Allocating Dining Tables to a Reservation Starting from a Dining Table

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To allocate dining tables starting from a specific dining table

Command setup

You can allocate a sufficient number of dining tables to a reservation in a sequence starting from a selected dining table.

There are three possible ways of selecting the starting dining table. Usually, only one of these should be visible to the user:

  1. Select the table in the dining table view (time-line or graphical).
  2. Type the dining table description in the alphabetic dialog window that appears.
  3. Type the dining table number in the numeric dialog window that appears.

You allocate dining tables in the Dining Allocation panel on the POS.

To allocate dining tables starting from a specific dining table

  1. Select the desired reservation list entry row and the Table column.
  2. Select Starting from table from the drop-down list (if the reservation is within the seating time limit, you first press Allocate tables, and then Starting from table from the drop-down list).
  3. Select the dining table in the dining table view.

    or

    • Type the dining table description in the alphabetic dialog window.

    or

    • Type the dining table number in the numeric dialog window.

The program allocates enough dining tables to match the reservation's number of guests, in increasing dining table number order, starting from the selected dining table. The dining tables need to be available for the reservation time. The allocated dining tables may belong to different sections.

If not enough dining tables are available, the program allocates the available dining tables and informs the user that more dining tables are needed. The reservation becomes partially allocated.

The program disregards the dining table allocation ranking and ignores any section filter that has been set in the panel.

Command setup

The command for allocating tables starting from a dining table is the TR-R-ALLOCATE command with these parameters:

ALLOCRES_STARTTBLSEL Automatic allocation to available dining tables in a sequence starting from the graphically selected dining table.
ALLOCRES_STARTTBLDES Automatic allocation to available dining tables in a sequence starting from the typed in dining table description.

Note: You can only refer to dining tables with their description.
ALLOCRES_STARTTBLNO Automatic allocation to available dining tables in a sequence starting from the typed in dining table number.

Note: You can only refer to dining tables with numbers, not their description.