A QR-first restaurant POS for Regina, from inspection day to game night.

Opening in Regina means a provincial food licence, inspection records anyone can request, and a 33,000-seat stadium. Waitery puts your menu on each guest's phone through a table QR code. Guests order and pay there, and the ticket reaches your kitchen screen. It costs $14 CAD per location per month, and setup is free.

Four things a Regina operator should know first.

Each card links its official source (checked October 31, 2026).

The City of Regina: a permit for the space, not a restaurant licence.

The City licenses home-based businesses, businesses based outside Regina and a few trades such as pawn brokers. Premises that pay commercial or industrial property tax are exempt, so most restaurants need no City business licence.

The City steps in when you change a space. A new business activity that changes the building code occupancy or occupant load needs a building or development permit, even with no construction. Apply through eBuild. Review takes about 20 days from a complete application, and the fee is $8 per $1,000 of construction value, $100 minimum. Book the POS delivery for the end of that review, so the handhelds and kitchen screen are tested before the health inspector comes.

Source: City of Regina, Business Licences

Source: City of Regina, Tenant Improvements

The Saskatchewan Health Authority licence, step by step.

Your food licence comes from the province. The Saskatchewan Health Authority's Regina inspection office is at 2110 Hamilton St. (306-766-7755). Send it your floor plans and licence application before you renovate, and several weeks before you plan to open. The Food Facility Standards, updated July 2026, list what the plans must show, down to each hand wash basin.

• The licence is valid for one year and is not transferable.
• It hangs where customers can easily see it.
• Someone who has passed an approved food safety course must be working whenever food is prepared and served.

The health authority's food handler course runs in Regina at the Wascana Rehab Centre Auditorium for $70; the next listed date is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.

Source: SHA, Public Health Inspector offices

Source: Saskatchewan, Food Safety Regulations (PDF)

Source: SHA, Food Handler Course

Your inspection history is public, and now covers three years.

Saskatchewan's public health inspectors complete around 15,000 food facility inspections a year. Results have been online since June 2009, and the Inspection InSite portal lists more than 5,000 restaurant-type facilities.

Since August 7, 2026, a request covers the past three years: licence status, inspection reports, orders, enforcement, complaint investigations, and any charges or convictions.

A POS can't pass an inspection for you, but it can carry a guest's allergy notes to the kitchen ticket as written.

Source: SHA, Restaurant Inspections

Source: Saskatchewan, Inspection InSite

Game nights at Mosaic Stadium.

Mosaic Stadium seats 33,000 and is home to the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders; REAL District runs it. The City takes bookings for its May to October season from January 1 to 31.

Free shuttles start 1 hour and 45 minutes before a Rider game or major event, from stops in the Warehouse District (including Dewdney Avenue at Scarth and at Lorne), downtown, the University of Regina and Southland Mall.

Near those stops, the pre-game hour is one rush with a hard stop. With QR ordering, a table orders, splits the bill by item and pays on their own phones, then leaves when the bus comes. Send grab-and-go fans to online ordering for pickup.

Source: City of Regina, Mosaic Stadium

Source: City of Regina, Stadium Shuttle

Sidewalks, patios and outdoor events: ask before you set up.

The City's permits page doesn't list a sidewalk café or patio permit, so ask Service Regina (306-777-7000) before putting tables outside. Anything that closes or restricts a sidewalk, street or alley needs a Temporary Street Use Permit, requested at least 14 days ahead. A sidewalk food vending permit lasts a calendar year; renew by February 15, or start a new request 45 days before opening.

For an outdoor event on ground not already permitted for alcohol, SLGA needs written City approval first. Apply at least 10 business days ahead; the City answers you and SLGA within 14 days. Once a patio is approved, give each outdoor table its own QR code.

Source: City of Regina, Permits

Tips and late closes under Saskatchewan rules.

The provincial rule is plain: unless the law or an established pool requires it, an employer can't deduct or withhold tips, or keep them to cover theft, mistakes, damage or wages.

• Staff must know about a tip pool, for example from a posted notice. Keep its records for two years after it ends.
• Owners, directors and shareholders share only if they regularly do the same work as the staff in the pool.
• Staff can't be required to put wages into a pool.
• Tips aren't wages, so they don't count toward holiday pay, vacation pay or the overtime rate.

On tax, an optional tip shown separately carries no PST; a mandatory gratuity you add to the bill does. And after a late game: staff who finish between 12:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. get free transportation home, and a restaurant can schedule only two shifts a day, inside a twelve-hour period.

Source: Saskatchewan, Gratuities and Tips

Source: Saskatchewan, Restaurant Industry Standards

Three Saskatchewan lines to set once.

GST is 5% and PST is 6%; meals and non-alcoholic drinks have carried PST since April 1, 2017, while alcohol carries a 10% Liquor Consumption Tax instead.

The minimum wage is $15.70 an hour from October 1, 2026.

Liquor permits come from the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA), not the City.

Source: CRA, GST/HST and PST rates

Source: Saskatchewan, Minimum Wage

What to ask before choosing a POS system in Regina.

Based in Mississauga, shipping to Saskatchewan.

Waitery is based in Mississauga, Ontario, and there is no Regina office. Opening a second location? See our Saskatoon restaurant POS page or the Winnipeg page, or start with the full restaurant POS overview.

Regina restaurant POS questions.

Sources

SHA is the Saskatchewan Health Authority. All from City of Regina, SHA, Government of Saskatchewan and Government of Canada pages, checked October 31, 2026. Rules and fees change, so confirm on the source before acting on them.

• City of Regina, Business Licences
• City of Regina, Tenant Improvements
• City of Regina, Permits
• City of Regina, Mosaic Stadium
• City of Regina, Stadium Shuttle
• SHA, Public Health Inspector offices
• SHA, Opening a Food Business
• SHA, Food Handler Course
• SHA, Restaurant Inspections
• Saskatchewan, Inspection InSite
• Saskatchewan, Food Safety Regulations (PDF)
• Saskatchewan, Food Facility Standards (PDF)
• Saskatchewan, Gratuities and Tips
• Saskatchewan, Restaurant Industry Standards
• Saskatchewan, Minimum Wage
• Saskatchewan, Provincial Sales Tax
• Saskatchewan, Bulletin PST-33 (PDF)
• CRA, GST/HST and PST rates