Utilization of a specific command called DeltaQty in your remote printing layouts helps speed the ordering process and clarify orders placed by your servers. The DeltaQty command recognizes the net change in a line item quantity and prints information based on that net change.

 

One guest orders an intricately modified selection from the menu with lots of “no this, but add that”, and then later, her dinner companion wants exactly the same thing. Rather than reselecting the item and reconfiguring all the modifiers to send this new order to the kitchen, the server can simply recall the order to the screen, change the quantity on the existing line item from 1 to 2, and due to the existence of the DeltaQty command in the remote layout, the order is sent to the kitchen as a new addition: 1 more of the item.

A sample segment from a layout using this command looks like this: STR(DeltaQty,3,0)+' - '+ALLTRIM(Items->descrip); see the Siriusware Inc. web site for complete layout samples that employ this functionality. See Salesware Layouts for complete information on creating layouts.