🍽 Guide: Restaurants & cafes
For shops using Restaurant POS, table or TAKEAWAY checks, kitchen rounds and Kitchen Board; ordinary counter cafes use the retail guide.
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Dine-in restaurant
Tables, table QR, kitchen rounds, split or merged checks and checkout.
Counter with kitchen
TAKEAWAY checks, recipes, modifiers, kitchen rounds and Kitchen Board without a floor plan.
Pickup & delivery
Channel menus, online orders, payment review and handoff.
Verify each channel/provider separately; a menu label does not prove a live integration.
From order intake to kitchen and settlement
Separate table checks, kitchen rounds, online orders, ingredients and reporting authority.
Restaurant & cafe flow
Guests start at the counter, table or QR; customer requests follow the shop's review workflow.
- ✦ Customer AIGuest / tableWalk-in or QR
- Open checkDINE_IN / TAKEAWAY
- Menu / modifierServer-priced choices
- Send kitchen roundFreeze submitted lines
- Ready to serveKitchen station update
- Pay / closeAuthoritative amount
- Online orderLINE OA / connected channel
- Branch / fulfillmentDelivery or pickup
- Accept incoming orderHuman acceptance
- Kitchen BoardStation and status
- Ingredients / recipeReviewed recipe units
- Production / wastageReasoned record
- ✦ Owner AICost / qualityEvidence-based report
Payment does not create kitchen work, modifier prices are server-owned, and online orders require branch and fulfillment.
AI helps customers and owners within different boundaries
Customers message an enabled restaurant channel
Must be connected and enabledCustomerDoes this branch have basil rice for pickup?
AIAI verifies the published menu, availability, branch and fulfillment; missing allergen facts remain unknown and are handed to staff.
- Check published menu and prices
- Check current sellability
- Ask for missing branch and fulfillment
- Create an order after confirmation
AI never guarantees allergen safety or calls a waitlist request a confirmed table.
Owners ask about sales, menus, cost and wastage
Permission checked before every readWhich menu sold best this month, what was food cost, and what caused wastage?What Admin can ask AI to analyze
- Sales, bill count and average ticket
- Top and slow menus, margin and food cost
- Waste, sold-out items, cancellations, refunds and kitchen bottlenecks
- Compare dine-in, takeaway and delivery
- Sales
- Selected period
- Top menu
- By branch
- Cost / waste
- When evidence is complete
AI summarizes and advises from verified data; price, recipe, purchase and stock changes require authorized confirmation.
Important authority boundaries
- Payment does not create kitchen work
- Modifier prices come from the system
- Missing allergen evidence remains unknown
Need the full inventory workflow?
Receiving, transfers, counts, reservations, lots, quarantine, wastage and reconciliation live in the specialist guide.
All lessons
Set up your shop9 lessons
- 01›
Start here: prepare your shop
Prepare your information, select a business type and plan a migration.
- 02›
Branches, hours & service days
Set up branch scope and verify operations across midnight.
- 03›
Staff, PINs & approvers
Onboard by role, test access and revoke access when employment ends.
- 04›
Products, SKUs, barcodes & imports
Set up drinks, snacks, merchandise or ingredients with prices, costs and units.
- 05›
Restaurant: menu, recipes & stations
Configure ingredient consumption and route kitchen work to the right station.
- 06›
VAT, receipts & tax-invoice requests
Configure seller details, review documents and understand e-Tax availability.
- 07›
Create & pair a POS register
Assign the register to a branch, enable PIN access and handle lost devices.
- 08›
Desktop app, second display & printers
Install the POS client, configure customer display and scanner, and rehearse device fallback.
- 09›
Payment QR & split tender
Set the recipient, verify received funds and distinguish the three QR purposes.
Daily operations6 lessons
- 10›
Receive, transfer & count stock
Manage sellable inventory by branch, including variances and wastage.
- 11›
Open, reconcile & hand over shifts
Count actual cash and resolve pending work before handing over a register.
- 12›
Restaurant: queues & online orders
Separate waiting lists, payment and kitchen acceptance.
- 13›
Sold-out items, Kitchen Board & line cancellation
Stop branch intake, track kitchen work and correct lines without erasing evidence or mis-refunding.
- 14›
Operational checklists, duties & handover
Use versioned standards with separate performers, reviewers, corrective actions and auditable handover.
- 15›
Expenses, petty cash & input VAT
Record expense evidence and drawer movement without claiming statutory filing.
Members, AI & reports4 lessons
- 16›
Enroll members & redeem coupons
Verify membership and coupon eligibility before discounting products.
- 17›
Points, store credit & customer data
Reconcile balances and expiry, handle consent and limit data access.
- 18›
Ingredients, production, wastage, quality & cost
Connect recipes, receiving, preparation, wastage, expenses and reports while preserving unknowns.
- 19›
Reports, live dashboard & AI assistant
Review sales and evidenced product/service activity, and ask for usage help while checking scope and limitations.
Recovery & go-live4 lessons
- 20›
Cancel, return & resolve pending refunds
Use the original bill, verify approval and track actual money returned.
- 21›
Outages, uncertain results & support
Avoid duplicates, retain evidence and recover using the original transaction.
- 22›
Restaurant & cafe launch rehearsal
Rehearse tables, takeaway, kitchen, sold-out, online, cancellation and shift close.
- 23›
End-to-end rehearsal & launch checklist
Rehearse by role, run a soft opening and agree on rollback ownership.
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