Required Beverage Feature

The History Of The Required Beverage Feature

Since the creation of food service waiters and servers have been pouring coffees, teas and sodas for their customers.  A tradition of service that dates back as far as history records serving food.

Nothing new for today's restaurant diner except maybe a bit more variety in the choices of drink.  And with servers and waiters vying for more and more tip income it only stands to reason that they are pouring more and more free refills.

So where is the problem?  Your customers are getting better service and your wait staff is getting better compensated.  All looks good on the surface.

The Need For The Required Beverage Feature

But what happens when the server forgets to ring up the soft beverage?  Your servers and waiters are already pouring the same amounts of soft beverages so your food cost takes a hit.  If they don't ring the drink to begin with (even if by mistake) then you are out the income that is supposed to offset the heavy pouring that is already taking place.

What you need is a way to enforce the ringing of at least 1 beverage/drink per person ordering food.  Sounds simple, but not all point of sale systems can do this.

The Solution Of The Required Beverage Feature

Directouch Point of Sale has a feature that will allow you to establish items on your menu that will require a beverage, beer or drink be rung to match.  For instance, you can set entree' items to require a beverage, beer or drink be rung to match.  Of course, we make a provision that a "No Drink" button be on the screen for those rare instances when a person doesn't even have a water to drink.

Prior to sending the order to the kitchen the software will scan the ticket to verify that items requiring a beverage do have a corresponding item.  If not the software will display a warning message prompting the server to ring the appropriate item before allowing them to proceed.  Click this link to view a short demonstration of this feature.

The Benefit Of The Required Beverage Feature To You

The benefit to you is simple.  You get paid for what is served.

The cost to you is nothing extra.  You are already paying for the beverages being served.  You are just not getting paid for them.

Take a look at what you could be loosing right now.

	2 Drinks/Day	3 Drinks/Day	4 Drinks/Day	5 Drinks/Day	6 Drinks/Day
$1.50/Drink	$90/Mth	$135/Mth	$180/Mth	$225/Mth	$270/Mth
$2.00/Drink	$120/Mth	$180/Mth	$240/Mth	$300/Mth	$360/Mth

Mistakes happen.  Items are left off the ticket and after the customer is gone it is too late to recover.  Directouch Point of Sale will help reduce your loss by reminding your servers and waiters to properly ring all soft beverages, beers and drinks.

The Setup Of The Required Beverage Feature

1. Enter Security Access Number
2. Click "Manager Menu"
3. Click "Menu Maintenance"
4. Click "Menu Category"
5. Click "Mandatory" button
6. Pick the category you wish to enforce and click "No".  This will toggle the status to "Yes".  You may wish to have more than 1 category set at "Yes" so that any of these would fulfill the required beverage.
7. Click "Save"
8. Click "Exit"
9. Exit back to sign on screen.
10. The feature is now enabled and you are increasing the profits of your business.

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