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Order Entry & Ticket Handling

Servers and bartenders want a POS system that allows them to effortlessly fulfill customer requests. Whether the customer wants to split a check 10 ways or just switch tables, Dinerware makes it easy for your staff to keep customers happy.

Transfer tickets to other users
Change tables
Customize ticket names
Split checks
Share items
Apply payments to other users’ tickets
Repeat previously ordered items
Hold (and release) menu items to kitchen
Use on-screen keyboard to add special requests
Change price or quantity of an item
View ticket details with Ticket Status Display
Tickets are stored forever – ideal for tabs or catering

Pricing

Powerful pricing functionality lets you set up automatic promotional discounts, limit which staff members have void and comping privileges and more. Dinerware’s pricing can be customized to perfectly integrate with your restaurant’s existing policies.

Item price and quantity generates dynamically
Hide taxes for over-the-bar transactions
Create taxation rules
Change similarly-priced items in one step (surcharges, thresholds, GST taxes)
Create happy hour or other promotional discounts
Restrict discounts by job
Suppress hidden discounts on customer prints
Restrict manual discount availability by item
Make discounts apply to tickets, items or both
Add unlimited void reasons with detailed tracking

Menu Setup

Create a different menu for each shift without having to re-enter shared items with fully editable menus.

Add unlimited menu items
Add unlimited screen categories
Add unlimited choices (modifiers)
Place items into multiple screen categories
Create custom menus for certain jobs
Select whether choices are optional or required
Add one or multiple choices
Reuse choices in as many sets as you like
Generate additional remote prints using choices

Communications

Ensure an informed staff with features that keep everyone connected.

View countdown item portions remaining
Use manual override to order items as necessary
Communicate with staff using internal messaging
Add a message of the day to the login screen

Order Printing

Your chefs and bartenders have enough to think about. Dinerware takes the guesswork out of course timing, food preparation, and drink staging.

Print choices in red
Group similar items on kitchen prints
Route prints based on job
Sort tickets by seat position
Printers can be assigned multiple roles

Payment

Flexible payment options let you customize Dinerware to suit your business, not the other way around.

Inegrated credit and gift cards
Customize guest check formatting and contents
Optional receipt printing (great for counter service)
Unlimited split payments on any ticket
Split tickets into an unlimited number of payments
Multiple cash drawers with balance-by-drawer
Use fast pay to close a ticket in two touches
Record checks and gift certificates with tips

Labor

Simplified labor features allow managers to create new jobs, edit time sheets and look up employee information in seconds.

Create unlimited jobs
Automatically calculate overtime pay
Edit timesheets from any terminal
Employees show red when close to overtime
Access complete employee database
View employees’ personal information

Reporting

How is your restaurant performing? Dinerware has more than 70 built-in reports that you can access with a few touches—even export the data in several formats.

Access more than 80 built-in reports
Instantly access daily reports
Print on receipt printers, and preview on screen
Database stores all information permanently
Track audit trail of items sold
Create reports from all data with unlimited history
View reports on screen
Save reports as PDF, Excel, .csv, .rtf or other formats
See, access and use the underlying data

How to Select your Point of Sale

If you’re like most restaurateurs, choosing the best POS system for your business can often seem intimidating. It’s a big investment and can have a huge impact on the success and efficiency of your restaurant, bar or cafe.

There are many different systems to choose from and they’re all different. Take the time to analyze your business needs. These are some things to consider when beginning your search for the right system.

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DON'T MISTAKE BELLS AND WHISTLES FOR FEATURES

Unless you’re a restaurant POS expert, it is difficult to sort out flash from substance. Some “legacy” or older POS companies often cobble layers of features over older features, some of which are no longer relevant. Often this approach is presented in the guise of offering robust features, however this creates a strong revenue model for the vendor selling this type of system.

How? It’s simple. Over time, old code patched in with new code increases the risk of deeper
system bugs and glitches that will inevitably crash the system and risk data loss when you
least need it — anytime. This drives the need for a certified technician to schedule a costly
on-site visit. So begins a vicious cycle.

KNOW THAT ALL SOFTWARE IS NOT CREATED EQUAL

Your hospitality and restaurant POS software evaluations should support two basic factors: ease of use and reliability. Ask how easy it will be for employees to learn the software. Can you quickly access information and make changes to menus?
Get a thorough demonstration of the software before you buy and to note how easy or difficult it is to do everyday tasks. Ask to be shown how to make changes to the menu, change a price and add an employee. Is it complicated or simple? How easy is it to “undo” a mistake? Picture your server and see from their perspective if this will be easy to use. Count the number of touches required to complete tasks. How long will it take a manager to train
the staff?
Speak to other restaurateurs that use the product. What does their staff say about its ease of use? By asking questions, trying the systems and making notes about each, you’ll be better able to choose the best system for your restaurant.
All software is not the same so be sure ask questions, see demonstrations and make notes!

DON'T BUY THE HARDWARE FIRST

All software, even POS, comes with specific hardware requirements. Each POS program functions with certain cash drawers, scanners, printers and card readers. It may be tempting to purchase used hardware, but bargain hunters beware – buying less expensive often is buying sub-standard hardware that increases the risk of a system crash when you can least
afford lost data and equipment downtime. Save time, frustration and money – choose the POS software first, then ask the software company about their recommended hardware and operating systems.

BEWARE OF PROPRIETARY SYSTEMS

There are two main approaches to developing restaurant POS software in the industry today. Understanding these categories will help you to select the one that works best for your business.

“Proprietary”
This software does not conform to open-systems standards, so customers
are at the mercy of a vendor able to charge freely on service and upgrades after the initial
sale has locked the customer in. Because the software is under a restrictive license, other
developers aren’t able to add features.

“Open architecture”
This software design approach allows other developers to create specialty features that can be added to the main application. It’s a straightforward concept: create technology in a way that allows other technology companies the to create features that “plug into” the basic restaurant POS software. As your establishment grows, so will your
needs. Open architecture enables you to cherry-pick features that fit your exact needs and
compare similar plug-ins from competing vendors.

AND FINALLY....INVESTIGATE PERSONALLY

Owners may be tempted to hand off POS selection to someone unfamiliar with the service industry. This decision directly impacts your bottom line and the health of your business. Top management and other key personnel must be involved in the selection process. Whoever evaluates the POS software must have in-depth knowledge of your business. POS software is too important to pass the evaluation process to someone else.

Dinerware Core

Dinerware POS is our core restaurant and hospitality operations offering. It is flexible in design and can easily be set up to support a broad variety of restaurant concepts and workflows. Our customers range from full-scale fine dining restaurants to small neighborhood cafes, high-volume nightclubs to smaller independent pubs and taverns, fast casual lunch and breakfast places to franchisee operations, and cafeterias and contract food service operations, to wineries and breweries, golf clubs, hotel properties, casinos, and more.

Online Ordering

DOLO lets you leverage technology and your social media presence to extend your business’s reach. Set your delivery settings with Google Maps, send alerts to your customers’ smartphones, automatically sync menu changes, and share your link via your website, Facebook page, Twitter feed, industry blogs, and more.

Home Office

Home Office is a web-based management tool that allows you to keep up with the details of your business whether you are on-site or not. Home Office gives you a real-time, secure connection to your Dinerware system. You can sign in from any laptop, tablet, or mobile device and access most Dinerware Manager features right over the Internet! No setup, no contract, and a low monthly price.