FINE DINING POS

The Restaurant Manager "status screen" shows the complete state of the restaurant. Hostesses can quickly see which tables are occupied and which are available. Managers can see which employees are clocked in. Waiters and waitresses are notified when food or beverage orders are ready, and a unique bulletin board system notifies employees of daily specials and sold out items

A user defined message can be printed at the bottom of the guest check. The message can be changed as often as desired and is useful for advertising specials, happy hours, etc. Modifiers can be made to appear on guest checks, or optionally blended in with its associated menu item. For example, a Scotch on the rocks that costs $4.00 for the Scotch and $.50 for the rocks will appear on the guest check as "Scotch" with a price of $4.50

Restaurant Manager includes an electronic bulletin board that can be used to convey messages to the restaurant staff. Bulletin board messages can include information on daily specials, soup of the day, etc. Managers can add or delete messages at any time.
Restaurant Manager also uses the bulletin board to inform employees when certain items sell out. For example, if there are a fixed number of dinner specials to be offered on a given day, Restaurant Manager will automatically post a message to the bulletin board the moment the last one is sold.

Restaurant Manager provides tracking of frequent diners. In addition to saving the customer's name and address, Restaurant Manager will record the last purchase date, the number and dollar value of past purchases and the customer's birth date. Promotional mailings can be done based on any or all of these fields.

The server notification feature enables the kitchen staff to notify servers when food is ready. Kitchen personnel simply key in the server's ID number and the name of the server will blink at all point of sale terminals.

Restaurant Manager is capable of sending orders to numerous preparation printers located throughout the restaurant. Restaurant Manager automatically routes each item to the appropriate place ( i.e., food items go to the kitchen and beverages go to the bar ).

Restaurant Manager utilizes a sophisticated algorithm for totaling and sorting items on preparation printouts. This ensures that items appear in a logical sequence and that duplicated items are totaled rather than repeated.

Restaurant Manager can utilize video displays in lieu of preparation printers. Prep displays can be operated using either keyboard or touch screen. Up to eight orders can be displayed at once on a single prep display. Orders are maintained in chronological sequence. When an order is complete, it is cleared from the screen and all subsequent orders are advanced forward in the queue. Cleared orders can be recalled at a later time if necessary.

Preparation instructions can either be compulsory, or optional. Compulsory prep instructions appear in a pop-up window each time an item is ordered. Servers must select an item from the list before continuing. This ensures that all orders sent to the kitchen have adequate information to be prepared

Improperly entered food and beverage orders can be easily changed and/or deleted before being "Sent" to the preparation printers. Once "Sent" however, items can still be deleted but a manager password is required. Restaurant Manager keeps a careful tally of all deletions and can print a report showing each deletion, along with the reason for the deletion and the employee who made it.

Voided checks are tracked by employee number. Restaurant Manager asks for an employee number and the employee's password at the time of the void. A special "VOID" report shows all voids and the employees who made them.

Restaurant Manager allows up to 6 price levels for happy hours, lunch and dinner pricing, etc. The price level can be changed manually, or automatically based on a user defined time schedule.

Restaurant Manager provides the ability to assign seat numbers to each item. The kitchen print out shows the seat numbers so that runners can tell which items go to which customer without having to ask.

Restaurant Manager easily handles separate checks. Checks can be split at any time before or after the bill is printed. Once split, each "sub-check" can be modified, printed, or settled independently of the others. Restaurant Manager also provides the ability to "un-split" or re-combine a split check back into a single check

Restaurant Manager allows each guest check to be settled using multiple forms of payment. For example, customers may settle a check using part cash, and part credit card, or split up a payment between two or more credit cards. Up to 4 methods of payment may be used for tendering each guest check.

Menu recipes provide the ability to enter descriptive text for each menu item. The recipes can contain descriptions of entrees or daily specials which can be viewed by waiters and waitresses. Or they can contain special cooking instructions for the kitchen staff. You can also enter recipes for "off-menu" items making the menu recipes useful as a bartender's reference for hundreds of mixed drinks, shooters or specialty drinks.

If a server accidentally chooses the wrong method of payment, for example, if he settles a VISA transaction using CASH, or vice versa, the settlement can easily be revised. This feature can be password protected.

The Fine Dining POS module provides a "Fast Transaction" mode for quick service bars. Unlike regular "table transactions", "Fast Transactions" do not require entering the table number, employee number, or number of customers. Just start an order, enter the items, and settle.

Restaurant Manager can handle nearly any type of tax situation, including straight percentage and/or Value Added Taxes ( VAT's ). The tax amount for food sales can be set independently from beverage and/or liquor sales. Restaurant Manager can track up to 5 independent tax types. In addition, Restaurant Manager has 2 distinct tax tables ( each with 5 tax types ), allowing one tax structure for dining room transactions, and a completely independent tax structure for bar transactions.

Tax exemption can be applied to any check. This feature requires a manager password. Weekly and monthly sales reports show the total non-taxed sales.

The user can define an unlimited number of discounts ( i.e., senior citizen discount, employee discount, police discount, etc.). Each discount can have a different percentage and/or a different password access level. Restaurant Manager can also accommodate 2 for 1 discounts or "buy one get one free".

Restaurant Manager can apply automatic gratuities based upon the size of the party and/or the check total. The gratuity amount is printed automatically at the bottom of the guest check

Restaurant Manager is capable of tracking up to 99 cash drawers. The cash drawer reconciliation report shows the starting amount in the drawer, and the total revenues broken down by method of payment ( i.e., cash, check, VISA, etc.).

Restaurant Manager provides the ability to track cash pay outs. A cash pay out report shows the amount of each pay out and the reason for the transaction. The end-user can optionally enter a description which is also printed on the cash pay out report.

For restaurants that are located within a hotel or motel, Restaurant Manager can track payments that are charged to customers' rooms. Each room charge is printed at the hotel front desk along with the room number and the charge amount.

Restaurant Manager provides the capability of tracking employee meals. An "Employee Meals" report shows the date and time of each meal, the amount of the meal, and the total meals for each employee

Checks can be transferred from one server to another. This feature can be password protected.

In addition to transferring checks from one server to another, Restaurant Manager has the ability to transfer items from one table to another. This feature is useful for consolidating checks, or for transferring drinks from a bar order to a sit down table order.

Restaurant Manager is capable of handling two types of currency. The user can define the exchange rate for converting from one currency type to the other.