Basic Pizza
Core Product: Aloha Quick Service, Aloha Table Service
Complimentary Products: No
Separate License Required? No
Other References: Print Designer Feature Focus Guide, Customer Survey Feature Focus Guide, Aloha Quick Service Reference Guide, Aloha Table Service Reference Guide
View/Download/Print: Basic Pizza Feature Focus Guide - HKS1682
About Basic Pizza
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 customers.
- Provide a concise method to deplete the correct amount of topping ingredients for an inventory system to use.
The Aloha solution
The Aloha® POS system offers several solutions for ordering pizza and can accommodate many different aspects of the ordering process. The main solutions are:
- Basic Pizza
- Advanced Pizza
Starting in Aloha Quick Service and Aloha Table Service v3.9.40, we introduced a pizza ordering solution that 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. This solution is called Basic Pizza.
Then we offered a solution for a more advanced pizza ordering environment 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 solution was first introduced in the Aloha Quick Service product in POS v6.7, and 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 products, you design the screens the way you want them, using Screen Designer, to accommodate the method of ordering.
Reference: Refer to the Advanced Pizza in Quick Service Feature Focus Guide - HKS1673 or Advanced Pizza in Table Service Feature Focus Guide - HKS321 for information on how to configure and use Advanced Pizza.
Glossary of terms
You need to be familiar with the following terms as you read this document:
| Glossary | 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 of a whole pizza. |
| pizza menu items | The pizza choices that appear on your menu, such as Meat Lovers, BYO, Supreme. If you support fractional pizzas, this can include Halves, 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 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 Basic 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 Basic Pizza
- Creating pizza menu items
- Creating a pizza category
- Configuring pizza modifier groups
- Attaching modifier groups to pizza menu items
- Adding pizza menu items to display the pizza screen
- Configuring pizza requirements
- Pricing pizzas with basic pizza
- Refreshing POS data
Using Basic Pizza
Learn how to perform procedures related to using Basic Pizza.
Reporting Basic Pizza
Discover the reports that help you manage Basic Pizza.