Squirrel Modifiers + Squirrel Labor Issues 2

[mbfootball]

Hi,

How do you make modifiers in Squirrel 3.21d work so that when a server enters in a "Filet" they can go to a popup window and then choose the tempatures? Also how do you put that popup window on the window where all your steaks are listed?

In regards to labor - I have switch from bi-weekly to bi-monthly and I want to set up my labor so when I print my labor reports for payroll it will know what my work week is. For example - I have to pay overtime for any hours worked over 40 hours in a week and 8 hours in a day. I want to know how to setup Squirrel so it knows my work week.

 

[suchasynic]

The first part:

Go into Housekeeping and select # 2-backup & restore, then #4-Backup, then the letter 'c' for configuration. This will backup the system configuration/setup before you go making changes to it -- if you make a mess you can restore this configuration and get back to where you started.

The first step is to make a pop-up screen with modifiers in it -- go into system configuration, #3 Menu setup, highlight "POP-UPS" and press enter. Then you enter on the ADD function and go to a blank spot on the screen and press enter -- name the new pop-up screen & press enter. Then go to the 'GOTO' function and enter on it, go back to the newly created pop-up screen and press enter, you will now be in this pop-up screen.

Enter on the "ADD" function and go to a blank spot within the screen and press enter to add (brakets will open up) create your entry/entries on after another (med-rare) for example. Then to make the entries modifiers (they are items by default) go to the "MOD" function and enter on it, then enter on each entry that you created.

When you escape out of the pop-up screen and keep pressing escape until you are in the "Maintain Menu Item File" you will need to give the entries a menu item # -- since they are modifiers on this example, they are all #'d 9999 -- you will get a message for each one that a 9999 #'d entry already exists, just touch Y to create another one.

So now you have a pop-up screen with modifiers in it. To make this pop-up when you order a FILET for example you need to create a POP-UP GROUP....and inside that pop-up group you put the new pop-up screen that you created and specifiy how many choices the server can make when this pop-up screen appears.

Go into System Configuration, #3 Menu Setup, enter on the EDIT function. You will be in the search box -- find the menu item that you want to work with -- this example we will use FILET. Search by either the name or menu item #.

Once the entry you want is displayed, touch F1 to change it. (the bottom of the screen lists the "hot keys")

The key here is -- use a # in the GROUP (0-200) field that is not being used -- how do you know it's not being used? When you enter it in, the GROUP BOX (to the RIGHT of the search box) will be EMPTY! This is very important! if, after you entered a number in the Group field, things appear in this box it is a POP-UP group that is ALREADY configured with pop-up screens.

So, you have a group # entered and GROUP BOX is empty -- perfect, touch F5 to get into the GROUP box to define it. Enter in the # that corresponds to the POP-UP SCREEN that you created within POP-UPS -- you should see the name appear. Then enter in the # of touches the employee gets to make when this pops up -- the BI field stands for "Bartender Inhibit", meaning that if flagged to yes an employee flagged as a bartender will not get this pop-up -- it will be supressed. In this example you would flag BI to N.

Press escape when you are done -- and keep pressing till you are out of system configuration -- keep in mind, now that you have configured a new pop-up group (by entering a group # that wasn't being used) you can use this # for other entries like NEW YORK, PEPPERCORN...etc..etc... when you enter the group # that you created you will see the GROUP BOX populate

When you go into System Configuration you can ALWAYS press ALT+H to access the on-line help. It is VERY VERY good -- way better then the manual!

If you wanted to have a button that you could touch on the same menu screen as the steaks that would pop-up with this pop-up screen then simply create a new entry on that screen and make it a NON-ITEM and attach the group # that you have created to it -- a NON-ITEM is traditionally used for this purpose. This is usually how MODA-L, MODM-Z, BMODS are setup.

FOR LABOUR

Go into Housekeeping>#2 Backup & Restore>#4 Backup> then "L" for labour. This will backup the labour module in case the changes you make don't do what you want --- you can restore this backup to get back to where you started!

You must set your fiscal start date to be on the day of the week that your week starts on -- so if your fiscal start date is Jan 1st, 2005, which is a Sunday, but your weeks run Monday to Sunday then this date must be BACKDATED to December 27th, 2004 which is a monday.
However, the first day that you actually update your labour for will be Jan 1st, 2005.

To set your OT rate/parameters -- this is done in the Labour Module>Editing>Edit Jobs. You set what the rate of pay is for OT -- i.e. an overtime factor of 1.50 is "time & a half".

For the parameters as to when OT is applied you go into the Labour Module>Configuration>Schedule Configuration>Overtime for More Than: 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week.

If you only payed OT if their weekly went over 40 and not daily, you can set the daily to 99 and leave the weekly at 40 -- this way you will not get the message regarding OT on a daily basis if it applies, only when more then 40 hours as been exceeded for the week.

 

[mbfootball]

Thank you very Much!!!!

Do you know how to block out the credit card numbers on the guests receipts? I have Squirrel 3.21

Thanks

 

[CubbieFan]

Squirrel 3.21 cannot mask credit card numbers. Only versions 3.5 and higher have that capability.

 

[mbfootball]

So what do I do then? Purchase a new system, because the law (In California) requires I mask the credit card number.

Thanks for your help

 

[suchasynic]

You would need to upgrade your squirrel system to 3.5x or higher -- this version & above has the ability to mask cc numbers on both copies.

Alternatively.....an inexpensive jiffy marker would do the same thing... ;-)

 

[mbfootball]

Thank you all for your help!!