Setting Up Dining Areas

The Dining Area contains the settings for a dining area in the restaurant.

You assign a dining area to a hospitality type that manages dining tables.

The dining area is set up depending on which layout view (graphical or grid) it is used for, whether guests are requested, and whether seating capacity is in use.

To set up dining areas

Go to the Dining Areas page, and click New to insert a new dining area with an ID and description.
You can apply a template by clicking Actions, and then Functions - Apply Template.
Refer to tootips for information on each field.

To share the same dining area

Two or more hospitality types can share the same dining area. The same dining tables are opened up when you select these hospitality types. Each dining table has item entries registered to all these hospitality types. The transaction on a dining table is registered to the starting hospitality type. The items of the transaction are registered to the hospitality type where the dining table was opened.

The following applies to hospitality types sharing the same dining area:

The types must have the same service flow.
The types have the same Sharing Sales Type Filter. This filter is used by the system to filter on orders registered to all the sales types when listing orders for the hospitality type selected.

Note: The system constructs this filter automatically when validating the dining area for the hospitality type.

Which reservations a dining table shows

Two fields in the Reservation Display group on the View Settings FastTab of the Dining Area Card limit which reservations are shown on a dining table. They apply to every dining area.

Reservations Show Ahead (Min.): how many minutes ahead of the current time the program looks for reservations on a dining table. A reservation that starts later is not shown on the table. Zero means no limit.
Reservations Show After End (Min.): how many minutes a reservation is still shown on its table after the reservation period has ended, so that guests who arrive late can still be seated. The minimum is 5 and the default is 15.

Multiple seatings

To let several groups be seated at the same dining table, the dining area needs the settings described in How to: Set Up a Dining Area for Multiple Seatings: guest handling and guest registration on the hospitality type, seating capacity, the three dining table handlers, availability calculations, and the three multi-seating template menus.

Setting Up Dining Areas

To set up dining areas

To share the same dining area

Which reservations a dining table shows

Multiple seatings

See also