CafeteriasCafeteria customers insist on fast, efficient service. They want to enter the cafeteria, shop for their food, and check out without any wait or hassle. They want an accurate sales ticket and a quick and easy means of payment. Provide all of these and you’ll have a loyal, repeat customer. Ciao Software is designed to ensure that your customers come back – again and again.
At the cafeteria checkout stations, every second counts! With Ciao, we’ve fine-tuned the checkout so that most transactions are handled by scanning/weighing the item or touching the touch screen. And if a bar code is missing or an item is scanned that isn’t found in the database, Ciao allows you to instantly add the item on the fly. No more waiting for a price check.
With Ciao, your cafeteria staff can:
- Learn how to use Ciao with little or no training – lowering training costs
- Check out customers with just a few screen touches– saving time and providing efficient service
- Customize orders in deli and fast-food areas using easy-to-understand modifiers – getting it right the first time
- View up to 100 items on each menu screen – saving time by minimizing the need to switch between screens
- Correct mistakes quickly and easily but with comprehensive audit and security tracking – speeding up service and minimizing management interruptions
- Accept an extensive range of payment types and discounts including gift cards and employee badges – increasing customer options resulting in greater satisfaction
- Charge sales to the appropriate cost center – providing efficient and accurate cost allocation and reducing administrative tasks.
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With Ciao’s full suite of Back Office tools your cafeteria managers can:
- Access back office functions, perform menu maintenance and updates from any terminal - saving time between floor, kitchen and back office
- Combine text and graphics to custom design menu screens – improving server efficiency
- Place up to 100 items on a menu screen – creating faster order entry
- Set up menu items using fixed pricing, pricing by weight (for salad bars) or other variable (input at time of sale) – eliminating separate accounting
- Set up unlimited price/time triggers for lunch/dinner price changes, etc. – minimizing manager time at the computer
- Assign access levels based upon job function – improving system and financial security
- Accept special payment types and discounts such as discount gift cards, discount cards, employee badges, etc. – eliminating the need for secondary accounting systems
- Interface to numerous third party programs including Intuit’s QuickBooks, FoodTrak Inventory, ADP Payroll, and others – consolidating your data for one-step reports generation
- Accept bar codes and automatically prompt cashier for items not recognized – speeding up check out in small retail operations
- Accept multiple currencies – eliminating calculation errors in overseas operations
- Manage time and attendance, build/maintain work schedules and interface with clock in/clock out - minimize error, overpayments to staff
To see Ciao Back Office screen shots, click here.
