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Purchasing software for Restaurants is easy when you have all the right information at your fingertips. Here at Accounting Software Advisor, we have compiled a comprehensive listing of all of possible restaurant software system features we could find. If we've missed one, please let us know. 

This list is provided to help you get started evaluating the needs of your company, and we hope that you find this useful. No matter what your company handles, your software needs are unique and can be satisfied. 

• "86" items at terminal

• "Hold" items function with visual reminder

• AARP program to give automatic discounts for special customers

• Access all front-of-house and back house features from any station

• Add items while POS system is in operation

• Adjust all payment methods and payments

• Advanced order support

• All reports can be viewed on screen and do not need to be printed

• Allow duplicate table numbers

• Allow multiple checks to be open on a table

• Allows advertising message at the end of the check

• Allows embedded GUI elements

• Alphabetize menu items by group

• Alphabetize menu screens by section

• Alternate currency tender

• Any w/s to view the activity of any other terminal's screen

• Assign different menus to different job codes

• Assign menus to specific tables

• Assign menus to specific tables dynamically

• Auto add inventory

• Automatic declare tips screen at clock out

• Automatic discounts for full or ½ Case purchases of wine, liquor or beer

• Automatic event pricing

• Automatic inventory bulk breakdowns

• Automatic notification on two-fer items

• Automatic tape backup at end of day

• Automatically assigned check number

• Average table value by server

• Back office PC not required

• Balance due

• Bar tab search capability

• Barcode scanning

• Beverage control with count

• Blind bartender (prevents a bartender from seeing sales total until checkout)

• Blind server (prevents server from seeing sales totals until checkout)

• Calculate % of charged tips against waiter's cash

• Can set button color of each modifier, category and menu item

• Cash declaration - over/short calculations

• Cash drawer interface

• Cash drawer timeout

• Change each menu item with different color

• Change payment method of closed checks from the touch screen

• Change program from terminal without external keyboard

• Check number validation

• Check profiling

• Choice of making each individual item modifier compulsory or non-compulsory

• Color coding when table is closed and waiting to be cleaned

• Combine price

• Comp sale

• Comparative sales analysis

• Compute time for table to become available

• Configurable menu interface

• Consolidation of modifiers on bar/kitchen printers

• Count physical inventories on a rotating basis

• Coupons

• Credit card

• Current day reports can be run from a remote PC

• Custom receipts by station

• Customer address label program for mailings

• Customer appreciation program for rewarding loyal customers

• Customer look-up on screen by customer name or Customer number

• Customer purchase history to be used for mailing or solicitations

• Customer wine club program for pre-selling wine

• Daily special countdown

• Daily/monthly/annual reports

• Database entities allow search and edit capabilities

• Day / hour restrictions on sales of certain types of merchandise

• Debit/credit tender

• Delayed order based on time

• Delivery & takeout

• Delivery orders for feature dates

• Denied password report

• Determine sales impact base on the elimination of a menu item

• Direct printing of reports to a specific printer

• Discount control which prevents discounts on sale or selected items

• Discount report

• Display and print recipes for items

• Display items as they are entered in large print on terminal (visible from a distance)

• Display subtotal after order type declares

• Display table status with color codes table status display

• Double wide table number

• Drawer close required or not

• Edit time and attendance from previous days

• Editing, voiding, deleting & discounting all of which are saved in history file

• E-Mail sales information unattended

• Employee database

• Employee time card functions

• Enter items with zero price

• Export reports daily to Word/Excel

• Extra charges report

• Fifteen minutes interval reports

• Fingerprint recognition

• Fixed price meal

• Food cost analysis and recipe control

• Forced station price (no discount on liquor purchased in a restaurant, but 15% at the bar)

• Frequent buyer program software

• Frequent diner can track dates

• Front desk interface

• Full screen check review for quick editing

• Gift certificate software

• Gift certificates

• Graph of top/worst tables per average check

• Graphic receipt logo

• Graphical representation of reports

• Guest check

• Guest check prints different name according with the RVC

• Guest check programmable field by upcoming events

• Guest check totally programmable

• Guest count tracking by guest or by entrée

• Hand held touch screen terminal

• Have more than two pages of modifiers

• Have multiple bartenders with separate drawers at one terminal

• Hold & fire by "time"

• House account tracking and collecting

• IBM-MICROS-NCR hardware compatible

• Increase and change menu prices by $ or %

• Instant sales-screen look-up by brand, description, barcode or origin

• Interact with and send items to kitchen videos

• Interface with a video surveillance camera

• Interfaces with liquor dispenser

• Interfaces with scale

• Internal e-mail messaging

• International ready

• Internet reports

• Internet-based gift certificates

• Inventory automatic reorder reports

• Inventory control

• Inventory integrated with POS system

• Inventory movement

• Inventory tracking

• Item consolidation option on kitchen chits and guest checks

• Item countdown/reset at the end of day

• Item discounts

• Item quantity list

• Item reorder list

• Item price report

• Items have multiple prices for different shifts

• KDS with optional Touch Screen and reports

• Kitchen display system

• Labor scheduling

• Linked Items

• Low disk space warning

• Loyalty point value on receipt

• Make menu changes from any POS w/s without disrupting POS order entry

• Management audit tracks managers access changes and computer changes

• Manager function to shutdown Windows

• Manager log in 

• Manager override

• Mask credit card number

• Membership

• Menu categories and item presets available on all screens

• Menu item commissions $ or %

• Menu item count displayed on each item button as it is rung

• Menu item do not print to report if price

• Menu item HALO

• Menu item price inquire

• Menu mix for each day of the week printed on one page

• Menu screens can have as many pages as necessary

• Miscellaneous key's (enter price only) and ability to print description on kitchen printer

• Move category & item buttons any place on the screen

• Multiple cash drawers at a terminal

• Multiple levels of pricing a single product

• Multiple menu/price level

• Multiple pages of menus or categories

• Multiple Tenders per transaction

• Multi-Warehouse inventory

• Non-resettable grand total

• Number of checks printed, before authorization

• Off-the-shelf, non proprietary hardware

• On screen notification of late orders

• One button separate checks

• Online credit card processing

• Online user and manager help

• Open architecture

• Operate in 'left-handed' or 'right-handed' mode

• Operator security levels

• Optional print of "time" on guest check

• Optional print of "void" on kitchen printer

• Order menu items via touch screen or by number lookup

• Order notification to server via POS

• Out of stock messaging

• Overtime warning reports

• Paid out audit trail report

• Paid outs requires the selection of a reason for reporting purposes

• Pair analysis report

• Perform all back functions from any POS terminal

• Personalized bar tabs

• Petty cash accounts available from the front-of-house

• PLU item lookup from a list

• Position (seat) number for menu item prep chit

• Preparation ticket totally programmable

• Preps can have positive or negative $ value

• Preset buttons on screen for ordering

• Price tables

• Print barcode on guest check

• Print Item count on guest check

• Print reports unattended

• Print secondary item

• Print specials on POS printer

• Print tables assigned to each employee

• Printing based upon menus date, time, order type, etc

• Printing priority at the guest check (apt, salad, entrée, wine)

• Printing priority at the kitchen printer (apt, salad, entrée)

• Printing to network printers (printing guest checks on 8 1/2 X 11 paper)

• Product mix by each individual server

• Profit reports

• Program each revenue center totally different from others

• Programmable keyboard especially programmed for liquor industry

• Promotional sale pricing

• Quantity of each item selected indicated on menu item button

• Quick driver cash out

• Random weight scanning

• Real time labor cost by % and $

• Re-assign printers easily

• Recipe costing

• Record server drops

• Re-order key

• Reprint the last receipt

• Require a manager to close a check without a beverage being sold

• Reservations and wait list

• Reservations capability with tie to customer data base

• Revenue centers (each RVC is programmed differently)

• Review historical sales based on weather

• Round off check to nearest nickel

• Run other application software while POS is running

• Run real time reports while POS is running

• Sales analysis tracking

• Sales reports

• Sales tax management

• Scale/weight transactions

• Scan or manual enter

• Scanning checks for payment

• Secondary item print

• Security on manual entered credit cards

• Selective happy hour pricing by area of the establishment

• Send user defined messages to kitchen

• Server banking

• Server reminder screens

• Set minimum and maximum stock levels

• Show large cash transaction

• Simplified database maintenance by user (create a new menu)

• Smart combo (group items and apply one price)

• Smart tax

• Special pricing options

• Split a bill equally among customers

• Split a check by item

• Split individual items

• Split tender

• Standard off-the-shelf industry peripherals and software

• Start­ of­ day and end­ of­ day scripts capabilities

• Sub - total hidden until order type is declared

• Suggested sell messages

• Suggestive selling

• Summary (expediter) printer option in the kitchen

• Summary of menu items on kitchen printer

• Support of weighed items in inventory (liquor bottles)

• Supports 24 hours restaurant operations

• Supports cash drops and cash drawer limits

• Supports scanner for ease of checkout table service

• Suppress voids on checks

• Suspend current sale and recall later

• Table management 

• Take comprehensive reports from any terminal

• Tender

• Terminal changes functionality based upon user logged in

• Touch screens able to automatically alphabetize all menu items in each group for fast access

• Touch screen

• Track non cash payments

• Track removal of cash from cashier totals

• Tracking of bad check customers

• Training mode by employee

• Training mode

• Transaction summary 

• Transfer all employee checks to another employee with the depression of one key

• Transfer check from bar to dining room and re-calculate tax

• Transfer selected items to another check

• Unlimited menu item pricing

• Use any station for all management functions

• Use back-office computer as a terminal for entering orders

• Use delivery program without external keyboard

• User definable screen layout

• User defined backup printer with automatic reroute

• User profiles

• Vendor coupons linked to qualifying items

• Versatile receipt/invoice formats

• View and print all open and closed checks from POS terminal

• View item details

• View on the screen the server name who order the item beside each item

• View server name for each item on check

• View time that each item was ordered

• Void transaction

• Weighted items

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