Maitre'D 2005 can only be updated from Maitre'D 2003. If your system dates back from before Maitre'D 2003, you must first upgrade it to 2003 before proceeding with the following steps.
Recommended steps to upgrade to 2005 release:
3. Items Grouped in Variable Lists
4. Cleanup Duplicate Preferential Screens
7. Grant Revenue Center Access
8. Cleanup Duplicate Sales Items
9. Create Open Price Item to Replace Miscellaneous
10. Create Open Description Items to Replace Open Remarks
11. Create Upsizes to Replace Shift buttons
12. Setup Items Countdowns to Replace Decreasing Sales Units
To be able to offer so many new functionalities, we had to drop support of the NetBIOS communication through Serial Multiplexers and DOS workstations. Therefore, the only supported Lan Type is now TCP/IP. Make sure this field is set to the proper selection, and replace any obsolete equipment in your network.
After updating to 2005, the archived checks and summaries, needed for reports, are unreadable by Maitre'D because of the modified Item structure. To make these archives usable, start this function during a quiet period of the day, because depending on the number of files, it could take some time.
We modified the structure of the database so that the Sales Items are now at the core of the system, as opposed to the former structure that had the menus, or revenue centers, at the core of the system. Therefore, the concept of Linking Menus is obsolete, and Sales Items in different Revenue Centers can be ordered on the same guest and billed on the same check.
Groups and Items Lists no longer exist. Instead, the system converts these to Variable Lists of up to 100 Sales Items and links them to buttons on Preferential Screens. You should verify all Variable Lists on all Preferential Screens to make sure all Sales Items are showing up.
Since Menus no longer exist, and have been replaced by a Revenue Center notion, you may be able to reduce the number of needed Preferential Screens if you had had identical Preferential Screens is separate Menus. Remove the extraneous ones, but if you had Buttons that linked to Preferential Screens in other Menus, make sure that these buttons now point to the proper remaining Screens.
Likewise, some Weighted Modifiers might point to buttons on the preferential screens you are removing. If so, make sure to redirect them to buttons on the remaining preferential screens.
If you added your own custom icons to Preferential Screens with the Screen Editor, you will need to add them again, as the graphics tools were greatly enhanced, and now include many new icons, as well as new objects for the floor plan, and these new graphics might have overwritten your custom ones.
Employees Access is no longer limited to 4 Revenue Center. You can give them access to any Revenue Center by enabling the following option:
8. Cleanup Duplicate Sales Items
We divided the Items Setup into a Tree and Branches structure. During the update, the system tries to find identical items on different menus and to combine these items into a single Sales Items with different Revenue Centers. However, if similar Sales Items from different menus had a slight difference in the spelling, for example, they are considered as different items with their own records. You may want to combine these together in one item and delete the other(s), after making sure that all Preferential Screens and Variable Lists are linked to the new combined item.
When selecting an Item's branch, it opens up the item's revenue center and mode configuration.
Use the Add button to create a new Revenue Center and Mode Configuration.
Use the Copy button to copy the currently selected revenue center and mode configuration to other revenue center and mode configurations.
You must now recreate new Open Priced Sales Items and include their Buttons on your Preferential Screens, to replace any former Miscellaneous Groups. The employees must key in a price every time they select those items. This method, compared to the miscellaneous method, has the advantage of offering all other Items Setup functions, such as links and weighted modifiers.
Second, setup buttons for the Open Price items on a preferential screen.
Items, Item Lists, Course, Discount...
Item
Open Price item
On the workstation, select the Open Price item and enter the price manually.
You must now recreate new Open Description Sales Items and include their Buttons on your Preferential Screens, to replace any former Open Remarks. The employees must type in a description every time they select that item. This method, compared to the open remark method, has the advantage of offering all other Items Setup functions, such as links and weighted modifiers. As well, this way, it will automatically be shown on the Order Screen, when you order and when you come back to the table later, as well as when performing a Check Inquiry.
Second, setup buttons for the Open Description items on a preferential screen.
Items, Item Lists, Course, Discount...
Item
Open Description item
On the workstation, select the Open Description item and enter the description manually.
You must now recreate new Upsize Buttons on your Preferential Screens, to replace any former Shift Buttons. You can use up to ten different Upsize formats.
First, to make this option available, setup the following button:
Item Command
Upsize
Upsize # [1 to 10]
Enable this option to have the employee press the size button before touching the base sales item to be upsized, in the same sequence as the former Shift function.
Second, in the base sales item, indicate another upsized sales item to replace it when selected in combination with the upsize button.
Finally, setup a button for the base sales item on the preferential screen.
Items, Item Lists, Course, Discount...
Item
Base sales item
On the workstation, touch the base sales item (Sm. Coke) followed by the Upsize button (Large) to get the upsized sales item. (Lg. Coke).
Enable this field to link the Value in the field below to the availability of this item.
Enter the quantity of this item currently available.