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| Automatic Form Number Reader | A guest check printer feature that reads the guest check’s serial number from a bar code that is imprinted on the guest check. It speeds up the order entry process, while increasing accuracy |
| Automacic Slip Feed | A guest check printer feature that prevents overprinting of items and amounts on guest checks. |
| Cashier Terminal | A point-of-sale device that is connected to a cash drawer |
| Customer Display Unit | May rest atop, inside, or alongside the point-of-sale device and allows the guest to see the POS operator’s entries. Also allows management to spot-check cashier’s activities. |
| Function Keys | Located on POS order-entry keyboards, these keys are used for error correction, price alteration, and proper cash handling. |
| Guest-Check Printer | A point-of-sale on-board printing device that is sometimes called a slip printer. |
| Hard Checks | Guest checks that are made of stiff paper card. For control purposes, these are stored outside the cashier terminal system. |
| Journal Printer | A remote printing device of a POS system that outputs a continuous, detailed record of all transactions entered anywhere in the system. Output provides audit trail and a variety of management reports. |
| Kitchen Monitor | Video display unit that displays several orders on a single screen |
| Menu Board | A keyboard overlay for s POS system that identifies the function each key performs during a specific meal period |
| Modifier Key | Special keys on a POS system keyboard used in combination with preset and price-look-up keys to detail preparation instructions for food and beverage production areas. |
| Operator Monitor | Part of a point-of-sale system terminal that enables the operator to review and edit transaction entries |
| Precheck Terminal | A point-of-sale system terminal without a cash drawer used to enter orders, but not to settle accounts |
| Preset Key | Found on a POS system keyboard, this key is programmed to maintain price, description, department, tax, and inventory status of each menu item |
| Price Look-up Key | Found on a POS system keyboard, this key functions like a preset key, but requires the operator to identify a menu item by it reference code number. |
| Printer Controller | Also called a network controller, this device coordinates communication between POS cashier or precheck terminals and workstation printers, kitchen monitors. |
| Receipt Printer | A on-board printing device that produces hard copies on narrow register tape |
| Settlement Keys | Found on a POS system keyboard, these keys are used to record the methods with which accounts are settled. |
| Soft Keys | Found on a POS system keyboard, these keys can be programmed by users to meet the specific needs of their restaurant operations. |
| Soft Checks | Guest checks printed on flimsy receipt paper |
| Work Station Printer | Remote printing device usually placed in kitchen preparation areas and service bars |
| Activity Report | Generated by automated systems, this report provides an in-depth analysis of sales transactions and actual labor hours for specific periods. |
| Daily Labor Report | Generated by automated systems, this report contains employees names and numbers, hours worked, wages earned, and wages declared for each workday. |
| Daily Transaction Report | Generated by automated food and beverage systems, this report analyzes sales transactions by individual servers. |
| Inventory File | A computer-based record of items in storage |
| Labor Master File | Maintained by POS systems, this file maintains employees permanent and semi-permanent information, such as name, employee and social security numbers, and wage rates |
| Labor Master Report | A report used to verify employees’ hourly rates, job codes, and social security numbers. |
| Menu Item File | Maintained by POS systems, this file maintains data for all meal items sold by meal periods. Data include: identification number, descriptor, recipe code number, selling price, ingredient quantities needed, and total sales. |
| Open-Check File | Maintained by POS systems, this file maintains data for all open guest checks. It facilitates monitoring guest checks, adding items to guest checks, and closing guest checks |
| Outstanding Checks Reports | Generated by automated POS systems, this report list, by servers, all guest checks that have not been settled. |
| Period Labor Report | Generated by automated POS systems, this report lists hour and wage information for each employee who worked during any specific period. |
| Productivity Reports | In relation to automated food and beverage systems, this report shows detail sale activity for all assigned servers. |
| Sales Analysis Report | Generated by automated food and beverage POS systems, this report measures the sales performance of individual menu items by department or product category for different periods. |
| Sales and Payment Summary Report | Generated by automated food and beverage POS systems, this report provides managers with a complete statement of daily or monthly sales and a listing of settlement methods. |
| Sales by Time of Day Report | Generated by automated food and beverage POS systems, this report provides managers with information on the sales performance of individual menu items by department or product category for different periods. |
| Weekly Labor Report | Generated by automated food and beverage POS systems, this report lists names, numbers, hours worked, wages earned, and wages declared for each employee on a given workday |
| Antenna Units | Part of a system that supports the use of wireless, hand-held server terminals. |
| Debit Cards | These differ from credit cards in that the cardholder must deposit money in order to give the card value. As the cardholder makes purchases, the balance on the card decreases. |
| Hand-Held Terminal | A portable, wireless server terminal that performs most of the functions of a precheck terminal, and enables server to enter orders at tableside |
| Magnetic Strip Reader | This input device connects to a POS system register or terminal and reads the data stored on a magnetized filmstrip located at the back of a credit card or a house account card. |
| Optical Character Recognition Terminal | At service station terminals, servers use these hand-held, pencil-like bar code readers to enter orders from laminated bar coded menus. |
| Power Platform | This device connects a hospitality firm to a credit card authorization center and can secure a credit card authorization very quickly. |
| Radio Base Station | Part of a wireless system supporting the use of hand-held server terminals, this device relays signals received from antenna units to a digital computer’s processing unit. |
| Smart Card | A credit card with a built-in microprocessor and memory used for identification or financial transactions |
| Touch-Screen Terminal | A display screen that is sensitive to the touch of a finger or stylus. These devices are very resistant to harsh environments where keyboards might eventually fail. |
| Delivery Network | Part of an automated beverage control unit that transports beverage item ingredients from storage areas to dispensing units . |
| Empty Bottle Sensor | Part of an automated beverage control unit, this device signals the order-entry device indicating that a bottle is empty. |
| Glass Sensor | Part of an automated beverage control unit, this device prevents the flow of liquid from a dispensing unit unless a glass is properly positioned to catch the liquid. |
| Guest Check Sensor | Part of an automated beverage control unit, this device prevents the system from fulfilling beverage orders unless they are first recorded on a guest check. |
