User`s manual

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Guest Check Adjustments
Introduction
Introduction
This chapter explains how to post discounts and service
charges. It also explains how to exempt guest checks from taxes
and automatic service charges.
Discounts
A discount reduces the price of an item or the subtotal of a
check. A discount is either preset, meaning a preprogrammed
dollar amount or percentage is deducted; or open, meaning the
employee enters the dollar amount or percentage. Discounts can
be programmed to affect some or all types of menu items (food,
liquor, etc.).
Item Discounts
An item discount is applied to an individual menu item. It can
be either a dollar amount or a percentage. You apply an item
discount by pressing an [Item Discount] key immediately after
posting a menu item. [Item Discount] keys always apply to the
last item entered in the current service round, and only work if
the item is programmed to be discountable.
Subtotal Discounts
A subtotal discount is applied to the guest check’s subtotal. It
can be either a dollar amount or a percentage. You apply a
subtotal discount by pressing a [Discount] key. The system
applies the discount to all menu items on the check that are
programmed to be discountable by this discount key.
Discount Itemizers
Not all menu items are necessarily discountable. During system
setup, you chose which menu items would be discountable.
Then you chose what kind of discount would apply to each of
those menu items, including how much it would be, if it would
be dollar or percentage, and when and how the discount would
be applied. For each kind of discount, you set up a discount
itemizer. For example, Discount Itemizer 1 might be a 10%
discount applied to a menu item’s price before tax. Discount
Itemizer 2 might be $5.00 off any entree over $15.00 (including
tax). Finally, you linked each discountable item to the
appropriate discount itemizer.
Now, when you press a discount key during a transaction, the
system checks to see if the menu items on the guest check are
eligible for the discount— if they are linked to discount
itemizers. The itemizers determine which items to discount and
what kind of discount to apply to each of those items.