Advanced Pizza in Table Service
Core Product: Aloha Table Service
Complimentary Products: No
Separate License Required? No
Other References: Aloha Table Service Manager Guide, Aloha Table Service Server Guide, Aloha Table Service Reference Guide.
View/Download/Print: Advanced Pizza in Table Service Feature Focus Guide - HKS321
About Advanced Pizza in Table 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 that need to support halves, thirds, and quarter toppings. The Solution was first introduced in Aloha Quick Service v6.7, and it does not utilize, or build upon, the Basic Pizza setup. In POS 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 the method of ordering.
Glossary of terms
You need to be familiar with the following terms as you read this document:
| Glossary Term | Description |
|---|---|
| base pizza or topping | The pizza or 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 toppings | A pizza topping that only covers a half, third, or quarter of a whole pizza. |
| pizza menu items | The pizza choices that appear on the menu, such as Meat Lovers, BYO, and Supreme. |
| pizza Modifier screen | The original Aloha POS implementation for pizza. This implementation is very basic, only supports 'halves' for fractional toppings. |
| pizza toppings | The individual topping choices that go on a pizza,such as mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, and more. |
Sample menu used throughout this document
You configure advanced pizza in several different areas of the Aloha POS system. The design and the usability of your pizza ordering is only as well as you make it. To help you implement a full pizza ordering environment, this document provides instructions on how to implement the following sample of a pizza menu. Adjust your implementation to accommodate your own pizza environment.
Configuring Advanced Pizza in Table Service
This section details the configuration requirements within Aloha Manager and Aloha Configuration Center (CFC) for Advanced Pizza in Table Service.
Implementing fractional toppings
There are several steps required to implement pizzas with fractional toppings:
- Configuring pizzas with fractional toppings
- Refreshing POS data.
- Using pizzas with fractional toppings
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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