Configuration

A Revenue Center is a source of revenue. For example, one source of your revenue might be the dining room, while another source of your revenue might be take-out. Each revenue center can have a different revenue center setup. The reason for having different revenue centers is to provide more flexibility. For example, you might want liquor items on the dining room revenue center, but not on the take-out revenue center.

Revenue Center Name

Type the revenue center description using a maximum of 20 characters. Some examples of revenue center names are "DINING ROOM", "TAKE-OUT", "BAR", "DRIVE-THRU" and "ROOM SERVICE".

Name

This field displays the restaurant name (You are not allowed to modify this information after the software activated).

Address 1 and 2

Type the name and address of your restaurant in those 2 lines. The workstation uses these fields to print the address at the top of each guest check. There can be a maximum of 30 characters per line. If the description is 20 characters or less, it prints with double width. If the description is over 20 characters, it prints in single width.

Modes

Modes usually refer to the times of the day. Each revenue center can have a maximum of 32 modes. You can have a different price for a sale item from one mode to another.

Availability

You can set availability options for all modes to restrict the selection of modes when using the mode switch function for fast-food employees on the workstation. If the current mode is different from any of the available mode, the display does not include the Exit button. This availability only applies to the mode switch.

Mode Description

Mode names appear on reports in the Back-Office so that you can see what the sales totals are for each mode. They also appear on the touch screens, and optionally on kitchen printouts. Some examples or mode names are "BREAKFAST", "LUNCH", "HAPPY HOUR" or "EVENING". The mode name can contain a maximum of 15 characters.

% Customer

The number you specify is the percentage of customers who receive an evaluation sheet to provide feedback on the restaurant's cleanliness, service, and food. The evaluation sheet prints automatically before the guest check. If you do not want to use this option, enter "0" in this field.

Special Tax

The tax laws of your region determine whether or not you need to use these fields. Some areas require special taxes for certain situations. If this option is enabled, this mode uses the tax specified in the Tax for Special Mode field for each tax definition under Point of Sale Control/Payments/Taxes. Otherwise, this mode uses the regular tax definition.

Special Inventory

If in a special mode, like "HAPPY HOUR", you do not use the same quantities in your recipes, select the mode in which this applies.

Workstation

Evaluation Sheet

None

No Evaluation Sheet will be printed.

Normal

A standard evaluation sheet will be printed according to the percentage set up (% Client) in this revenue center. The normal Evaluation Sheet will include comments on Reception, Cleanliness, Service and the item ordered by the customer. It will also include the guest check number, the time of the order, the time when the guest check was printed and the server's name.

Detailed

Same as the normal Evaluation Sheet but it will include more comments on the Entry, Main Course, and Dessert such as Portion, Taste, Dressing, Temperature and Price.

NOTE: If you which to use the Detailed Evaluation Sheet, you will need to program the " Type of Division " field in the Divisions set up.

Option

Sales Included in TEFRA

This field indicates whether the sales from this revenue center are added to TEFRA (Taxable Earnings Financial Report Allowance) totals. TEFRA sales are those that employees are tipped on. Restaurant employees are responsible to pay taxes on all income, including tips. The restaurant can track these sales and estimate by percentage the amount of tips received. For example, customers usually do not tip employees working the drive-thru. You might have a dining room revenue center, where servers are tipped, and you would enable this option for this revenue center. You might also have a drive-thru revenue center with this option disabled. This field is only used in the United States, and Maitre'D estimates 8% of the sales as tips. For more information on the use of TEFRA sales, see the Time & Attendance module.

Subscribed Sales

Enable this option if those revenue center sales are among those that the restaurant has to pay a certain royalty on. The report for such revenue center will be included in the Statistics sales information.

Electronic Bar Interface

Section

Enter the section number where transactions from the bar interface will be reported.

NOTE: For this configuration to become effective, the Cumulate Per Revenue Center option needs to be enabled in Server Control / View / Options / Bar.