https://community.toasttab.com/t5/restaurant-operations/how-to-best-enter-large-make-ahead-orders-for-a-food-truck/m-p/5444#M2118 <P>Hi there,<BR /><BR />I have one location that occasionally makes large amounts of items ahead of time that is then served sold out of a food truck.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Right now, we are just writing notes for the kitchen crew, but it would obviously be better to enter these in as scheduled orders with zero cost, but there a few issues with that and am looking for some suggestions/ideas of how to best do this. Here are the issues I have found so far:<BR /><BR />* I don't really want these pre-made orders throwing off orders for the in-store items, so I am planning on using different menu items and I also don't want to throw off sales, so I plan on making these pre-made items be zero cost<BR />* Ideally, I would only have a few people (managers, food truck manager) be able to enter these items, but I don't think that is possible, so it seems the best I can do is create a new menu only for the POS and just train staff not to use that menu?<BR />* Ideally, the food truck manager could create a scheduled order from anywhere at anytime, but as the toast backend doesn't seem to support any order input, the best I can think would be to use an emulator and since it is a $0 order, that would work<BR /><BR />A few other things I have looked at:<BR /><BR />* Using Xtrachef central kitchen, the issue there is that it doesn't really seem to create a scheduled order for the POS? In other words, it wouldn't go through a kitchen<BR />* Using the toast go device to enter orders make ahead orders, but we typically keep that with the food truck and not the manager, so that isn't ideal<BR /><BR />There are some fairly straight forward workarounds, but I did want to ask to this broader group if I am missing something!<BR /><BR />Thanks</P> Thu, 07 Sep 2023 23:52:43 GMT addisonj 2023-09-07T23:52:43Z https://community.toasttab.com/t5/restaurant-operations/how-to-best-enter-large-make-ahead-orders-for-a-food-truck/m-p/5444#M2118 <P>Hi there,<BR /><BR />I have one location that occasionally makes large amounts of items ahead of time that is then served sold out of a food truck.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Right now, we are just writing notes for the kitchen crew, but it would obviously be better to enter these in as scheduled orders with zero cost, but there a few issues with that and am looking for some suggestions/ideas of how to best do this. Here are the issues I have found so far:<BR /><BR />* I don't really want these pre-made orders throwing off orders for the in-store items, so I am planning on using different menu items and I also don't want to throw off sales, so I plan on making these pre-made items be zero cost<BR />* Ideally, I would only have a few people (managers, food truck manager) be able to enter these items, but I don't think that is possible, so it seems the best I can do is create a new menu only for the POS and just train staff not to use that menu?<BR />* Ideally, the food truck manager could create a scheduled order from anywhere at anytime, but as the toast backend doesn't seem to support any order input, the best I can think would be to use an emulator and since it is a $0 order, that would work<BR /><BR />A few other things I have looked at:<BR /><BR />* Using Xtrachef central kitchen, the issue there is that it doesn't really seem to create a scheduled order for the POS? In other words, it wouldn't go through a kitchen<BR />* Using the toast go device to enter orders make ahead orders, but we typically keep that with the food truck and not the manager, so that isn't ideal<BR /><BR />There are some fairly straight forward workarounds, but I did want to ask to this broader group if I am missing something!<BR /><BR />Thanks</P> Thu, 07 Sep 2023 23:52:43 GMT https://community.toasttab.com/t5/restaurant-operations/how-to-best-enter-large-make-ahead-orders-for-a-food-truck/m-p/5444#M2118 addisonj 2023-09-07T23:52:43Z