Catering & mess services POS
The counter of a catering and mess company: mess meals per head (breakfast, lunch, dinner, full board, packed lunch for the site, iftar), meal boxes, event buffets per guest, trays and platters, drinks, and event services (waiters, buffet setup, live cooking, delivery to the site, crockery hire). Orders go out to a site or an event, are picked up, or are eaten in the mess hall.
Steps
- Choose "Delivery" for an order going to a site or an event (with the driver), "Takeaway" for a pick-up, or "Dine-in" and a table in the "Mess hall".
- Tap the meals, boxes or buffets and type the number of heads or guests as the quantity; pick the cuisine, the spice level or the main where asked.
- Add the event services from the "Event services" tab: waiters per shift, buffet setup, a live cooking station, delivery to the site and crockery hire.
- Tap "Kitchen" to send hot food to the main kitchen, platters and sweets to the cold kitchen and boxes and drinks to packing & dispatch.
- Tap "Bill", then "Pay", or leave a company's order unpaid on its account.
Tips
- Feeding a company's workers at a site every day? With the Mess contracts & headcount add-on keep each site's rate per head of each meal, record the daily headcount and bill the month in one invoice.
- New caterers start with this menu (Saudi prices, VAT included, converted for other countries); change prices or add dishes in Products. Big event orders and their kitchen batches go on the Kitchen production add-on.
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