Dining Menu & Backend Management

This guide covers the administrative functions of the Cubigo Dining POS, including menu creation, item pricing, and table map configuration.

The Dining administrator's interface is the central hub for managing community menus and orders.

Items: Select this to add, edit, or remove meals from the resident menu.
Eat In: Use this section to manage orders specifically taken through the POS system.
Requests: View and manage all ordered meals and order history.
Tray Card: Access a printable version of the menu for specific residents.
Reports: Generate Dining Sales, Census, and Diet reports for your community.
Settings: Create and manage your dining modifiers
Information: Manage the general information and help pages residents see within the Dining cube.
Metrics: Access POS data insights and engagement reports.

Administrators can build menus manually or via bulk imports to ensure residents have up-to-date choices.

Manual Entry: Use the Add meal button to open a form for item details, including title, description, and images.
Availability Settings: Define when an item appears by selecting specific dates, recurring weekdays/weekends, or daily availability.
Timeslots: Assign items to specific periods, such as Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner.
Publishing Status: Items only become visible to residents once their status is set to Published.
Note that if items have already been ordered, they cannot be edited. In this case, you can clone the item and update any changes before unpublishing the outdated item.
- To clone an item select the dropdown action bar on the right-hand side of the dining item grid.

Template: Download the standard dining import template to format large menus. An import file can be found attached to this article below!
Formatting: Ensure the "status" column contains either "Published" or "Unpublished" for the items to be imported successfully.
Signage: After a successful import, you can select which community TV channels should broadcast the updated menu.

Modifiers allow for order customization, while accompaniments manage optional extras.

Modifier Groups: Create groups like "Bread Options" or "Doneness" and set rules for minimum or maximum choices (e.g., forcing a resident to pick exactly 1 bread type).
Accompaniments: Define side items that can be served with a meal, including those with additional costs.

Special Requests: Enable a text field on specific items to allow residents to enter custom nutritional or preparation requests.

Manage how items are charged to residents and guests.

Bundle vs. Item Price:
- Bundle Prices: Applicable for combinations (e.g., a 3-course dinner) at a fixed rate per role and timeslot.
- Item Prices: Specific prices for individual items, which apply to all roles and service types.
Billable Items: Staff can manually mark items as billable on top of a bundle price (e.g., an extra glass of wine).
Charge Exports: When a dining request is closed, billable lines (including resident code, transaction date, and charge code) are exported to the community's finance domain.

The table map provides a real-time visual status of the dining room.

Status Color Coding:
- Grey: Free table.
- Blue: Reserved table.
- Red: Seated.
- Orange: Ordered.
- Green: Served.
Unsent Items: Tables with items that have been entered but not yet sent to the kitchen are marked with a blue dot.
Server Identification: Toggle to the Tables view to see a list of active tables along with the name of the server who entered the first item.
Custom Kitchen Tickets: Tickets can be tailored for thermal or impact printers to optimize readability and paper usage.