Working at Zonal Retail Data Systems

Our Mission

For over 38 years we have helped hospitality companies achieve their business goals – large or small, pub, bar, restaurant, hotel or leisure venue. Zonal deliver world-class solutions, built around individual customer needs.

The unrivalled financial stability and success of Zonal has enabled the business to invest significantly in product development, and we lead the market with innovation especially in the field of customer engagement, guest management, optimising the power of social media and digital marketing.

Zonal is all about increasing your revenue and decreasing your costs through our sophisticated product suite, experienced high quality people and a true partnership approach to business.

The Zonal Story

Our story began back in 1979 when the McLean Family identified the need to monitor sales, stock and wastage in their family hotel near Edinburgh when they noticed shortfalls in stock and takings. Zonal founder, the late Ralph McLean, concerned over his £30 a night loss, invented a solution to manage and control operations and the first EPoS system was created.

That year, an employee of famed brewer Scottish & Newcastle came in for a pint and liked what he saw. The brewery went on to adopt the system across their pub estate, using it to enable both head office and site managers to have a level of information that had never before been available.

Zonal expanded its customer base and started to supply to the regional breweries and pub groups, including JD Wetherspoon and Greene King. In order to fund growth in the business the family hotel was sold and the business and family home moved to Forth Street in Edinburgh. The Forth Street site remained the company’s head office until 2014 when it moved to state of the art premises at Tanfield, still in Zonal’s home town of Edinburgh.

Zonal has developed and evolved from a small Scottish business to a company that employs over 450 people whilst still maintaining its proud Scottish heritage. Zonal remains a true family business with five family members on the board. To add external talent and expertise, the company recruited key roles such as CFO and COO as non-family members, who have been carefully selected so they fit with the Zonal ethos.

Today, Zonal solutions are used daily in over 15,000 leisure and hospitality businesses across the UK, ranging from restaurant and pub groups, night clubs to, garden centres. The company’s full product suite of technology solutions enable Zonal to offer a fully integrated service to any hospitality business.

Zonal serves up technology solutions for the hospitality sector and we are searching for the finest ingredients to join our growing team.

Our success is down to our people, who have a hunger for delivering great service and creative solutions that makes us stand out from the crowd. We never stand still and neither do our people. To help you achieve your personal and professional goals, we are committed to spicing up your career, with the highest quality training and development opportunities, including business and leadership skills.

ARE YOU OUR MISSING INGREDIENT?

When you go to the pub, visit your favourite restaurant or cheer on your favourite football team, the odds are you will have come across Zonal technology.

A family business with Scottish roots, Zonal is seeking top talent to join our growing brood – from our modern head office in Edinburgh to our Marketing Technologies Division in Staffordshire, or our Innovation Centre in Abingdon and hotel management solutions base in Cardiff.

We’re serious about innovation, service and delivery but we also know how to have fun along the way – how couldn’t you when working for such a dynamic sector?

So, if you you’ve got the right ingredients to join the Zonal team look at our vacancies on the right hand side and below