🍽️ Full-Service Restaurant
Owner/Operator training for Full-Service Restaurant: Table service, coursing, floor maps, and reservations.
Table service, coursing, floor maps, and reservations.
This builds on the Owner/Operator Core — start there first if you haven’t already. Below is what’s specific to Full-Service Restaurant.
How do I Create a Floor Map? Create a floor map by navigating to your maps tab, pressing +add floor map, naming it, then dragging spots to recreate your floor plan.
How to set a minimum spend on a tab Guarantee a tab reaches a negotiated dollar amount for private events, buyouts, and reservations. GoTab adds a Minimum Spend line for any shortfall and shrinks it as the guest orders.
Set up Tap to Pay on iPhone with the GoTab POS app Turn a qualifying iPhone into a handheld GoTab POS that takes contactless cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets with no card reader. Covers installing the app, activating the iPhone as a payment terminal, enabling Tap to Pay, and taking pre-authorizations and payments.
What are Maps? Maps allow you to create floor plans that imitate your physical restaurant.
Processors: Cash, Gift Cards & House Accounts
Section titled “Processors: Cash, Gift Cards & House Accounts” Event deposits: how to invoice a guest Once you accept payment for an event deposit, you are able to send the guest an invoice. To invoice a guest, simply press the share tab button on the event dep
Event Deposit: What is it? An event deposit allows you to take an advanced payment for a future event, which can be applied to the tab on the day of the event.
User Experience
Section titled “User Experience” Quick Check-In Tab Share Hand a POS-started tab to the guest's phone. When a guest checks in with their phone number or a QR code, GoTab texts them a link to the tab so they can order more, share it with their party, and pay from their own device while staff keep full control on the POS.
Integrations
Section titled “Integrations” How to Connect OpenTable Connect your OpenTable account with GoTab for reservation management.
How to sync GoTab spots with OpenTable tables Sync GoTab spots with OpenTable tables for guest reservation and check mapping.
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OpenTable integration summary The integration between OpenTable and GoTab enables the two systems to communicate in real-time, streamlining the core information restaurants need.