Divisions

Divisions

The Divisions option of the Revenue Center allows to group items into up to 50 divisions that correspond to mains sections of your printed menu. For example: main course, desert, beer, and wine are some division choices. Most reports, including the employee reading, sort by division. You may program taxes, special tax, promotions, and employee discounts for each division. Each division is associated with one out of 30 possible categories for broader report purposes, for example, food and liquor are common categories.

Description

Enter the division name. The Back-Office prints this description on the reports. These descriptions should reflect your printed menu. For example: Appetizer, Grill Wine, and Dessert.

Type

The division type is used by the Table Management module to display the step of the meal the guests have reached. The type also groups sales items together on the Evaluation Sheet, which can be found in Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Options / Configuration, as well on as on checks, if the Sorting by Meal Types option is enabled in Point of Sale Control / Employee / Configuration / Invoice.

Category

The sales reporting categories for divisions are set up in the Revenue Center / Category option.

Frequent Diner

Choose from the list a frequent diner promotion to apply to this division, to reward your frequent customers with points applicable as credits on future purchases.

Price Change Tool

A price change tool is included in each division. This tool allows you to quickly increase or decrease prices by adding or subtracting fixed dollar amount or percentages for all the items in a given division.

Button - Price Change

Division

Number

This field displays the division number.

Description

This field displays the division description.

Mode

The number of modes displayed in the Mode box depends on the number of modes configured in Point of Sale Control / View / Options / Configuration.

Mode-1 to Mode-32

Select each mode that will be affected by the price change.

NOTE: The price change automatically affects all Revenue Centers.

Select All

Button - Select All

Click the Select All button to automatically select all available modes.

Clear All

Button - Clear All

Click the Clear All button to automatically de-select all available modes.

Operation

Use Percentage

Select this option to change the prices according to a set percentage. This will make the % field available, while the $ field will be grayed out.

Use Price

Select this option to change the prices by a fixed dollar amount. This will make the $ field available, while the % field will be grayed out.

Set to Cost

Select this option to automatically set the price to the cost of the item, as calculated in Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Item Setup / [Item] / Configuration / [Config] / Price and Cost. This option is useful for non-profit organizations selling items at cost.

Price

%

Enter the percentage that will be added or subtracted to/from current item prices. This value can be positive or negative. The up/down arrows can be used to increase or decrease the values.

$

Enter the fixed dollar amount that will be added or subtracted to/from current item prices. This value can be positive or negative. The up/down arrows can be used to increase or decrease the values.

Add Tax to Price

If inclusive taxes are in use, enable this option to calculate the tax amount to be added to the item’s price.

NOTE: This option only becomes available if the Set to Cost option is selected.

Change

Button - Change

Click this button to apply the price change. If you wish to cancel the change and you have to process another change. Ex: The change was 5$, to cancel you have to apply another change of <5$>. The change was 25%; to cancel you have to apply another change of <20%>.

Cancel

Button - Cancel

Closes this dialog without applying the changes made so far.

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Conditional Printing

The Conditional Printing interface allows to link the printout of items from different divisions that go to separate printers on the same order. For example, if you order at the same time an item from the Pasta division and an item from the Grill division. Furthermore, these items are setup to print on different printers. On the Pasta printer, the Pasta item will print first, followed by a note to synchronize the Grill item on the same order.

Divisions

Choose another secondary division to link to this base division.

NOTE: You also need to enable the Use Conditional Printing options in Point of Sale Control / Employees / Configuration / Order.

Modify

Button - Modify

Select an existing division and click the Modify button to replace it with another one.

Add

Button - Add

Click the Add button to link a new division.

Delete

Button - Delete

Click the Delete button to remove a division from the list.

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Options

Evaluation Sheet

Enable this option for sales items of this division to print on the Evaluation Sheet setup in Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Options / Configuration.

With Service

Enable this option to calculate the service charge on the items belonging to this division.

Included in Last Round

Enable this option for to include items belonging to a division in the Last Round function of the Point of Sale This field can be used if you do not want the food items to be affected by the Last Round option.

Gratuity Distribution

Enable this option to include this division in the calculation of tips owned to Bartenders printed on the server's reading.

NOTE: You must also enter the percentage applied to calculate the amount owned to Bartenders in the Division field of Point of Sale Control / View / Options / Gratuity Distribution.

Not Compiled in Kitchen

Enable this option to print the modifiers of sales items from that division separately in the kitchen, starting with a star, when both the options Compilation of Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Configuration / Options / Kitchen and Special Menu Printout option of Point of Sale Control / View / Options / Printing. This makes the kitchen chits easier to read When ordering the same item with multiple different modifiers, the chef does not know which modifiers to combine on an individual sales item. If you disable the kitchen compilation for a division, each sales item's modifier are listed separately. This can be useful for the cook when ordering similar items for multiple guests on the same customer screen.

Auto Hold (Minutes)

Enter the time (in minutes) that Maitre'D waits before sending items from this division to the shared printer. Items selected displays the countdown time before the item is sent to the kitchen. When the time reaches 0:00, it will automatically Fire the items to the appropriate printer.

NOTE: The Auto Hold option in Point of Sale Control / Employee / Configuration / Order must be enabled.

Savings Rate

Enter the percentage saved by customers due to a tax adjustment.

NOTE: This percentage will be used only if the Calculate by Division option is selected in Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Options / Options / Check / Rate Adjustment. Also, in order to see the Rate Adjustment branch, the Rate Adjustment option needs to be enabled in Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Options / Options / Check.

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Report

Ratio Report

The ratio report field is only used in conjunction with the Inventory System. If this option is not present on your system, this option should be set to undefined. The ratios for divisions are set up in the Ratios Report option later in this section.

Subscribed Sales

Enable this option if this division's sales are among those that the restaurant has to pay royalties on. The report for such division will be included in the Statistics sales information.

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Tax

Tax #1

From the drop-down list, select the first tax that applies to the division.

NOTE: If no tax applies, create a 0% percent tax and select it in this first field.

Tax #2

From the drop-down list, select a second tax, if required. Tax 2# applies after the first tax (Tax #1).

NOTE: If no second tax applies, select Undefined in this second field.

BC Soda Beverages Tax

The options in this section will only become available if one of the selected taxes has the option BC Soda Beverage Tax enabled, in Point of Sale Control / Payments / Taxes / [select tax] / Option. These options should be used only by merchants located in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

The purpose of these settings is to configure the calculation of the BC Soda Beverage Tax for taxable items that are part of combo meals or included with other items that are not taxable. When a taxable item is part of a combo and not sold separately, the BC Soda Beverage Tax is calculated on the lesser value between $3.00 or 50% of the sale price of the combo.

NOTE: The $3.00 and 50% values are current from April 1st, 2021 onwards.

Example #1

You sell an all-you-can-eat buffet with access to a soda fountain for $30.00. Access to the soda fountain is not sold separately. Since $3.00 is lesser than 50% of $30.00 ($15.00), the BC Soda Tax will be calculated on $3.00.

Example #2

You sell an all-you-can-eat buffet for $28.00. You offer access to a soda fountain for an additional $2.00. Because access to the soda fountain is listed separately on the menu, the BC Soda Tax is calculated on the sale price of $2.00.

Example #3

You sell a hot-dog and soda combo for $5.00. The soda is not listed on the menu and not sold on its own. Because 50% of $5.00 ($2.50) is lesser than $3.00, the BC Soda Tax will be calculated on $2.50.

Maximum Amount

Enter the maximum amount that will be used as a base sale price for the calculation of the BC Soda Beverage Tax on a taxable item that is part of a combo meal or included with another item.

NOTE: From April 1st, 2021, this value needs to be set at $3.00.

Maximum Percentage

Enter the percentage of the combo or main item price that will be used for the calculation of the BC Soda Beverage Tax.

NOTE: From April 1st, 2021, this value needs to be set at 50%.