Getting Started

Welcome to the SikaBooks Restaurant module. The module extends POS and Inventory for restaurants, cafes, bars, and food-service teams that need waiter-led service, kitchen routing, table operations, bar tabs, recipes, food-cost visibility, and restaurant reporting.

1.1 Prerequisites

Restaurant works with these modules:

• Core — users, roles, permissions, business access, and audit boundaries.
• Inventory — products, locations, stock, ingredients, and recipe costing.
• POS — registers, shifts, selling, receipts, payments, and the accounting bridge.
• Restaurant — menu, table, kitchen, reservation, bar-tab, and service workflows.

1.2 Accessing Restaurant

1. Log in to SikaBooks.
2. Select the business, such as Kofi Foods.
3. Open Restaurant > Dashboard.
4. Use Open Sell Page to enter the Restaurant POS service workspace.

1.3 Dashboard Overview

The Restaurant dashboard gives managers a same-day operating view:

• Today's Orders — number of restaurant orders recorded today.
• Today's Revenue — revenue collected today, with mixed-currency awareness where needed.
• Active Orders — checks or orders still open in the service flow.
• Tables — occupied table count against total active tables.
• Average Ticket — per-order average for today's trading.
• Top Selling Items — today's leading menu items by quantity and revenue.
• Quick Links — service workspace, table map, kitchen display, and user manual.
• Sales by Waiter — today's takings by server.
• Hourly Orders — order activity trend across the trading day.

1.4 Navigation

Restaurant navigation is organised into:

• Dashboard — operating KPIs and quick links.
• Operations — Restaurant POS and Kitchen Display.
• Menu — menu items, menu categories, modifiers, and recipes.
• Tables — floor and table management.
• Reports — restaurant performance reports.
• Administration — restaurant settings, demo data, and this manual.

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