TABLE MANAGEMENT

The Table management feature:

• Touchscreen interactive management  of the tables map totally customised according to the restaurant plan;
• Includes intuitive and simple functions that help to organise the following actions: free table, move tables, join tables, separate tables and add note/info about tables;
• Provides useful information that monitors: table name, table status (which changes colour according to use), table occupied time, number of seats available or in use;
• Allows the visualization of free tables indicating how many seats are available and related waiter/waitress information;
• Helps to monitor tables in use with the possibility to visualize the meal progress status together with client arrival time; and,
• Allows management of table bookings.

TAKING CLIENTS’ ORDERS

This feature:

• Allows the Use of any mobile device such as Pda, tablet, mini tablet,ipod, smartphones; and,
• Enables additional POS PC station for waters/waitress use, for recording orders and it includes an authentication system to protect  against unauthorized users.

TILL AND WAITERS/WAITRESS MANAGEMENT

This feature allows:

• Management of companies’ ticket restaurants;
• Automatic management of discounts or services;
• Management and automatic computation of change given;
• Petty cash management ( withdraw and deposit of money) ;
• Management of waiters’ portfolio;
• Possibility to forecast  income based on the earnings, deposits and waiters’ portfolio;
• Waiters’ management and the possibility to visualize tips/commissions progress chart, served tables, receipts, invoices, print quotations, actual incomes;
• Management of waiters and operators’ software rights (i.e.: modify quantity, modify price, modify free table status, delete dishes...);
• Payment modality management  (by cash, credit card, debit card);
• Management of credit cards with direct connection to the POS avoiding the need to re enter the amount;
• Daily till closure, indicating the income classified by departments and registered fiscal movements (invoices, due and pending payments);
• Producing accounting documentation including progressive payments details, annexes, payments summary, ticket restaurants, monthly due payments; and,
• Sending till closure information by email.

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

This feature provides:

• Linkage of tills or fiscal printers to issue quotations, receipts and invoices;
• Possibility to issue fiscal receipts, headed fiscal receipts, invoices for privates and companies with the possibility to  enter a new client or search for an existing one;
• When opening a new order, possibility of automatic insertion of  ‘cover’ charges;
• Possibility to print and manage pro: unique bill, separate bills, division of the bill in equal parts according to the number of customers;
• Possibility to modify a meal amount on the spot;
• Possibility to transfer of the bill amount to the hotel room, it can be integrated with other management software or Lasersoft Hotel Automation software solution;
• Full management of pending payments;
• Possibility to automatically fill out summarized invoices for pending payments of private clients and companies;
• Possibility to group the bill by product category;
• Indications about the total income divided by typology of document ( quotations, recepts, fiscl receipts) and payment modality; and,
• Possibility to configure the programme to make it suitable for occasional table management activities, where the bill rather than tables disposition is shown on the main screen (Immediate billing mode).

MENU MANAGEMENT

This feature provides the following functions:

• Management of menu database with classification by categories and subcategories;
• Management of mixed dishes;
• Menu translation service;
• Real time management of products availability;
• Seasonal price lists management  (i.e.: à la cart, affiliations);
• Management of price differences defined as absolute value or as a percentage; and,  
• Automatic modification of price lists, including creation of sub-lists.

MANAGEMENT OF BANQUETS AND STOCK REQUIREMENTS

This feature allows:

• Management of tables bookings and menus for banquets/events;
• Management of menu ingredients that are automatically deducted from warehouse stock;
• Calculation of stock requirements and costs of the meal  for each event;
• Forecasting stock quantities needed; and,
• Bill management.

STATISTICS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

This feature provides:

• Statistics about sold dishes classified whether seasonal or overall, by quantity or value, by category, per plate, table or waiter;
• Statistics about sold dishes whether seasonal or overall, by quantity or value, by  category, per plate, table or waiter;
• Statistics about sold dishes classified by the days of the week or by the time of the day;
• Statistics about table rotation;
• Waiters’ rank;
• Statistic about fidelity card transactions only;
• List of other annexes and accounting documents;
• Possibility to monitor till transactions and analyse payment methods;
• Monthly earnings review with VAT rates;
• Simplified balance sheet: this function allows autonomous creation of balance sheet forecast, comparing earnings and expenses and giving the possibility to identify the breakeven point; and,
• Receive documentation by email regarding statistics.

PROMOTION AND MAILING

This feature selects through multiple parameters (city, sex, age, taste...) the lists of clients to whom to send letters or promotions and informative emails. Messages can also be sent by SMS if the appropriate module is purchased.