Anstruther
The Checkers, Montgomery, Monmouthshire
The Glasshouse, Kew, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey
The Hand and Flowers, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire
The Harwood Arms, Fulham
The Kitchin, Edinburgh
The Ledbury, Kensington
The Man Behind the Curtain, Leeds
The Masons Arms, Knowstone, Devon
The Neptune, Hunstanton, Norfolk
The Nut Tree, Murcott, Oxfordshire
The Park (at Lucknam Park Hotel), Colerne, Wiltshire
The Pass, Horsham, West Sussex
The Peat Inn, Peat Inn, Fife
The Pipe & Glass Inn, South Dalton, East Yorkshire
The Room in the Elephant, Torquay, Devon
The Royal Oak, Bray-on-Thames, Berkshire
The Samling, Ambleside, Cumbria
The Sportsman, Whistable, Kent
The Square, Mayfair
The Terrace (at the Montague Arms), Beaulieu, Hampshire
The Walnut Tree, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
The Waterside Inn, Bray-on-Thames, Berkshire
The West House, Biddenden, Kent
The Woodspeen, Berkshire
The Yorke Arms, Ramsgill-in-Nidderdale, North Yorkshire
Thornton’s (at The Fitzwilliam Hotel), Dublin
Thorntons Cafes
Treby Arms, Sparkwell, Plymouth
Trishna, Marylebone
Turners, Birmingham, West Midlands
Tyddyn Llan, Llandrillo, Denbighshire
Umu, Mayfair
Whatley Manor, Malmesbury, Wiltshire
Wild Bean Café
Wild Honey, Mayfair
Wilks, Bristol
Yauatcha, Soho
Ynshir Hall, Powys, Machynlleth

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Australia Receipts Available Now

We’re now in Australia!  Need a receipt to / from a popular tourist destination in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth? We’ve got you covered.

You can make taxi receipts, gas receipts, cafe receipts, coffee receipts or any kind of receipt you can possibly imagine.  Customize your receipt using our easy-to-use online receipt generator tool.

Taking a taxi?  Need a taxi receipt? As a rule, the passenger may request a taxi receipt from the driver and the driver must provide a receipt that is legible and contains the following details:

  • signature of the driver
  • number of the taxi
  • driver accreditation number
  • all items which make up the total fare
  • total amount paid
  • payment date
  • driver’s ABN.

Here are the most common tourist attractions in Sydney that travelers may visit and need receipts for:

Sydney Opera House

Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Rocks

Circular Quay

Darling Harbour

Queen Victoria Building

Sydney Tower

Bondi Beach

George Street

Royal Botanic Gardens

Kings Cross

Taronga Zoo

Hyde Park

Art Gallery of New South Wales

St Mary’s Cathedral

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Most popular London Receipts

 

Yes!  We support pounds (£) and Euros.  Cabbies rarely have printed receipts.  They rely on the passenger to request a handwritten receipt and then provide a fairly generic receipt with illegible writing.  Need a receipt for your next trip to London?  Make a taxi receipt to / from any of the following destinations in London with our tool:

Coca-Cola London Eye

SEALIFE London Aquarium

Tower of London

Buckingham Palace

British Museum

National Gallery

London Natural History Museum

Southbank Centre

Tate Modern

Somerset House

 

 

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Gas receipts available now

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Gas, petro, fuel, go-go juice…. whatever you call it, we have you covered on receipt creation.  We just added two new receipt templates: Gas Receipt and Modern Gas Receipt. Each feature the ability to enter the number of gallons of gas and then the cost of gas per gallon. The Gas Receipt style has a “dot matrix” font and is easy to read.  The Modern Gas Receipt utilizes a newer style font and is cleaner and easier to read.

Remember, not all states in the USA tax for gasoline purchases. GasBuddy provides a good chart of those states that chart tax on gasoline. If your state doesn’t have sales tax on gasoline, simply enter ” 0 ” into the Tax field. Tax is a percentage and is multiplied by the cost of gas. For example, enter 5.0 to get 5% tax on $50 of gas. The system will calculate and show $2.50 in tax on the receipt

The request for a gas receipt was based on a suggestion by an ExpressExpress member.  Do you have an idea for another receipt type or any other site improvement you would like to share?  Send us a Comment through our site! We look forward to hearing from you.

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Las Vegas Taxi

Las Vegas has the highest concentration of taxis in the world.  Las Vegas has put together a nice Las Vegas Taxi – TOP 10 list to help visitors understand how their highly regulated taxi system – works.

The city of Las Vegas also provides a useful guide for all passengers.  This guide contains fare rates,  cost estimates, common taxi questions, important Las Vegas taxi facts and a map of the major cacin0 properties.  We’ve linked to the Las Vegas Taxi Rider Information Program below.  It can also be obtained by visiting http://taxi.nv.gov/.

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The current (08-2015) taxi fare rates for Las Vegas are as follows:

Initial Activation of taximeter: $3.50
Each additional 1/12 mile: $0.23 ($2.76 per mile)
Waiting time per hour: $32.40
McCarran Property (each pick up): $2.00
3% Excise tax will be added to all rates and fees

Here are a few Las Vegas taxi facts:

Las Vegas taxi drivers are required to provide a receipt upon request.  If they do not provide a taxi receipt at your request, you can visit http://taxi.nv.gov/ or create a taxi receipt yourself to suit your needs using one of our taxi templates.

Las Vegas taxi rates are some of the highest in the world.    Use a Rate Finder online or on your mobile phone to get an idea of taxi rates from point-to-point.  Or, consider using a Ride Share fare estimator if you plan to use Uber or Lyft services.

Below is an estimate of taxi fares between the McCarran International Airport and the most common hotel properties.

LAS VEGAS DESTINATION APPROXIMATE FARE

FROM AIRPORT

ARIA $20.20
BALLY’S $21.20
BELLAGIO $21.95
CAESAR’S PALACE $21.20
CIRCUS CIRCUS $28.90
COSMOPOLITAN $22.15
THE CROMWELL $19.30
FLAMINGO $19.75
HARRAH’S $21.20
LUXOR $18.25
MANDALAY BAY $20.05
MGM $16.40
MIRAGE $23.65
MONTE CARLO $20.05
PALACE STATION $27.63
PARIS $21.00
RIO $25.35
RIVIERA $26.80
STRATOSPHERE $25.00
THE LINQ $21.68
TREASURE ISLAND $25.75
VENETIAN $26.45
WYNN $22.00
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Faster, Better, Stronger

Work it, make it, do it, makes us
Harder, better, faster, stronger
We’ve spent 4 weeks getting our server migrated from a pokey GoDaddy Shared account to a lighting-fast Linode VPS system.   You can read more about Linode vs GoDaddy here: For the Love of Linode.
Why did we change?  More reasons than we first thought!  We initially needed emails to be sent instantly – instead of in batches every 5, 10 or 20 minutes like GoDaddy likes to do.  We also were tired of outages on GoDaddy that seemed to be happening once or twice a week for anywhere from 2 – 30 minutes.  We noticed through our Pingdom account that these were occurring and then tried to request support from GoDaddy.  GoDaddy’s response was, “this is a shared hosting solution and we have an issue that we’re going to resolve.”  I requested to move off of that particular server and was told that it is not possible.  Goodbye GoDaddy…Hello Linode.
More than, hour, our, never
Ever, after, work is, over
As it turns out, there were probably a few solutions to solve our email problem – the easiest one being to utilize Google Apps for email and then connect to their SMTP server for outgoing mail.
The more difficult one is to establish your own mail server using Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL.  This works fine – except there are all sorts of challenges in getting your mail server to properly send mail and NOT be considered SPAM by other mail servers.  You also need to maintain your own SPAM filters and then run another web system on your VPS to actually display email (Squirrel, CubeMail or others).  This was turning out to be a major science project – and all we wanted to do was send (and receive email).  No thanks… Google Apps is $50 a year and solves all of these problems.
Work it, make it, do it, makes us
Harder, better, faster, stronger
Once we made the transition to Linode, we also decided to clean up some other things.  We improved the user feedback system by implementing UserVoice.  This gives us the ability to quickly respond to user comments/questions quickly and documents the workflow for us.  We’ve built templates within UserVoice to allow instant responses to common issues.  These common issues can also be published as Knowledge Base articles and made available to users on our site.  Try it for yourself and see the improvement.  Our OLD comment form is here.  And the new one can be seen in action on the site.
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
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New Design Launched

We’ve improved our receipt generator interface and made it easier for you to create custom receipts.   You should notice immediately that the site has a new look and feel. Here are some of the other improvements.

  • Easier to select the receipt template and enter the fields needed to generate the receipt
  • Receipt data is saved during your session to allow you to easier change template and retain your receipt information
  • Paypal payment integration has been added to single receipt and membership payment
  • Bitcoin payment integration has been added to single receipt and membership payment
  • Ability to change password
  • Receipts are now attached to the email instead of linked in-line
  • The site is MUCH faster.  We’ve reduced the CSS, Javascript and image sizes in order to greatly speed page load.  We went from 3.5 seconds to 1 second page load time on the landing page!
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New design coming soon…

We’re in the midst of a full site redesign guaranteed to make it easier to create receipts quickly and easily.  We actually crowdsourced the design from 99Designs.com and had an excellent experience throughout the process.  We had 32 designs submitted and we narrowed the field down to 6 finalists.  We liked the simplicity of this designer’s design and the 1-2-3 flow he incorporated into the receipt making process.  Take a look and let us know what you think!

 

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Receipt Maker News

Special Receipt template added!

 

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We have added another receipt style called “Special” – and we think it is very slick.  It allows for point-to-point taxi service receipt generation.   This one is excellent for limo rides, private vehicle transportation, shared ride services or standard taxi or cab ride receipts.

Simply enter the Starting Location and Destination fields – and the map will update with the path.  You still need to click “generate receipt” – in order to get the pricing to render and for the complete receipt to be created.

Please take a look and let us know your thoughts.  If there are any ways we can improve this template or our service, we would love to hear from you.

 

 

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The Best Invoice Makers and Generators of 2015

For this roundup, we tested 12 online invoice services, most of which didn’t make the cut to be included here as the best players in the invoicing game.  Only 7 made the final round where we detailed the features and provided a side-by-side comparison of their services.

 

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invoiced.com onlineinvoices.com invoicehome.com invoice.zoho.com     freeinvoicecreator.com aynax.com invoiceto.me
 
 
                   
Price per month $9.99/month  @ 10k / month  

$29/month @ 25k / month

 

$99/month @ 100k/ month

 $9 / month @ 120 invoices, 12 clients, 12 invoice layouts  

$19.95 / month @ 300 invoices, 30 clients, 30 layouts

$39.95 / month @ unlimited invoices, unlimited clients, unlimited layouts

 $5 / month – Unlimited $15 / month – 500 contacts, 3 users  

$30 / month –  unlimited users, unlimited contacts

      $9.95 / month – 5 clients  

$19.95 / month – 25 clients

 

$29.99 / month – Unlimited clients – 1 staff user

 

$39.99/ month – Unlimited clients – 5 staff users

 $9.95 / monthFREE for 21-days of unlimited use FREE – No paid versions available
Free Version YES – FREE 60-day trail subscription (up to $10k in invoices) YES – 30 invoices per month, watermarked invoices YES – Free up to $1k per month in invoices  YES – 1 User, 5 Customers      YES – 1 Customer  YES YES
Custom Logo  YES – Upload  YES, upload  YES – Upload or existing symbols  YES      YES YES  NO
Number of Invoice Templates  1 – (expert users can modify CSS of template for custom looks)  3 Over 300  7      2  1 NO
Save / Review Invoices YES YES YES YES      YES  YES NO
Languages  English  English  English, French, Spanish, German  English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Swedish      English, Spanish, French  English  English
Login Connectivity  Email  Email  Google, Facebook, Windows, Yahoo, Email  Email      Email  Email  Email
Payment Gateways  Paypal, Stripe  Paypal, Paymate, eWay  PayPal, Authorize.Net, Stripe  Paypal, Paypal Pro, Authorize.net, Stripe, 2Checkout, Braintree, forte, worldpay      Paypal, Stripe, Freshbooks  Paypal  NONE
Payment Types  Credit, Bitcoin, Paypal  Credit, Paypal  Credit, Paypal  Credit, Bitcoin, Paypal      Credit, Paypal  Credit, Paypal  NONE
Email Invoice  YES  YES  YES  YES      YES  YES  NO
Customer Database  YES  YES  YES  YES      YES  YES  NO
Payment Tracking  YES  YES  YES  YES      YES  YES  NO
Secure  YES – 256-bit SSL  NO  YES – 256-bit SSL  YES – 128-bit SSL       YES – 128-bit SSL  YES – 128-bit SSL  NO
Item Inventory  YES  YES  YES  YES      YES  YES NO
Personalized Website for Invoices  YES  YES  NO  YES      YES  NO  NO
Recurring Billing  YES  YES  NO  YES      YES  NO  NO
Reporting  YES  YES  YES YES – extensive      YES  VERY LIMITED  NO
Chasing Reminders  NO  YES  NO  YES      YES  NO NO
Discounts, Promos  YES  NO  NO  YES      YES  YES  NO
Dashboard  YES – Shows billing metrics, Ave time to pay, collections efficiency, recent activity, charting of payments/invoices  YES – Invoice search, client search, overdue invoices, charting of payments/invoices  YES – Lists of invoices, overdue invoices, customers  YES – Total receivables, overdue invoices, top expenses and more      YES  – Total receivables, overdue invoices, top expenses  YES – List of invoices  NO
 Currency  AUS, CAD, CNY,EUR, GBP, INR, JPY, USD, ZAR…many more   AUS, CAD, CNY,EUR, GBP, INR, JPY, USD, ZAR…many more  AUS, CAD, CNY,EUR, GBP, INR, JPY, USD, ZAR…many more  AUS, CAD, CNY,EUR, GBP, INR, JPY, USD, ZAR…many more      AUS, CAD, CNY,EUR, GBP, INR, JPY, USD, ZAR…many more  USD  USD
 Multiple  Organizations  NO  NO  NO  YES      NO  NO  NO
Multiple Users  YES  NO  NO  YES      YES  NO  NO
 
 

 

Here are some additional notes on the online invoicing services we reviewed.

Invoiced.com

  • Smooth navigation. Excellent design.
  • Allows export of invoices to CSV format.
  • Mobile friendly website.

OnlineInvoices.com

  • Complicated setup and administration.  Too many options and settings to choose from.
  • Not secure.  No SSL encryption means your data and customers information is being exposed.

Invoicehome.com

  • Best option for custom template look/feel – with over 100 beautifully designed templates to choose from.
  • Export invoice information to XLS

Zoho.com

  • Nice wizard on startup to gather important info.
  • Smart wizards on each section to guide you through first time use and setup.
  • Professional interface.  Easy to use.
  • CRM connectivity between Zoho CRM system
  • Excellent

Freshbooks.com

  • Login process is a little strange.  You need to login to you own subdomain account only visible from an email that Freshbooks sends you upon sign-up.
  • Excellent Import/Export support of clients, invoices..etc.