Phone charging stations for pubs and bars.
Guests arrive mid-evening on half a battery, with photos, group chats and the taxi home still to come. When the phone dies the night ends early and the tab closes with it.
Where the station sits.
- Guests
Rent a power bank with a card tap and charge a phone at the table while the night carries on.
- Station
Sits on the back bar or beside the till, where guests already queue. Demand rises with the evening trade.
- Venue
Guests stay for the next round, and every rental pays the venue a revenue share.
Most pubs and bars start on the Compact-8, which is the default across the network. A bar busy enough to empty one moves up to the Pro-12, and because the two share a footprint that is a decision about slots rather than a second conversation about space.
- Recommended model
- Compact-8
- Form factor
- Countertop
- Dimensions
- 26 x 18 x 28 cm
“End of the night, you want to cash up, and there’s always one table who can’t pay because their phone’s died. You’re stood there waiting on them. Now they just rent a power bank and get on with it.”
Pubs & bars, in detail.
- Where does the phone charging station go in a pub?
- On the back bar or beside the till, wherever guests already queue to order. It is a countertop unit, roughly the footprint of a till, and it runs on its own dual-network SIM, so it needs a plug socket and nothing else. It does not touch the venue WiFi or the till system.
- What happens on a busy Saturday night?
- A Saturday is when a bar has least patience for anything extra, which is the point of a self-service unit. Guests rent a power bank and return it themselves, and a returned bank recharges in the station and goes straight back out. Nobody behind the bar handles stock.
- Do the bar staff have to do anything?
- No. Guests tap a contactless card at the station and rent a power bank themselves. There is no app and no account to create, so staff carry on serving, and the power bank goes back into a free slot on the way out.
Other sectors on the network.
- Clubs & lounges
The table that cannot pay is the table holding up the cash up.
- Restaurants & cafés
The seats by the sockets stop being the only ones anyone wants.
- Gyms & fitness studios
Members finish the session instead of leaving when the music stops.
- Hotels & stays
The front desk stops storing guests’ phones in a drawer.
- Stadiums & festivals
Crowds stay ticketed, paying and findable across the whole site.
- Shopping centres
Visits run longer across every unit in the centre.
Written about pubs & bars
- 2026 UK hospitality report: charging at the bar
What charging a guest's phone costs a venue in staff time, liability and lost service, and what changes when it moves off the bar and onto a station.
- Three ways a venue handles phone charging
A wall socket, a drawer behind the bar, or a self-service station. What each of the three answers costs in table turnover, staff time and liability.
- Low battery anxiety: why 9 in 10 feel the panic
A 2025 review puts the prevalence of nomophobia at 94%, and 54% of people panic when the battery drops below 20%. What that means for a venue.
Put a phone charging station in your venue.
Placement is free and installing it means plugging it in. The revenue share is paid quarterly against a statement itemising every rental.