Dining Table Management

To	See
Learn about Hospitality Types and how they are used to design and control the functionality and look of your dining table service, control how pricing is calculated, to which department the stocks are posted, and the way item orders are printed on the restaurant printer stations and displayed on kitchen displays.	Hospitality Types Dining Table Orders and the KDS
Learn about dining table status, kitchen status, and transaction status, and how they are used to keep track of the service flow.	Statuses The Status Cycle of the Dining Table On Service Flows
Get an overview of the several ways of viewing and working with dining tables offered in Hospitality.	Dining Table Layout vs. List
Get examples of how to work with graphical dining area layout on a POS terminal.	Working with Graphical Dining Area Layout
Get examples of how to work with the dining table list layout on a POS terminal.	Working with Dining Table List
Learn about how to transfer orders and items between dining tables.	On Transferring Orders between Dining Tables
Register the Hospitality Module and set up basic Hospitality Statuses.	Basic Setup
Set up Hospitality Types, Service Flows, Dining Areas, Dining Area Sections and layouts and Dining Area Plan.	Dining Table Management Structure
Learn about dining table allocation.	Dining Table Allocation

Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations

Term	Description
KDS	Kitchen Display System
KS	Kitchen Server
DS	Display Station
KOT	Kitchen Order Ticket
Order/Transaction	An order in Hospitality is also a transaction. An order of food items makes up a Hospitality transaction.
Restaurant/Store	A restaurant in Hospitality is the same data table as a Store in Retail.
Expeditor	A display station that shows the whole KOT and when bumped indicates that the order has been served to the guest.
Preparation Station	A display station that shows ordered items as lines. The line can be started and bumped to indicate the progress of preparation of the item.