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Orders Entry for a Table

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Click a Table (or press O and enter table name)

To open a new Table and start order entry for it, click on a vacant Table. The order entry screen has 4 parts:

Item Group : At 3 rd pane in the right part
Item  : At 1st pane in the right part
Modifier : At the middle part of the right pane
Bill Details : At the left pane

Click on the Item Group in the Item Group Pane. The lists of all the Items in the selected Item appear. Click on the Item ordered, Now click on the button on the modifier pane. The Item ordered and selected Modifier (modifier is also shown as Item in the Bills pane, with price, if applicable) is displayed in the Bills pane, showing the Quantity (default 1) & Value.

To change the Quantity, select the Item in the Bills pane and click Q Quantity button. Now type the Quantity. The Quantity of the selected Item in the Bill pane will get changed.

Table Info Bar

The following info are also displayed showing the current status:

Current Date

The current date is displayed

Current Time

Current time is displayed

User

User name is displayed

Station

The station is displayed

Menu

The selected menu is displayed

Bill #

Current  bill Number is displayed

Table

The selected Table name is displayed

Duration

The time elapsed since the Table was booked is shown

Customer

Customer name is shown if you click Sel Customer button and swipe  a customer card or enter customer card number

Persons #

Number of persons in the selected Table is displayed

If a wrong table number is clicked and booked (e.g 12 instead of 16 and some order has been placed, you may rectify the mistake by Move Table button by changing the Table Number.

Order Screen Button

In a Table specific screen (when a Table is selected), the following button bar options appear :

Q Qty

’Q’ is used to add / alter quantity of selected line item. It will work only on currently ordered items.

N Set # Person

Click N Set # Person button bar or press N button to set the person. You can set the number of Persons in the Table.

R Re Order

This is used to book a repeat of the same Item. Select any one item from the list of ordered item and then press ‘R’ to add the same item in the Order.

O Other Menu

Click O Other Manu button bar or press O key  to select any other Menu (e.g Snack bar, continental etc.)

T Tender

Click T Tender button bar or press T button to go to the Tender Screen to enter money received from customer.

Del Void item

Click Del Void Item button bar to Cancel an Item in an Order. The selected Item is removed from the Order list (the Cancellation Reason selection menu appears only when you attempt to cancel the last Item of the Order).

Note: It works in two modes.

First: If the KOT of the item is not generated then it will remove the item. It will not ask for the cancellation reason. This is useful to correct any mistake on the screen itself.

Second: If the KOT for the ordered item is generated then it will ask for the cancellation reason.

(KOT is generated after the Order is taken and the Item is shown in white background once the KoT is generated)

C Sel Customer

Click C Sel Customer button bar or press C button to open a box and prompt to swipe customer / guest card. If you do not use cards, click on list button to display the list of customers. Select a customer from the list to tag it to the current table.

I Cust Info

After you have selected the customer, press ‘I’ to display details of the selected customer.

L Leave

Click L Leave button or press L button to come out of the current screen (the Table remains open and further order can be taken later on)

W Wait Staff

Select any line Item and press ‘W’ to display the list of wait staffs (the list of sales person appears, so waiter name should be included in sales person). Select any one from the list to assign it to a line item. Useful in case of spa and salons where different services offered by different wait staff (However, the effect is not visible anywhere in entry screen or report)

M Move Table

Click this button to change the Table Number (when a person moves to another Table or a wrong Table number has been booked). Click M Move Table button bar or press M button and enter the changed Table Number.

+ Register

Register is a function to mimic the actual cash register when you enter 2*4 from your keyboard to add 2 French Fry to the order (where 2 is qty and 4 is item code of French Fry). This function is useful in the fast food counter.

This is designed to work from the numeric key pad to make the fast data entry. However the operator must remember the code of the item. New operator can memorize the code using “S Search Item” function.

U Item Disc

To give the discount on any Item, Click U Item Discount button bar or press U button. Click Single option to give discount on the selected Item only. Click All buttons to allow discount on the entire bill. Click Amt button to enter the discount in Amount. Click percent button to enter the Discount in %. The Discount would be subject to the limit allowed to the Operator.

E Move Item

To move any food product item from one table to another (not vacant) table, click E Move Item button bar or press E button. Enter the Table name to which the Item is moved to.

Y Split Bill

Click this button to split the order of the Table into more than Bill. This is useful when the Table is occupied by two or more separate groups and they want place order separately and want to be billed separately.

S Search Prod

Click S Search Prod button bar or press S button to get the full list of Item Master from where you may select any Item belonging to any menu. Specially useful for Parcels Order.

X Change Tax

Click X Change Tax button bar or press X button for change the tax rate from the list.

G Tag of Table

This is used to place a tag (customer name, phone number, credit card number etc) as aTemporary Measure to book orders with reference to the tag, rather than a table name (where the table numbers not yet fixed)

Click G Tag of Table and press Alt Right Arrow to get next set of available button

Delivery Detail

Provides Customer detail (You need to select a customer before using this button)

Order Screen Button (Quick Order)

In Quick Service mode, the following extra button will appear :

F10 Order

This will print a KOT at respective kitchen channel and an order slip to be handed over to the Customer.

F3 Open Order

This will enable the cashier to re-call the order and collect money