Person Numbers & Seat Numbers - Panasonic 5000 Series Operating Instructions Manual

Starting a Guest Check
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Magnetic Card Reader-Assigned Guest Checks
This procedure lets you use the Magnetic Card Reader to open new guest checks. The
procedure is very simple, although it does assume you have a guest card similar to your
employee card or server/cashier card with a magnetic strip.
Your server or cashier number should already be entered.
1. Press NEW CHECK.
2. Swipe the card through the reader.
NEW
CHECK
Person Numbers & Seat Numbers
After you open the guest check, you can begin entering items. The 5000 system allows you
to separate the items by person or seat number. If you separate the items in your order,
you can later print a separate check for each person in the party. Even if you do not need
separate checks, these entries help expediters serve the order to the correct person.
You can track items by person number or seat number. Both procedures are basically the
same. With person numbers, you enter a Person # before you enter the items. With seat
numbers, you enter a Seat # before you enter the items. The primary difference concerns
the numbers you can enter.
With person numbers, you are limited to the number of guests you entered for this check.
With seat numbers, you can enter any numbers, as long as you do not enter more seats
than guests. If, for example, you enter '3' for the guest count, you can only use Person #1,
Person #2, and Person #3, but you can enter any three seat numbers.
Note: You can enter up to sixteen person numbers (Person #1-Person #16) or up to sixteen
seat numbers per guest check.
Panasonic 5000 Version 4.0 Operating Instructions - Rev. 2.0
This procedure can be used if your system is set up to operate under the
System-Assigned method.
When you use the Phone Number-Assigned method, the sequential order of
check numbers assigned by the system will not be interrupted.
If you use the Magnetic Card Reader to open Guest Checks, the phone
number-assigned Guest Check does not operate.
[ Swipe Card ]
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