Setup – Guests (Catering and Buffet)

 

In the Catering  and Buffet  Wizards you will want to indicate the Guest type (Cover Types) to use in calculating the sales revenue.  These are the type of guests as in Adult, Child, Senior etc.

1.     Click Settings   (upper left corner)

2.     Choose Setup   

3.     Select Guests

4.     Click Add and enter the information as follows…

 

Field

Details

Description

Enter a Description the type of guest. You may have Adult, Senior and Child covers. If you do not have different types of covers then simply enter Cover or Guest.

 

POS ID# (See Note)

Type in a POS ID # (Optional). This feature allows you to specify which POS ID# Optimum should IGNORE   when importing the sales from the POS.

 

POS Description

Enter a POS Description (Optional). As with products, add in the description contained in the POS system for the above POS ID #, this makes sure the link to the POS ID is correct for the item.

 

Price

Indicate the Price normally charged for this type of Guest. You can edit this amount while entering the event so you may want to add just a generic number here (like $9.99) and change it for each event.

 

 

NOTE: If you enter in the Catering and Buffet events into the POS System AND into Optimum Control, you will want to make sure that the event sales does not get entered twice. If you have already done in this window then you need to ignore it from the POS when it is imported.

5.     Click Save