Technical Note: 20011004042

Building a Maitre'D Database

(Maitre'D 2002, and later versions of Maitre'D)
At this point you should have a fully functional system and you are ready to enter your data. For experienced Maitre'D users, you can follow the next procedures to build your database. For those who are not too familiar with the system, see the P.O.S. Control manual.
Event Description Module Menu
Date Control You can modify dates used by the Back-Office with this option. You may change the beginning and the ending date of the year, the first day of the week, the last closed day, and the last daily report. You can also change the number of weeks per accounting period.

System Configuration
 Tools, Date Control
Menu name, modes description, restaurant names and address… You can enter the menu's name, the description of the modes (price levels), the restaurant's name, address and edit messages printing on the guest check.

P.O.S. Control
 Menu, Options
Logical Printer You enter a description for your different logical printers.

P.O.S. Control
 Workstation, Logical Printer
Physical Printer You can program all physical printers used system wide.

P.O.S. Control
 Workstation, Physical Printer
Tax Categories You can enter a description to group your different taxes in your tax report.

P.O.S. Control
 Payments, Tax Category
Tax You can program all taxes used system wide.

P.O.S. Control
 Payments, Tax
Media Types You can program the different media types accepted to settle checks.

P.O.S. Control
 Payments, Media Types
Divisions Categories You can enter the description used by the report generator to group the different divisions.

P.O.S. Control
 Menu, Division Category
Divisions You can enter the description used to group your sales items in your report.

P.O.S. Control
 Menu, Division
Groups and Miscellaneous You can program a description for the sales items group and for the description printing when using the "open key" function.

P.O.S. Control
 Menu, Groups and Misc.
Sales Item You can program all sales items, modify… to be used by the restaurant.

P.O.S. Control
 Menu, Item Setup…
Combo Meals You can program the group of items which you define as a "combo"

P.O.S. Control
 Menu, Combo Meal
Screen layout setup You can enter a description for the different screens to be used at the workstations and you could set the button you will use at the workstations.

P.O.S. Control
 Screens, Screen Layout setup
Preferential Screen Setup You can program each button to be seen on a specific screen.

P.O.S. Control
 Screens, Preferential Screen Setup
CMD list description You can program each CMD screen name that you will use at the workstations

P.O.S. Control
 Screens, CMD list description
CMD list setup You can program each button to be seen on the a specific CMD screen

P.O.S. Control
 Screen, CMD list setup
Promotion You can program all discounts used by the restaurant.

P.O.S. Control
 Payments, Promotion
Tips and Service You can program a gratuity to be applied to a check.

P.O.S. Control
 Payments, Tips and Service
Employees Access You can specify which screen each job function can access.

P.O.S. Control
 Employees, Screen Access
Employees Configuration You can configure systems functionality for each P.O.S. function

P.O.S. Control
 Employees, Configuration
Employees You can program all employees accessing the workstations.

P.O.S. Control
 Employees, Employees
Workstation Settings You can program the functions and hardware specifics to each workstation.

P.O.S. Control
 Workstation, Options
General Configuration You can program a variety of setup information into the Back-Office.

P.O.S. Control
 View, Options
Configuration by Revenue Center You can enter a variety of setup information for a specific menu.

P.O.S. Control
 Menu, Options
Workstation Data You can generate the data specific to a workstation and create a LAN Boot Disk for DOS workstations.

Maitre'D Server
 Win workstation:
Workstation / Make Data
DOS workstation:
Workstation Make Boot Disk