Running Feature List

Please note: This is not the main feature list, but is a running list for users to add to and modify. Because the software is so flexible, sometimes features reveal themselves in ways our developers and project managers didn't consider.

Menu & Terminal: Cashiers and servers can learn in less then ten minutes.

• 10 categories
• From 8 to 12 Rows
• From 3 to 5 Columns
• Infinite subcategories and menu items.

• Use any Text and color
• Image only and text and image based.

• Menu controls allow you to force entry of food modifiers, and force entry of how food is to be prepared.
• Force steak preparation, or choices for sandwiches, salad dressing etc.
• Easily input pizza’s, the application knows how much to charge for different pizza sizes, and half and even quarters. (all customizable through the Office)
• Happy hour or special pricing on based on day of week and time of day. Easy to setup.
• Discount items, discount orders, discount VIP customers all without thinking. Even zero out on order with just a password or no password, depending on your security choices..

• Search screen to find items in large menus
• Find out about items with the “item info” button
• Quickly print the receipt of the last order (if you don’t want to print all receipts)
• Name orders
• Easily split and combine orders
• Reprint items to kitchen with original print time
• Delete only non-printed items

Password protected & secured against any employee tampering Works with multiple cash registers Any number of prep printers Prep can use recipes on the print out.

On screen receipt : Edit the order fast with the onscreen receipt. Change info on non-printed items Easily change quantity Add duplicate items Group all items together, for fast bar service. Change seat assignment Print specified items to prep. Change

Order Promotions – click to view more.

CRM: Assign customers to orders quickly and easily Use customer loyalty cards to apply a customer to an order and assign automatic discounts. Search for customers by phone number. Easily input customers name and info with keyboard or on screen keyboard. Use customer for house account.

Order Typing:

• Create your own order types.
• Assign work flow to work types, dining, quick service, pizza and delivery.
• Streamline order processing – one button quick close, and credit card screen.
• Force info on new orders
• Customer input – is useful for deliveries and phone orders
• Post special information, with specials’ description and picture.
• Number of guests

Dining:

• Includes Table Layout Designer
• Use a touch screen table layout to quickly start and continue dining orders.
• Keep multiple tables layouts; use expanded views and full layouts for seeing your current clientele.
• Table layouts can show employee’s name
• Use any backgrounds for your layouts
• Side list conveniently shows tables open and the time they have been open for.
• For runners: assign a seat number to any item.
• Use courses so your runners know when to bring out items.

Pizza:

• Our pizza builder was specifically designed to be easy to use and cover all of the variations and features of a pizza menu.
• Specials can easily be created with coupons so your employees prompt new callers with specials and coupons.

Quick Service:

• Simple design makes employee training a breeze.
• One button close of orders.

Order Recall: • Tip input • Void orders / item / payments • Void open orders / open items / payments • Review past orders • Re-open orders. • Managers review cashiers and server orders • Servers review their own orders • Cashiers can be set to review all orders – for simple management in simple quick service.

House accounts: • Easily review list of open accounts • Terminal screen shows open house accounts, their totals, and order review. • Reprint orders to send to house accounts. • Close all orders or specified orders

Recipe screen: • Keeps images • Input pages of instructions, use recipe groups to easily setup multiple item with similar instructions • Easily find items and their recipes. • Will print out on prep receipts – great for new items

Fast payouts: • Keep track of cashier payouts to your vendors.

Pre-Payroll: • Integrated Time Clock. • Prevent access to terminal by allowing only employees clocked in. • Keep track of breaks. • Prevent overtime by using the integrated Labor Scheduling module. • On screen report of daily labor spent.

Employee Self Management: • To Do lists. • Demographics – employees can review their stored demographics • View current payroll • Time Off Request • Schedule Preferences – can review their preferences. • Messaging and email. • Closing functions:  Cashier / Server – generate sales report and calculate cash balance

Reporting: • Daily reporting gives you up to the minute info on sales and labor. • Use over 40 reports to get the info you need. Sales, analysis of overall sales minutes overall costs. • Create charts and spreadsheets from pre written SQL or just use excel to view all data stored from Café Cartel • Write your own SQL and create spreadsheets for excel. • Build out your items with recipes to view break down of food costs based on complex items.

Employee Management:

Demographics:  Store your employees demographics in Café Cartel.  Print out phone lists and info sheets on your employees.  Each employee can be assigned shift preferences for work for their job types.  Total hours preference can be noted for labor scheduling  Seniority of job types is assigned for labor scheduling.

Pre-Payroll:  Keep track of your employees payroll.  Assign several jobs to one employee, the time clock keeps a record of what jobs they worked so you can pay them appropriately.  Generate time reports whenever their needed.  Get reports of total hours for days, or employees o Reports calculate breaks, overtime and positions worked by each employee.

Labor Scheduling:  Gain total knowledge of your labor costs and needs.  Easily schedule and reschedule periods.  Know your labor expense when you create a schedule  Estimate your labor expense when you create a schedule template  Recall past schedules from last year, or last week.  Get accurate estimates of how much you are spending.  As you schedule you’ll see what employees are available, request time off, their total hours for the period and what job types need to be filled and who can fill them.

Emailing & Notifications:  Use outlook to send out emails.  Employees can send notes to other employees within the system.  Notes automatically print out when employees clock in.

Promotions:

Loyalty Program:

• Track customers purchase history • Specify time of day, and/or days of week programs are available • Give discounts for frequent buyers or on individual orders o Free item after specified number of purchases o Discount after specified number of purchase / cash or percentage o Discount the same order, i.e. buy one get one free.

Coupons – Promotions:

• Track advertisers results of coupons or promotions • Provide one day or periodic discounting

Discounts:

• Give basic discounts and track them • Percentage or cash discounts on orders. • Percentage discounts on items. • Create menu items with cash discounts, and keep them tracked. • Zero out Order

House Accounts: • Encourage increased buying practices by using house accounts. • System keeps track of customer purchases, and closes them out when your account has paid their orders. • Tracks customer’s history as well.

Email – Letter Program: • Create custom letters for emailing, or snail mail. • Mailing lists are created by using sales data, customer demographics and a variety of resources from the data you can extract from Café Cartel.