When a server using a “staff bank” closes out the staff bank, the closing report will ask for an amount of cash due from server. This amount, as I understand it, is the amount of cash sales, minus any gratuities. However, sometimes the gratuities are larger than the amount of cash sales, and the report states an amount that is owed to the server. My question is this – does the POS automatically subtract this amount owed to the server from the total cash on hand?

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If you owe money to the server on their cashier out report, then whatever is in their pocket plus what you owe them is their tips for the day. If the server owes the restaurant money then they take their cash for the day subtract what they owe the restaurant and that is what they have made for the day.

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I’ve been open for a few years and I’d like to backup my database and start a new one with all the same menu items but none of the sales information- how can I do this? And how would I look at my old sales if I needed to get access to them again?

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Before you do anything you will want to make a backup of your current database, and know the path to the file incase you need to access any of this information you will need to disconnect from your current database and connect to the backup database. Now to delete all of your trasactions prior to a certain date you will want to open a program named “adDBcleaner30” this is part of the Aldelo installation. 

This program will be found by going to mycomputer>local disk>program files>aldelo>Aldelo For Restaurants>Aldelo for Restaurants Tools>Database Cleaner>adDBcleaner30

 

After Selecting the cleaner you will then have to specify the location of your current database and then enter the date that you would like to have all of the transactions deleted prior too. After all of this information has been populated you will want to shut down the Aldelo on all of your stations, and then select the “Start Cleaning” button. If the cleaner errors out then you most likely haven’t shut down your Aldelo software on all of your stations.

 

You have now sucessfully deleted all transactions.

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Can you print duplicate kitchen tickets? I’d like the kitchen to have two copies of each ticket. I know you can use duplicate paper but is there a way in the software that this can be setup?

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Yes the best way to print duplicate Kitchen tickets would to set up Kitchen printer 2 but with the same printer as Kitchen 1 and then you would have to go into each menu item on page 2 of the settings you can select “Print Item to Additional Printers” and then select the kitchen printer sending the same check twice to the printer. You would have to do this for each menu item you want two tickets sent for, there is no global setting to control this.

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