All-you-can-eat dining establishments offer diners the freedom of sampling a variety of dishes, either through table service or self-service buffets. With menus ranging from focused selections to diverse cuisines, all-you-can-eat restaurants cater to both casual gatherings and gastronomic explorations. Popular all-you-can-eat themes are buffets, barbecues, and hot pot restaurants.

Eats365 provides solutions to enhance all-you-can-eat operations. These include allowing customers to place all-you-can-eat orders with their own device, using a central POS for the main point of operations, and adding a visual self-service menu to personalize the dine-in experience. You can tailor your setup by integrating other Eats365 Modules and features to best suit your restaurant’s specific needs.

In this article, you’ll learn how Eats365 Modules and features streamline your all-you-can-eat workflow and benefit your restaurant operations.

Using Eats365 in an all-you-can-eat restaurant workflow

With the guide below, learn how Eats365’s solutions can be useful in an all-you-can-eat restaurant.

Menu management

Typical setup: 

All-you-can-eat restaurant menus can adhere to a specific theme or feature a wide selection of international cuisines, offering appetizers, salads, soups, main courses, desserts, and more. Depending on the restaurant, diners may order individual plates from a menu or freely select from an open buffet.

An organized menu is an essential part of restaurant operations. The menu you create is used on order-taking devices, so the data that your POS records, including sales data and inventory, is based on the information entered for the orders it receives. When a menu isn’t organized, it can impact the workflow and leave you with inaccurate records.

What Eats365 can do: 

• With the Eats365 POS, you can create separate ala carte and All You Can Eat menus that can be used simultaneously. This allows your restaurant to operate two different types of dining using the same POS. 
• Eats365 empowers you to create clear, organized, and presentable menus. You can easily create single and combo items, set varying pricing per item, organize menu items with categories, product types, and sub product types, customize the menu layout, and add informative labels to items, to name a few.
• You can create multiple All You Can Eat menus to set up your restaurant’s all-you-can-eat service. Optionally, you can create menu tiers with varying inclusions and prices to offer options to diners. Each All You Can Eat menu you create can be configured differently to fit the specific needs and settings of that menu.
• The Eats365 POS allows you to create preset menu templates that you can easily switch between to suit different occasions, such as specific seasons or holidays. You can create several templates and adjust the menu content before applying a template to your POS. If your restaurant offers different menus based on the time of day, you can configure the POS to automatically display custom menus.
• You can add modifiers to menu items that have customization options. This gives customers a way to customize their orders and allows staff to easily input the customer’s preferences.
• Using the Merchant Portal, you can import menu items and other related settings and apply updates to your menu in bulk, significantly reducing the time spent creating your menu.
• You can create discounts and promotions and configure them to apply automatically to an order based on conditions you set. You can also limit discount usage, as well as apply validity periods to ensure that discounts and promotions are being tracked.
• The POS allows you to track the cost and inventory of both menu items and their modifiers. You can also integrate supported third-party inventory and accounting services to further streamline administrative tasks.
• The Eats365 PhotoMenu and Eats365 Branded Online Store are modules where customers can place orders on their own. Both use the same menu as the POS, so all actions made on the POS that affect the menu, including item availability, are synced automatically to the modules.
• Special request quick keys simplify the process of noting preferences. Instead of typing out each request, staff can use one-tap buttons for common modifications, saving time and improving order accuracy.

Explore these sample scenarios to discover Eats365 features and functions to present your menu:

Scenario 1: Offering different all-you-can-eat tiers

To maximize revenue and cater to diverse diner preferences, all-you-can-eat restaurants offer their menu in different tiers packed with different inclusions. With menu tiers, you can control which items customers can order based on their chosen tier. This feature ensures accurate order-taking, as the POS system will prevent customers from adding items not included in their selected tier.

Scenario 2: Creating the initial menu

Creating a restaurant’s menu for the first time can require a lot of effort due to the volume, complexity, and repetition involved. Eats365 streamlines this process with tools to help you create your menu comfortably and efficiently, such as bulk import tools, menu templates, custom menus, and more.

Scenario 3: Switching menus automatically

To accommodate a large and diverse market, all-you-can-eat restaurants need to periodically update the menu or offer new menu items. With Eats365, you can create custom menus that allow you to configure the POS to switch between menus automatically depending on the time and day.

Scenario 4: Creating a discount for a new promotion

Discounts and promotional deals are common offers in restaurants. They allow restaurants to offer their menus at more affordable rates and strategically put them on promotion to drive sales or save on costs. On the other hand, it also lets customers get the best deal for their money. 

With the Merchant Portal or Eats365 POS, you can create different types of discounts and configure them to fit the conditions and requirements of the promotion. The discount can be set to apply automatically, require a discount code to use, or with limited usage, depending on how you want the discount to be used.

Reservation and queuing management

Typical setup: 

The experience at an all-you-can-eat restaurant can vary depending on the scenario. Diners may join the queue or arrive shortly before their reservation, expecting to be seated at the reserved time. If there’s a queue, the restaurant may have a system in place for handling waiting customers, such as giving out queue numbers or listing a customer’s name to be called when a table is ready for them.

The reservation or queuing process is the customer’s first step into the dining experience at your restaurant. If the process isn’t efficient, it may result in errors and long wait times, negatively impacting the customer’s overall dining experience.

What Eats365 can do: 

• The POS Reservation feature allows your customers to book a table at your restaurant in advance, reducing wait times and optimizing seating capacity accordingly. Integrating the reservation function directly into the POS streamlines the reservation and seating process into a single workflow. Staff can easily place and manage reservations directly on the POS with a few steps, while customers can book reservations through your restaurant’s website using their own device, eliminating the need to contact the restaurant to reserve a table.
• The POS Queuingfeature helps organize and automate the queuingprocess in a restaurant through different types of queuingoptions:
  • Regular queuing: You can issue queue numbers to customers and set ticket types to categorize groups based on their party size, helping waitstaff identify which table is suitable for the party. For example, assigning “Ticket A” to parties of 1-2 diners lets staff know that groups under the “Ticket A” queue can occupy a table with a smaller capacity.
  • VIP queuing: You can issue VIP queuing tickets for priority customers and VIP members to move their number to the top of the queue.
  • Online queuing: Customers can queue up in advance by using the online queuing function, reducing wait time.
• Eats365 Modules that can help organize the queuingprocess in your restaurant:
  • The Eats365 Queue Kiosk is an interactive display that allows customers to print their queue tickets themselves, removing the step of person-to-person interaction to place customers in the table queue. Additionally, a queue ticket includes a QR Code that customers, who prefer not to wait at the restaurant, can scan to track their position in the queue and not miss their turn.
  • The Eats365 Queue Display shows color-coded queue numbers on a digital screen. The Queue Display is controlled through the POS, so when a table becomes available and the waitstaff calls a queue ticket on the POS, the queue number is immediately presented on the Queue Display. A Queue Display is typically placed where it’s visible to waiting diners, such as the storefront, lobby, or waiting area of a restaurant.
  • Both modules also allow you to promote your restaurant’s menu items by displaying menu items in the module’s interface.

Explore these sample scenarios to discover Eats365 Modules and features that can enhance your restaurant’s table management workflow:

Scenario 1: Ensuring accurate reservations

Accurate reservation information is essential to having a smooth business day. When customers place a reservation at your restaurant, it means they want to secure a table without worrying about long queues or lack of available tables.

The Reservation feature automates how reservations are placed. Staff can book a reservation for customers and manage reservations directly on the POS. With online reservations, customers can book a reservation using their own device, helping you save on workforce costs while simultaneously targeting the accuracy of the information associated with reservation bookings. This also allows you to plan out the day’s seating capacity in advance.

Scenario 2: There’s a long queue and wait time to be seated

Restaurants can often become very busy, especially during peak hours with many customers going to the restaurant with a reservation or as walk-ins. These instances can often leave restaurant staff overwhelmed with having to handle queuing and seating management, which can potentially lead to double bookings, frustrated customers, and other possible scenarios that might arise. The Eats365 POS Queuing feature streamlines the entire process. It assigns queue numbers, automates table assignments, and includes several helpful features such as:

• Ticket prioritization
• Scannable QR codes for customers to track their place in the queue
• Advance queuing through the restaurant’s website

Table management 

Typical setup: 

Once ready for seating, diners are greeted by a host who welcomes them and shows them to their table. During peak times, it can be hectic in the restaurant, leading to delays, and disorganization. Customers usually end up having to wait for their turn, either because there’s no available table yet or because tables are still being cleared and prepared for the next customers. For waitstaff, attending to multiple tables, navigating different areas of the restaurant, and managing tasks all at once can be confusing and stressful, and can lead to critical errors that you wouldn’t want to occur especially during peak times.

What Eats365 can do: 

• The Eats365 POS allows you to digitally recreate your restaurant’s table map setup onto the POS interface, providing waitstaff with a familiar look of the floor area for easier seating. Additionally, tables on the POS are color-coded to let you know a table's current status just by looking at its color.
• The Eats365 mPOS is a handheld POS that allows staff to perform tableside seating using a mobile device. Having a device that’s easy to carry around is helpful, especially during peak hours when multiple groups of guests arrive at the same time and there are multiple waitstaff working. The mPOS syncs all actions performed to other mPOS devices and POS terminals that are connected to the same network in real time. This ensures that all waitstaff have visibility on which tables are occupied and which aren’t, reducing double-booking errors.
• The POS and mPOS are equipped with table linking, sharing, and splitting functions to conveniently connect or share tables between multiple groups, helping you maximize the seating capacity in your restaurant.
• You can set a dining time limit for your restaurant’s all-you-can-eat service. When this is enabled, you can track the dining time progress and eventual availability of tables. You can also set items to extend a table’s dining time when purchased. 
  • If your restaurant offers ala carte dining, the POS follows the dining time set from the Dine-in settings.

Explore these sample scenarios to discover how Eats365 Modules and features can enhance your restaurant’s table management workflow:

Scenario 1: Large group requests to sit together

When a large group arrives and your restaurant lacks a single table to accommodate them, seating them at multiple tables can create confusion for the kitchen and waitstaff. Unaware staff and mistakes with table numbers can disrupt order flow. The Eats365 POS solves this with a table linking feature that allows you to connect multiple tables seamlessly to accommodate a large party. Orders placed for these linked tables will share the same table number and have the same order numbers even if the tables are physically separated. As an added feature, linking tables is also available on the Eats365 mPOS module, so waitstaff can perform this action in real-time.

Scenario 2: Waitstaff keeping up with a full house

A packed restaurant can overwhelm staff, which can lead to errors and a chaotic workflow. The POS table map interface is designed with utmost consideration for busy environments. The color-coded table statuses allow the waitstaff to understand what a table needs just by looking at its color. Additionally, the Eats365 mPOS allows waitstaff to perform seating using a lightweight and portable POS. Not only does the mPOS remove the need for waitstaff to write down notes or rely on memorization, but it also provides them with mobility to perform their tasks faster and more efficiently.

Order management 

Typical setup: 

Order-taking methods in all-you-can-eat restaurants can vary based on the establishment’s style. Buffet style restaurants allow customers to freely select from an open buffet, while others may prefer a per-plate ordering system, typically using tableside ordering where waitstaff take and relay orders to the kitchen. 

During ordering, many areas in the restaurant are at work, like waitstaff ensuring accurate order-taking, kitchen staff handling food preparation, expeditors ensuring order completeness and serving in a timely manner, and more. When there are multiple departments involved in a process, errors can occur and vital details can be lost or misinterpreted along the way, potentially leading to stressful situations where a seemingly small mistake becomes the culprit for bigger challenges.

What Eats365 can do: 

• Eats365 streamlines your workflow with specialized modules, helping you incorporate devices that serve specific purposes into how order-taking is performed and how orders are sent to the kitchen.
  • The Eats365 POS is the restaurant’s central hub for taking and managing orders. Confirmed orders are sent to the kitchen printer automatically and optionally, to the Eats365 Kitchen Display System. This eliminates error-prone manual steps, ensuring accuracy and speeding up service.
  • The Eats365 mPOS is a portable POS that allows waitstaff to take tableside orders that go directly to the kitchen, similar to the functions of the main POS. This speeds up the ordering process, as well as reduces customer wait time and staff efforts.
  • The Eats365 PhotoMenu is a visual menu that can be set to handheld mode or fixed to a table. Dine-in customers can use the PhotoMenu to place orders themselves. All orders placed on the PhotoMenu go to the POS for verification, unless you’ve configured new orders to be accepted automatically, ensuring that every order placed is properly tracked. Additionally, the Service Call function lets customers call the attention of waitstaff with a tap of a button, ensuring no customer is unintentionally overlooked.
  • If your restaurant offers takeout orders, the Eats365 Branded Online Store is a unique website for your restaurant where customers can place pickup and delivery orders. Orders can first be verified or configured to be accepted automatically, depending on your preferred setup. Additionally, the Eats365 Scan to Order (Bring Your Own Device) feature lets dine-in customers place all-you-can-eat orders from your Branded Online Store website. You can easily manage the website and its settings through the Merchant Portal.
• When setting up your POS, you can create kitchen stations to automate how orders are routed to the kitchen. By assigning each station to a specific area in the kitchen, orders are sent to the appropriate kitchen station for preparation.

Explore these sample scenarios to discover how you can use the Eats365 POS to place and manage orders: 

Scenario 1: Ordering using self-service options

When every step in the dining experience requires staff assistance, it can slow down the overall process. With Eats365, you can add self-service modes of ordering, such as the Eats365 PhotoMenu or Eats365 Scan to Order, to empower customers to place their own orders, process payments, and more. 

Scenario 2: Offering ala carte dishes in an all-you-can-eat setup

Some themes of all-you-can-eat restaurants also serve ala carte dishes. With the Eats365 POS, you can configure the POS to include your ala carte and all-you-can-eat menu items, allowing you to place orders for both dining types on the same device.

Scenario 3: Updating menus for different holidays and seasons

It’s common for restaurants to update their menus with new dishes and seasonal offerings. The Eats365 POS Menu Template feature simplifies the process of updating your menu. You can create multiple menu templates in advance and easily switch between them as needed. Additionally, the Merchant Portal’s bulk importing functions let you upload items, categories, pricing, and more in one go.

Scenario 4: Handling unexpected large groups

Restaurants usually use records, factual data, and other factors to forecast how many customers will be dining at the restaurant for the day. However, when an unexpected volume is added, such as a large group dining in as walk-ins, this might cause the restaurant to work double time to fit the large group into the workflow. Eats365 features help you prepare for busy days with features and devices that streamline operations, including: 

• Organized menus with modifiers: Ensure easy navigation and order customization for staff.
• Portable mPOS: Enable tableside ordering for speed and accuracy.
• Surcharge: Accommodate larger groups with appropriate pricing.
• KDS and Expedite Display: Provide clear kitchen visibility for seamless order

Kitchen management

Typical setup: 

The kitchen setup in all-you-can-eat restaurants vary depending on the service style. Self-service models, such as barbecue and hot pot restaurants, may require less extensive kitchen setups but prioritize order accuracy to manage ingredient consumption and replenishment. Buffet restaurants, on the other hand, often need larger kitchen space and equipment to prepare diverse menus. Open kitchen designs are also popular in buffets to allow customers to observe the culinary process while showcasing the brand’s and chef’s expertise.

Regardless of the kitchen setup, an organized kitchen workflow is a must-have to avoid errors, especially with special requests, customization, and allergens. 

What Eats365 can do: 

• The Eats365 POS allows you to send orders directly to the kitchen by printing a kitchen ticket. Kitchen staff use the tickets as basis for a preparation, relaying order information more accurately.
• The POS kitchen station function sends items to the appropriate preparation area automatically. This way, each station has a designated printer that only receives relevant orders, streamlining kitchen workflow and reducing errors.
• The Eats365 Kitchen Display System (KDS) equips the kitchen area with an interactive color-coded screen. This is especially valuable during peak hours as it allows kitchen staff to easily see and manage incoming orders. The KDS offers additional benefits such as order prioritization, order status updates, easy access to order history, an intuitive order list, and more.

Explore these sample scenarios to discover how Eats365 Modules and features can help you manage the order-to-kitchen workflow in your restaurant:

Scenario 1: Mismatched or inaccurate order information due to large order volumes

Unexpected large orders, especially during busy hours, can overwhelm staff and lead to disruptive errors. This emphasizes that all-you-can-eat restaurants should always be prepared to handle unexpected volume to prevent mishaps that may affect numerous workflows.

The Eats365 POS and Eats365 mPOS allow seat-specific ordering to organize items by person and ensure order accuracy. Additionally, the Eats365 mPOS is a portable POS that you can use for tableside ordering, while the Kitchen Display System and Expedite Display offer easy-to-use design, intuitive controls, and color-coded interface to help staff notice crucial order information and prevent disastrous misses.

Scenario 2: Preventing delays in order preparation

Unexpected large groups and staffing problems are common causes of delays in restaurants. To mitigate this, you can utilize Eats365 devices and features such as ensuring your menu is well-organized for staff to use, setting up kitchen stations to automate order routing within the kitchen, and equipping kitchen staff with informative and controllable displays, such as the Kitchen Display System and Expedite Display.

Membership

Typical setup: 

Membership programs at all-you-can-eat restaurants typically offer rewards and incentives to loyal customers, encouraging repeat visits and brand engagement. Customers can earn points or rewards for every purchase they make. These rewards may include free dining, discounts, exclusive promotions, or priority seating, providing added value and fostering customer loyalty.

What Eats365 can do: 

• The Eats365 POS allows you to utilize Eat365 membership or integrate your restaurant’s existing membership system, create membership plans, use membership cards, create member profiles, and more.
• The POS Membership feature allows you to create member profiles and add customers to orders, track the order history of a customer, and use membership data to improve the business.
• Customers can use their points when ordering through your restaurant’s website. This allows customers to easily manage and spend their earned points from their own devices.

Explore these sample scenarios to discover how you can use membership features on the Eats365 POS to build your restaurant’s loyalty program:

Scenario 1: Setting up a loyalty program

A loyalty program is essential to make customers feel appreciated for their patronage. It can be configured in various ways, mainly with rules in place for earning and spending points. With the Eats365 Membership feature, you can establish your loyalty program by creating membership plans, setting points rules, issuing membership cards, and more.

Scenario 2: Guest wants to use their points to pay

Eats365 lets you easily customize your membership program to allow point redemption. You determine how members earn points, their redemption value, and any relevant restrictions. This flexibility ensures both customer satisfaction and alignment with your restaurant’s loyalty program goals. Membership points can be applied using the POS or your restaurant’s Branded Online Store website.

Payments

Typical setup: 

When customers are ready to settle their bill, they typically request it from a waitstaff. This involves retrieving the bill from the POS, processing the payment, and then returning it to the table (possibly with change or a payment card reader).

During peak hours in an all-you-can-eat setting, this process can get even slower. Multiple tables might request their bills at once, leading to delays and frustration. This can disrupt the dining experience and extend the guest’s wait time at the restaurant.

What Eats365 can do:

• Create various types of tenders such as cash, major credit cards, online payments, and more. For greater flexibility, you can also create custom tenders and integrate payment services specific to your region. This allows you to cater to a wider range of customer preferences, making your restaurant more accessible.
• With the POS, you can settle a bill using other means of payment, such as gift cards, cash vouchers, discount coupons, and member points, providing monetary value in non-cash form.
• You can configure the POS to add a surcharge automatically during peak times to account for the extra effort and physical strain restaurant staff endure to be able to accommodate all diners in a timely manner.
• The POS can include a QR code on the bill that allows guest to pay for their bill using their own device, reducing wait time and speeding up the payment process.
• The Split By function allows customers to pay for their meals separately. Each customer can use their preferred payment method to pay for their order.

Explore these sample scenarios to discover how Eats365 Modules and features can help streamline payment processing for your restaurant:

Scenario 1: Diners want to use their e-wallet for payment

With new payment methods becoming more used and widely accessible, POS systems can become outdated if only preset tenders are available. With the Eats365 POS, you can keep up with the growing payment landscape by creating custom tenders, integrating third-party services, and adopting new ways of paying such as through QR codes or e-wallets. Depending on your configured features, you can also allow diners to pay using their own devices, accelerating the checkout process.

Scenario 2: Group wants to pay for their orders separately

When a group of friends dines at a restaurant, they may plan to pay for their own meals separately to avoid having to split the bill after eating. Typically, the whole table’s bill is generated, expecting only one payment to be made for the whole bill. With the Eats365 POS Split By function, waitstaff can conveniently separate a bill by item or amount, depending on what the table requested. Each bill can be paid using the customer's preferred payment method.

Reporting and analytics

Typical setup:

There are many uses for data gathered through reporting and analytics. Most commonly, restaurants use this information to improve their menu, optimize restaurant workflow for current trends, keep up with the growing market, track and forecast the financial aspect of restaurant operations, and more.

What Eats365 can do:

• The Merchant Portal, allows you to generate various comprehensive operations-related reports such as Sales Summaries, Transaction Reports, Shift Reports, Inventory Reports, and Returns Reports, to name a few. These reports provide valuable insights to inform your decision-making.
• The Eats365 Kitchen Display System (KDS) tracks order wait time, giving you insight into staff productivity and order turnaround time.
• With the Revenue Center feature, you can divide your restaurant into different revenue-generating parts, allowing you to easily track the income of each area. 

Explore these sample scenarios to discover how Eats365 Modules and features can help you make informed decisions for your business:

Scenario 1: Deciding which menu items to change

Refreshing your menu keeps the dining experience exciting. However, knowing which items to change or retain is crucial. The Merchant Portal’s analytics tools provide valuable insights into customer preferences. You can use this data to determine which menu items are popular and make informed business decisions based on this data.

Scenario 2: The workflow efficiency needs improvement

New restaurants often optimize their workflow over time using data to pinpoint areas for improvement. The Eats365 POS provides this crucial information:

• KDS Insights: Track order preparation times, identifying bottlenecks.
• Reporting: Analyze staff performance through reports such as Staff Performance Report and Shift Report.

These insights reveal specific areas for improvement, allowing you to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and enhance the overall customer experience.

Recommended Eats365 Modules for an all-you-can-eat restaurant

Eats365 POS

The Eats365 POS is Eat365’s core module and acts as the central point for all interconnected modules and devices. It’s a stationary device that allows restaurant staff to perform all types of actions, including taking orders, processing payments, handling reservations, configuring POS or menu-related settings, and more. 

To ensure accurate and up-to-date information on all tools, Eats365’s cloud-based functionality performs automatic synchronization across all modules.

Hardware compatibility

To use the Eats365 POS, you’ll only need an iPad for the hardware. You can also pair other devices that serve different purposes, such as printers, cash drawers, barcode scanners, pagers, and other compatible hardware.

For more information on hardware compatibility, refer to List of compatible devices.

Offline readiness

The POS has a built-in automatic Offline Mode feature that allows you to continue taking orders, process cash payments, and send print requests during a network outage. Once the internet connection is restored, the POS syncs all information captured during Offline Mode to the cloud automatically, preventing discrepancies in your records.

Merchant Portal

An Eats365 account comes with access to the Merchant Portal, a desktop-friendly website accessible by both staff and administrators (based on their assigned permissions). The Merchant Portal is primarily used for reporting and configuration, allowing you to generate specific reports, set up features, customize settings, apply bulk changes, and more.

Useful POS features for your all-you-can-eat restaurant 

The guide below shows the POS features and functions that you can use to optimize your all-you-can eat restaurant’s workflow.

Eats365 mPOS

The Eats365 mPOS is a portable handheld POS that waitstaff can bring with them to take tableside orders. The mPOS is a separate device from the POS that allows waitstaff to perform order-taking actions just as they would on the POS with some limitations. All orders placed on the mPOS are sent to the kitchen automatically and synced to the POS.

To use an mPOS, you’ll need an Android device connected to a network.

Useful mPOS features for your all-you-can-eat restaurant 

The guide below shows the mPOS features and functions that you can use to optimize your all-you-can-eat restaurant’s workflow.

Eats365 PhotoMenu

The Eats365 PhotoMenu is a visually-focused menu designed to be used by customers themselves. You can set the PhotoMenu to be fixed to a table or be given to customers during order-taking, allowing customers to place their orders on their own. The PhotoMenu promotes self-ordering, which helps eliminate a number of steps from the order-taking process and lessen the probability of errors in orders.

Features and functions:

• Customers place their own all-you-can-eat orders, eliminating having to relay order information from person to person
• Add media of current offers to entice customers and promote your restaurant’s menu
• Help customers decide what to order by proactively showcasing images of dishes
• Add exciting descriptions of each menu item
• Show the same menu items as displayed on the POS
• Hide menu items that are out of stock
• Automatically switch to a different menu at different times of the day
• Offer your menu in different languages
• Add tags to items to note specific item characteristics
• Show dining time and ordering interval countdowns
• Allow applying discounts to orders on your restaurant’s website
• Ensure that orders placed on the PhotoMenu are checked and confirmed by staff before being sent to the kitchen
• Customers can digitally call staff with the tap of a button
• Synced with the POS

Eats365 Branded Online Store

The Eats365 Branded Online Store provides your restaurant with a unique and configurable website that allows customers to place delivery and pickup orders from their own devices. Depending on your configured preferences, when a customer places an order, the order is accepted automatically or the staff has to manually accept the order. 

Features and functions:

• Customers can conveniently use their own devices to order
• Customers place their own orders, eliminating having to relay order information which can lead to incorrect orders
• Shorter wait time or time spent at the restaurant
• Customize the website interface to fit your brand
• Offer your menu in different languages
• Add media of current offers to entice customers and promote your restaurant’s menu
• Help customers decide what to order by proactively showcasing images of dishes
• Add exciting descriptions of each menu item
• Allow applying discounts to orders directly on your restaurant’s website
• Show the same menu items as displayed on the POS
• Hide menu items that are out of stock
• Switch to a different menu automatically at different times of the day
• Add tags to items to note specific item characteristics
• Synced with the POS

Scan to Order (Bring Your Own Device)

Scan to Order is a feature that allows dine-in customers to order from their own devices by scanning a QR code that directs to your restaurant’s website. Depending on your configured preferences, when a customer places an order using their own device, the order will be sent to POS and accepted automatically or the staff has to manually accept the order. 

Additionally, when paired with the Self Checkout feature, customers can also process the payment for the order with the same device, completing the whole ordering process in the same workflow. 

Features and functions:

• Customers only need to access a website and conveniently use their own mobile device to order
• Customers place their own orders, eliminating having to relay order information from person to person
• Customize the website interface to fit your brand
• Offer your menu in different languages
• Add media of current offers to entice customers and promote your restaurant’s menu
• Help customers decide what to order by proactively showcasing images of dishes
• Add exciting descriptions of each menu item
• Allow applying discounts to orders on your restaurant’s website
• Show the dining time countdown on the website
• Show the same menu items as displayed on the POS
• Hide menu items that are out of stock
• Automatically switch to a different menu at different times of the day
• Add tags to items to note specific item characteristics
• Allow customers to consolidate orders placed on different devices into one bill
• Synced with the POS

Eats365 Queue Kiosk

The Eats365 Queue Kiosk is a system that provides your restaurant with a self-service queue ticket printing station. It allows customers to generate their own queue ticket and get a printed copy of the ticket that includes their queue number and a QR Code, which they can scan with their mobile device to check their position in the queue using their own mobile device. The Queue Kiosk is designed to be easy to use for customers, allowing them to have a smooth start to their dining experience.

The Queue Kiosk can be paired with the Eats365 Queue Display to show the current queue on a larger display.

To use the Queue Kiosk, you can choose from two types: 

• An all-in-one Android Kiosk with a built-in printer 
• A compact iPad and a separate, standalone printer

Features and functions:

• Hardware and OS options
• Simple and straightforward interface
• Include party size when generating a ticket
• Print QR code for mobile visibility of queue
• Promote your restaurant’s dishes by adding hard-to-miss visuals
• Sends queue entries directly to the POS
• Promote automation in your restaurant
• Compatible with Eats365 Queue Display
• Synced with the POS

Eats365 Kitchen Display System

The Eats365 Kitchen Display System (KDS) is an interactive kitchen management display that allows kitchen staff to efficiently manage and keep track of all orders coming into the kitchen. The KDS allows staff to easily see incoming orders and mark them complete as they’re prepared.

Features and functions:

• Proactively display incoming orders to kitchen staff
• Intuitive and straightforward controls
• Sort the order list with just a few taps
• Eye-catching colors to remind kitchen staff of customer waiting time
• Automate and organize the distribution of orders across different kitchen stations
• Readily available order history for backtracking orders
• Capture and analyze data related to order preparation timeliness to improve staff and process efficiency
• Promote automation in your restaurant
• Synced with the POS

Eats365 Expedite Display

The Eats365 Expedite Display streamlines order dispatch from your kitchen. Its intuitive design emphasizes timely service, ensuring that orders are sent to tables in a timely manner.

Features and functions:

• Provide kitchen staff visibility into outgoing orders
• Orders are presented in an itemized format for full visibility
• Intuitive and straightforward controls
• Synced with the POS, KDS, and Pickup Display
• Promote automation in your restaurant