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Setting a hotel up

Setting the restaurant up, in the order it has to be done

GST groups and stations before dishes, dishes before tables. Backwards means rebuilding the menu.

The order is not a suggestion. A dish cannot be saved without a tax group and a kitchen station, and a table cannot take an order before there is a menu. Doing it backwards means rebuilding the menu, which is an evening nobody enjoys.

  1. The outlet — one place that sells food: the restaurant, the bar, the coffee shop, room service. Each has its own menu, tables, prices and operating day. A restaurant with no hotel is an ordinary customer of this system; it simply has no rooms to charge meals to.
  2. GST groups — a rate and a name. Every dish carries one, and tax on a bill is worked out from the group, never typed. Restaurant food is not taxed at room slabs; set the rate from your own registration.
  3. Kitchen stations — the places a ticket can print. Every dish names one, so Fire KOT splits an order into the tickets each station needs.
  4. The menu — categories, then dishes, then a price for every size.
  5. Tables — a number or name, a section, and how many it seats.

Budget about an hour, most of it the menu.

More in Setting a hotel up

Opening a hotel: the whole thing in orderSix phases from the GST certificate to the first night audit, and what each one needs. Getting the hotel group signed upWhat Asar does, what the hotel does, and why nobody here chooses your password. After the wizard: making the hotel actually readyThe wizard makes a hotel that exists. This is what makes it one that can trade. The first real dayOne booking end to end before you rely on it, then the three daily habits. The month after openingFour things to read on a schedule, and the one that changes on its own. Adding a hotel: the five stepsOne wizard, five steps, and the hotel exists. Everything after it is adjustable. Room types and real room numbersThe type sets the price. The numbers are the rooms a guest is actually given. Rates, plans and the cancellation policyA rate per type and date, and the rules that go with selling it. Rates run out — the check that is not about configurationA hotel that was ready in August stops being sellable in February. Load rates further ahead. Going live: the readiness checksEleven or so checks per hotel, and what each one means it cannot do yet. The onboarding boardEvery hotel in the group at once, and what each is still missing. Lists and reasonsEighteen short lists your staff pick from, and why free text was worse.