LOCATION

A restaurant business can have a single outlet or a chain of multiple outlets. It can be a fine dining restaurant, QSR, cafe, Foodcourt or bar & pub. DineConnect helps to manage the business across different locations/organizations as a central management system.  In this document, we will understand various concepts in the Location sub-module. 

• Organization

• Location

• Location Group

• Location Tag

ORGANIZATION

Usually, the Restaurants are managed by the Organizations. A single organization can manage multiple locations spread across or sometimes the brand can be managed by multiple organizations for the set of different location groups.

For Example, MCDONALD GROUP in Singapore has 20 Locations and is managed by a few companies.

In such a case, we can create two organizations in DineConnect. Let us see how this is done.

Create and Update Organization

STEP 1: Log in to DineConnect, Go to CONNECT --> LOCATION --> ORGANIZATION. On this page, you will be able to Create, Edit or Delete the Organization on DineConnect. 

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STEP 2: To Create a New Organization, Click CREATE ORGANIZATION  button at the top right corner and the following screen appears. Fill in all the necessary information.

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• CODE

• NAME

• ADDRESS

• PHONE NUMBER

• OTHER CONTACT DETAILS

STEP 3: The organizations already existing can be edited/deleted by clicking on ACTIONS. Once you click on EDIT  a similar page in Step 2 appears, make the necessary changes and SAVE.

NOTE: EXPORT allows us to download the list of organizations created on Dineconnect in an Excel format.

LOCATION

Location can be the restaurant outlets or branch of the chain of restaurants where the transactions happen. The locations are where the POS is established and the POS systems are connected to DineConnect. The locations have to be created in the Dine Connect to access its data. 

Create and Update Locations

STEP 1: Log in to DineConnect. Go to CONNECT module --> LOCATION --> LOCATION. The below page opens.

• On this page, we can see the existing locations. 

• ID is the autogenerated identification code which system uses for identification purposes.

• Organization shows to which organization the location belongs to.

• The code is used for identification.

• The account date shows when the inventory was closed last in the location. 

STEP 2: To create a new location, click on the CREATE LOCATION button on the top right. The below page opens.

Basic Information

Fill in the details asked,

• In Organization, fill in the Organisation to which the location has to be associated, Location name, Code.

• Location Address

• Contact details, etc. 

Schedules

• Add the store timings. Continous and Slot timings both can be added. If the store runs after 12.00 AM then add the time in Business Hours Since Midnight.

Settings

In this, we can enable some of the functions for the location like allowing purchase, allow production and other settings. 

When a purchase is allowed, the purchase module is enabled in House.

When production is allowed, the production module is enabled in House.

Urban Piper

This creates the location in the Urban Piper system for integration with online aggregator platforms such as Zomato, Foodpanda, Swiggy, Dunzo. 

Note: This is only if the client requires integration with Urban Piper.

Receipt

This allows us to create a header and footer for receipt.

Tax Settings: Will allow us to make item prices inclusive of taxes.

STEP 3: If you want to edit the LOCATIONS, you can go to STEP 1 and Click Actions. From the Dropdown, you can select EDIT. It takes to the Location Page where you can modify the Location values. 

You can delete any locations by clicking on DELETE.

NOTE: The locations can also be created using an excel sheet. For this, import a template using the IMPORT button. add the locations on the sheet and upload the sheet.

LOCATION GROUP

There are some cases where it is required to group a few locations together. Examples for such cases, if a group of 5 out of 10 locations has the same menu prices, and the next 3 have similar prices and the other 2 have the same prices then we can group these locations in a set and define prices.

Create and Update Location Groups

STEP 1: Go to CONNECT --> LOCATION --> LOCATION GROUP. The below page appears.

Here you can see the groups created. To see the locations associated with a location group click on the checkbox in the select column of that Location Group.

STEP 2: To create a new location group, click on the +ADD  button. The below appears, add NAME, Code and click on SAVE button.

STEP 3: The new location group will now be added. To add the locations to the group, click on the checkbox next to the Location Group. 

Click on ADD LOCATION on the right pane marked in the picture. 

STEP 4: A pop-up as shown below appears, Select the locations required to group and click on SAVE. The selected locations will be added to the group as shown. 

NOTE:

• The location groups already created can be modified by selecting the group and clicking on EDIT. 

• The existing groups can be deleted by clicking on DELETE.

LOCATION TAG

The location tag can be added to the location/group of locations. 

Create and Update Location Tag

STEP 1: Go to CONNECT --> LOCATION --> LOCATION TAG. The below page appears.

STEP 2: To create a new location tag, click on the +ADD  button. The below appears, add NAME, Code and click on SAVE button.

STEP 3: The new location tag will now be added. To add tag the locations with the tag created, click on the checkbox next to the Location tag. 

Click on ADD LOCATION on the right pane marked in the picture. 

STEP 4: A pop-up as shown below appears, Select the locations required to group and click on SAVE. The selected locations will be added to the group as shown.

NOTE:

• The location groups already created can be modified by selecting the group and clicking on EDIT. 

• The existing groups can be deleted by clicking on DELETE.