Advanced Pizza in Quick Service
Core Product: Aloha Quick Service
Complimentary Products: No
Separate License Required? No
Other References: Aloha Quick Service Manager Guide, Aloha Quick Service Reference Guide
View/Download/Print: Advanced Pizza in Quick Service Feature Focus Guide - HKS1673
About Advanced Pizza in Quick Service
The pizza business is a highly competitive multi-million dollar market that stretches across countries worldwide. The product appeals to all consumers due to the unlimited topping choices you can offer to build the pizza. Another attractive selling point is a single pizza can feed the whole family.
The driving concern for a pizza business is to:
- Increase the speed of customer service.
- Increase the accuracy of pizza orders.
- Improve the quality of the pizza.
- Provide a delivery solution, which in some countries is the most viable method for consumers.
- Provide a concise method to deplete the correct amount of topping ingredients for an inventory system to use.
The Aloha POS solution
The Aloha® POS system offers several solutions to ordering pizza and can accommodate many different aspects of the ordering process. The main solutions are:
- Basic Pizza
- Advanced Pizza
The Basic Pizza solution provides a simple way to order and modify size, crust, and toppings from a single hard-coded 'Pizza Modifier' screen. This solution utilizes items residing in a user-defined 'Pizza' category and also allows you to add toppings to half of the pizza only. This solution is aimed at restaurants that offer pizzas on their menu, but pizzas are not the backbone of their business.
Reference: Refer to the Basic Pizza Feature Focus Guide - HKS1682) for information on how to configure and use Basic Pizza.
The Advanced Pizza solution is aimed at more exclusive pizza restaurants. These types of establishments sell pizzas as the majority of their business and you can support halves, thirds, and quarter toppings. The Advanced Solution was first introduced in Aloha Quick Service v6.7, and does not utilize, or build upon, the Basic Pizza setup. In v14.1, the feature was carried over to the Table Service product. In both Quick Service and Table Service, you design the screens the way you want them, using Screen Designer, to accommodate your method of ordering.
Glossary of terms
You need to be familiar with the following terms as you read this document:
| Glossary Term | Description |
|---|---|
| base topping | The full topping that covers the whole pizza. |
| Build-Your-Own(BYO) | A specific pizza menu item that starts with a base price and the price of the pizza increases with each topping you add. This type of pizza is the most commonly ordered pizza in the pizza industry. |
| fractional pizzas | A pizza that is divided into halves, thirds, or quarters, so that a guest can order more than one pizza menu item per pizza. You must first implement the fractional toppings solution and then build upon that to implement the fractional pizza solution. |
| fractional toppings | A pizza topping that only covers a half, third, or quarter of a whole pizza. |
| pizza menu item | The pizza choices that appear on the menu, such as Meat Lovers, BYO, and Supreme. If you support fractional pizzas, this can include Halves, Thirds, and Quarters, even though these are not items that typically appear on a pizza menu. |
| pizza Modifier screen | The original Aloha POS implementation for pizza. This implementation is very basic, only supports 'halves' for fractional toppings, and does not support fractional pizzas at all. |
| pizza fraction item | The individual fraction you use to divide a pizza topping or the actual pizza. |
| pizza topping item | The individual topping choices that go on a pizza, such as mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, and more. |
Sample menu used for demonstration purposes
You configure advanced pizza in several different areas of the Aloha POS system. The design and usability of your pizza ordering is controlled by how well it is configured. To help you implement a full pizza ordering environment, these instructions provide guidance on how to implement the following sample pizza menu. Adjust the implementation to accommodate your own pizza environment.
Configuring Advanced Pizza in Quick Service
This section details the configuration requirements within Aloha Manager and Aloha Configuration Center (CFC) for Advanced Pizza in Quick Service.
Implementing fractional toppings
There are several steps required to implement pizzas with fractional toppings:
- Configuring pizzas with fractional toppings
- Pricing pizzas with fractional toppings
- Refreshing POS data.
- Using pizzas with fractional toppings
Implementing fractional pizzas
Fractional pizzas are considered to be pizza menu items but these items are seldom listed on a menu. The concept came from the demand from guests who want a variety of pizzas without having to order a full pizza of each. The difference between pizza with fractional toppings and fractional pizzas is fractional pizzas are divided into equal parts of individual pizza menu items, instead of just dividing a topping. Typically, you would couple a specialty pizza, wish as Supreme or Meat Lovers, with another specialty pizza or a Build-Your-Own (BYO) type pizza; however, you could also have two halves of a BYO on a fractional pizza.
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The most common division in the pizza industry is halves; however, recent marketing campaigns now offer a division of thirds and quarters. Some fractional pizzas that support quarters are sold as a rectangular pizza. Some high-end pizza restaurants even utilize a special dividing tool that separates the pizza into equal parts before building the pizza and putting it in the oven.
Implementing pizza topping inventory depletion
In the pizza industry, the amount of each topping you put on a pizza usually varies based on the size of the pizza and the total number of toppings placed on the pizza. For example, a medium two-topping pizza could use five ounces of mushrooms where a medium four-topping pizza requires only four. This ensures a pizza is not overloaded with toppings, which results in poor food quality, and the pizza topping inventory matches against food cost.
When you add a pizza topping to a pizza, the quantity of '1' is written to GndItem.dbf. This does not allow an inventory product, such as NCR Back Office, to correctly deplete inventory for pizza toppings since there are many varying factors to consider. To make adjustments to the data that is output to GndItem.dbf, you can configure a pizza topping depletion matrix for add-on and included pizza toppings that determines the portion of toppings used on a pizza. The matrix takes into account the size and initial number of toppings on the pizza being ordered, as well as any toppings ordered on fractional portions of a pizza. You can adjust the pizza topping depletion matrix according to other variables as well, such as modifier codes. In turn, the POS can output the adjusted quantities to the GndItem.dbf accordingly for inventory programs to use. This feature does not affect the FOH or any reporting inside of the Aloha system.
- Configuring pizza topping inventory depletion
- Refreshing POS data.
- Outputting pizza toppings depletions
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