Sweets and Pastry shop

[balleballe]

I am looking for information on automated terminals where customers can place orders by scrolling through a menu and taking some kind of confirmation to pick up their order and pay for their order. A friend of mine suggested using smart cards, and smart card reader/writers, but that seems to be a very cumbersome and drawn out process. The shop will see extremely high sales at certain times of the year. Any Suggestions??

 

[DTSMAN]

I'm not familiar with smart cards but many POS systems can print barcodes on the customer's receipt and then the customer can either scan their receipt at the pick up window or hand it to an employee to scan and have them find the customers product. This might be the less expensive way to go.
Letting customers touch computers is going to have a cost to it because of the high quality products you will need so they don't break them.

 

[munishmalik292]

What you can do is have a system installed with a touch screen, running a POS software (like RMS) with a thermal printer and a user friendly interface. The customer can use the touch screen to place the order,pick up his slip and pay for the goods and collect them at the delivery counter. Hope this solves your query. If you need more details you can contact me at munish@channelindia.com
Regards

Munish Malik

 

[johnvai]

you can heave either the magnetic card reader that the pastry corner will generate and then the customer will hand it to the cashier on a pos system with touch screen and an invoice printer, or you can have at the pastry corner a pos with thermal printer which will produce a label that has a barcode that will be scanned through the cashier computer's barcode reader.

Good luck

 

[xchefpeter]

Depending upon how much programming you are willing to pay for many grocery chains are using a system similar to what you are looking for. Publix for one, their system will even give you the "eta" of your order based on many factors. Of course have a user friendly interface and touchscreen terminal is essential.
So far I have only been able to crash their system once in 6 months of testing .... hey its what I do

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