# Department

This section allows you to set up descriptions for different departments of the restaurant. You enter in this field a description only. Departments are used in Time and Attendance reports. Departments are also used to group together Time and Attendance/Setup/Tasks  

**Description**

Enter the Department Description

**ADP Setup**

**Number**

Define for each department used in Maitre'D the department code use in ADP program. For example, the Front of the house department could be code 300 and the Kitchen department could be 500.

**Shift**

Define for each department, shift code used by ADP to specify an employee type such as tipped employee.

In this Topic

1. [Department](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/HelpModules/TimeAttendance/Chap13_TimeAttendance/Help/#department)
2. Description
3. [Number](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/HelpModules/TimeAttendance/Chap13_TimeAttendance/Help/#number)