#Menu Management

[streamordersus]

Revolutionize Your Restaurant Operations with Stream: The Ultimate Menu & Order Management Solution

In the fast-paced world of food service, managing orders, menus, and delivery platforms can often feel like juggling too many balls at once.

The rise of third-party delivery services like Uber Eats, Grubhub, and DoorDash has made it even more challenging for restaurants to stay organized and efficient.

But now, there’s a solution that streamlines these operations and helps restaurants maximize their potential—Stream.

Stream is an all-in-one menu and order management platform designed to simplify restaurant operations. It allows you to manage and update your menu across all major third-party delivery platforms, sync your orders directly to your POS system, and much more.

Let’s take a closer look at how Stream can improve your restaurant’s performance and why it is the perfect tool for modern-day operations.

Key Features and Services Offered by Stream

1. Unified Menu Management 📋

One of Stream’s standout features is its ability to manage your restaurant’s menu from a single dashboard. Rather than manually updating each delivery platform separately, Stream connects to your POS system (such as Square or Clover) and enables you to make real-time updates that are automatically reflected across all your connected delivery services.

Whether you’re changing a price, adding a new dish, or modifying modifiers, Stream instantly publishes those changes to platforms like Uber Eats, Grubhub, and more, saving you time and eliminating potential errors.

Why It’s Important: Consistent menu updates across all platforms ensure your customers are always seeing the most accurate information, leading to a better customer experience and fewer issues with incorrect orders.

2. Real-Time Menu Updates ⏱️

The flexibility to make real-time changes is crucial in today’s dynamic restaurant environment. Stream offers real-time menu editing, meaning any changes you make—whether it's adjusting prices, adding or removing items, or tweaking modifiers—will be reflected immediately across all delivery platforms.

Why It’s Important: By offering real-time updates, Stream allows you to stay on top of menu changes, whether it’s a daily special, a price increase, or a supply chain issue.

This feature helps you maintain operational efficiency and ensures that your customers are always presented with the most up-to-date information.

3. No More Tablets 📱❌

One of the most cumbersome aspects of managing online orders is dealing with multiple tablets and devices. Each delivery platform often requires its own tablet, leading to clutter, confusion, and inefficiency.

Stream eliminates this problem by integrating directly with your POS system, sending all orders directly to your kitchen, where they can be tracked and processed with ease.

Why It’s Important: By removing the need for additional tablets, Stream simplifies your restaurant’s technology setup, reduces hardware costs, and minimizes errors caused by having to manage multiple devices.

Everything is integrated into your POS, making your order management process more efficient and streamlined.

4. Order Management 🛒

Managing orders efficiently is vital for the smooth running of any restaurant. With Stream, orders are automatically routed to your POS system, where they can be tracked, processed, and managed.

Stream provides tools for real-time order cancellations, direct communication with customers, and the ability to adjust prep times or throttle orders during peak periods.

Why It’s Important: By centralizing order management in one place, Stream ensures that your kitchen stays organized, reducing mistakes and improving the accuracy of your orders.

Real-time order tracking and communication also help enhance the customer experience by allowing you to address issues promptly.

5. Multi-Location Support 🌍🏪

If your restaurant operates across multiple locations, managing orders and menus can become a logistical nightmare. Stream simplifies this by allowing you to manage multiple locations from a single account.

Changes made to the menu at one location can be instantly reflected across all locations, and updates are automatically published to all your third-party platforms.

Why It’s Important: Multi-location management helps streamline operations for chains or franchises, ensuring that all your restaurants are aligned in terms of menu offerings, prices, and promotions.

This feature is ideal for restaurant groups that need to maintain consistency and efficiency across multiple locations.

6. Fast Setup and Self-Service ⚡🛠️

Setting up Stream is quick and straightforward, allowing you to connect your POS system in 10 minutes or less. The setup process is entirely self-service, meaning you don’t need to wait on customer support or speak to a representative unless you require help.

This easy and quick setup means you can start managing your menu and orders almost immediately.

Why It’s Important: Fast setup reduces downtime and ensures that your restaurant can get up and running without delays. It also allows restaurant owners to take control of their own systems without needing constant support or external intervention.

7. Pricing Customization Across Platforms 💵

Every third-party delivery service comes with its own fee structure, and Stream allows you to customize your pricing on each platform.

You can set different pricing strategies for each delivery service to maximize revenue while ensuring consistency and fairness across your menu items.

Why It’s Important: This flexibility enables you to account for different commission rates or fees charged by each platform, ensuring that your profit margins stay healthy and that your pricing strategy is optimized across all channels.

Why Stream is the Perfect Solution for Your Restaurant

Stream is designed to optimize the operations of restaurants, from small independent eateries to large multi-location chains. The platform saves you time, reduces errors, and increases operational efficiency.

With features like unified menu management, real-time order updates, and no need for extra hardware, Stream helps restaurants overcome common challenges related to third-party delivery services.

Here’s why Stream is a game-changer for your restaurant:

Time Savings: Streamlining menu management, order processing, and communication all in one platform helps save valuable time.

Error Reduction: Centralizing order and menu management minimizes the risk of errors and inconsistencies across platforms.

Increased Efficiency: With everything integrated into your POS system, your restaurant’s operations are more efficient and easier to manage.

Scalability: Whether you're a single-location restaurant or managing multiple locations, Stream scales with your needs.

Cost Savings: Say goodbye to the costs associated with multiple tablets and manual updates.

Conclusion: Take Your Restaurant to the Next Level with Stream

In today’s competitive restaurant industry, efficiency is key to staying ahead. Stream offers a powerful set of tools designed to help you manage your menu, orders, and delivery platforms with ease.

By streamlining your restaurant’s operations, reducing complexity, and offering real-time updates, Stream empowers you to deliver a seamless experience to your customers while saving time and money.

Get started with Stream today and experience the future of restaurant management—simplified, efficient, and ready to grow with your business!

[microinamin]

TouchBistro is a popular restaurant management system that provides a range of solutions for streamlining operations, enhancing guest experiences, and optimizing overall efficiency in the restaurant industry. Some key features and functionalities offered by TouchBistro include:

1. Point of Sale (POS) System: TouchBistro offers a comprehensive POS system that allows restaurants to efficiently process orders, manage table layouts, split checks, and accept various payment methods.

2. Menu Management: The platform enables restaurants to easily create, update, and customize menus, including item descriptions, pricing, and modifiers. It also supports menu item categorization and organization.

3. Tableside Ordering: TouchBistro facilitates tableside ordering through the use of iPads or other mobile devices, enabling servers to take orders directly from customers and transmit them to the kitchen instantly.

4. Inventory Management: The system provides inventory tracking and management tools, helping restaurants monitor ingredient levels, automate purchasing, and generate reports to optimize inventory control.

5. Reporting and Analytics: TouchBistro offers robust reporting capabilities, allowing restaurant owners and managers to track sales, analyze performance, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions to improve operations.

6. Staff Management: The platform provides features for managing staff schedules, tracking hours worked, and monitoring staff performance. It also supports role-based access and permissions.

7. Customer Relationship Management (CRM): TouchBistro includes CRM functionalities to help restaurants build and maintain customer profiles, manage loyalty programs, and track customer preferences and order history.

8. Integration and Add-Ons: TouchBistro integrates with various third-party applications and services, such as payment processors, accounting software, and online ordering platforms, to enhance its functionality and adapt to specific restaurant needs.

[an-albino-pinetree]

f l o o r b u r g e r

@kovox @justtheclippy @vixenvtuber < I hope you guys don’t mind the tag-! the stream was awesome!

[cobaltfluff]

just a quick silly thing for valentines !!

bonus:

[boygirlswag]

modern au laios would 100% be a zookeeper. i feel like they'd start him with mucking out the monkey pits but hes so good with kids that they eventually just let him do shows and demonstrations. actually where's the dungeon meshi we bought a zoo au

[bewylderbeest]

dumps all art i have of perrine i did while waiting for my computer to update :))

[lofi-bear]

anyways everyone look at my spacer war hero "crumbling under the pressure of being the perfect alliance legacy golden girl" commander shepard and her murder chickenbug boyfriend

[venusinmyrrh]

Care to effuse about The Menu?

Yes. Yes I would.

The Menu is underrated because of its incredible specificity. It's gained a reputation as an "eat the rich" movie, but it's not that at all! It's about the ways that rich people literally consume people's work with blithe entitlement— after all, they're the one's paying for it, aren't they? What does it matter that they don't even remember what they ate? What's it to the cooks, who poured all that time and effort and art into it? Why should they care? They're getting paid for it, aren't they?

The Menu is specifically about the experience of creating art for a living, especially for a wealthy clientele who have no taste of their own and just want whatever's hot at the moment. It's about the soul-crushing grind of keeping the forge going long after the fire's burned out, because they're still hungry, and you've got a living to make.

And they'll never be satisfied, because the wealthy lead lives of consumption without appreciation. They will take your work that you sweated over, that took years to perfect, and they will swallow it whole without even savoring it on the way down, and then they will demand something new to amuse them, something fresh for their Instagram stories, more content to feed the machine. Eventually, it just starts to suck. You become more and more divorced from what you love about your art, and the things you make become brittle and lifeless.

(And the kicker is, can the customers even tell your work sucks? Can you tell that it sucks? Do you even care? No! Because you're burnt out and they have no taste. It's not an accident that all the best metaphors for the characters and themes in this restaurant movie have to do with eating.)

Nowhere is this more clear than in the guests' actual interactions with Chef Julian. You will notice that as much as the diners in The Menu may or may not be impressed by him, they treat him with very little respect: they flout the house rules by taking pictures of the food, they nitpick flaws in dishes they could never make themselves, and they cannot name a single thing he has ever made for them. His sole job, in their eyes, is to provide them with a status boost, something they can brag about when they get back to their friends; the actual experience is negligible.

Is that not maddening? Especially to a man like Chef Julian, who is so detail-oriented that he precisely calculated each portion size based on digestion? That fish, the one his repeat customers don't even remember eating, must have been specifically chosen, even had the dish built around it, so no other would do. Chef Julian is right when he says that these people represent the ruin of his art— why bother putting love and care into your work when it gets horked down some greedy asshole's throat just the same?

The joy of watching Ralph Fiennes' performance as Chef Julian is watching him assert his power as, essentially, the god-king of Hawthorn. The guests came to his restaurant full of their own importance: food critic, actor, repeat patron, major investor, etc. They have given him the money and influence to get where he is, and they think that means he owes them... but he is the chef. They are at the mercy of what he gives them. They will jump when he claps; they will run and hide when he tells them to; they will take what they're given and they will like it. He is the one whose work, whose vision, whose reputation Hawthorn is built on, and he spends the entire night demonstrating that he cannot be owned (and drowning at least one person who tried).

It's ironic that Hawthorn's cuisine is so specifically tied to the island the place is built on— everything local, everything grown on-site or fished out of the ocean. It allows the clientele to feel eco-friendly, aligned with and respectful of nature, when in fact they treat Chef Julian and his staff the way they treat their assistants and their escorts and the subjects of their reviews: like an oil well, to be used and drilled and extracted and exhausted until completely empty.

It's significant that this final menu is not just a Chef Julian project; it's a collaboration among everyone in the kitchen. Multiple other cooks have contributed courses, so we know he's not making them do this— they've all been put through the same professional meat grinder, and they've all come out with their spirits and their sanity hacked to bits. Those rich assholes, through their commodification and entitlement and cruelty and disrespect, have drained the passion from this entire team... and it is so satisfying to watch them gasp and squirm and rage, only to realize that all the money and influence in the world won't save them when the thing they've been consuming decides to bite back.

TL;DR: The Menu is not about eating the rich. The rich are the ones doing the eating: of people's energy, labor, hopes, dreams, blood, sweat, and tears. The Menu is about making them choke on it.

[puppetmaster13u]

I was makin myself a potato waffle. And had a fun realization/idea.

I bet that there's at least a small waffle restaurant in Gotham. Look me in the eyes and tell me there isn't a place that sells Spoiler-themed waffles.

Chocolate filled, batter with edible glitter and purple dye, Spoiler Waffles that Stephanie absolutely loves.

[jax-interacts]

JAX ARE YOU GAY I MUST KNOW

(@mushroomanonguy)

Depends on how much money is on the table

[tabbyphobos]

So I've been playing Sims 4 right? And I think I got it.

It has no SOUL.

They keep adding in new content all the time because they hear that people want better gameplay, but they don't mean "more things to do."

They mean that the repetition is showing.

The Sims franchise has always been about repetition. Get a job, go to work, come home, attend to needs, try to make friends or learn skills. Live suburban life. Sims 2 have us goals, which made our experience richer as we try to manage these little people with their own agendas.

(I can't speak to Sims 3; I hated the open-world forcing single-household gameplay, and the aesthetic was terrible imo.)

Sims 4 does this too, but... Why is EVERYONE embarrassed by mischief interactions? Why is EVERYONE scared of thunderstorms? I have an entire neighborhood full of people who are either aspiring to Joke Star or are Foodies, and going between them is basically like playing the same week over. (Johnny Zest, Steve Fogel, June Kay, and Amber Stein, if you wanted to know.)

And I've been sowing discord! Bob and Eliza are both looking elsewhere for romantic fulfillment and trying to keep it secret. Amber Stein and Armand DiAggro are engaged but Armand caught Bob flirting with her at Bob's house because she's there EVERYDAY. Charlie is a menace to society, even to his roommates! I mixed up who a child wanted to be enemies with and made him go full asshole on his dad! Alexander Goth is bald and I don't know why!

But the reactions are always the same: bland. Someone gets mad but does nothing about it, except suddenly hate an activity that they need to do for their job. People become sad and are just slower at eating. Nobody gets into a fight unless I direct them, and even when I do they go back to their corners; no additional slapping or insults.

There are no extremes. Nothing bad, but nothing good either. Nobody gets fired for a chance card. Nobody really fails at anything. And nothing great happens. Getting married coats money and requires more hassle than it used to. Having a baby when you haven't the room or the money is inconsequential. Burglars are back but they just leave sims sad; they even tell you exactly what they stole so you can just re-buy it.

And I have no reason to care about any of these people. The household bio is all the story you get. Travis has so little personality he's made of gray paste. Olivia grew up into... Not really as lively as she was as a kid. Did I mention that Alexander Goth is bald?

Even the blandest families in 2 had some drama going on. The Aspirs and the Bells basically did a partner swap in their youth. The Baldwins have Uncle Carlos and all his bitches to deal with. What about Jason Cleveland's predilection for men? You wanted to hang with these families, see where they go. Because they COULD go in any direction.

Everybody but June in the Funny Foodies corner is a C-Lister. No fluctuation. They are all doing the same things. The most exciting things to happen in the Sims 4 world was Vivian and Dennis got married and adopted a couple of kids before they died. And Bella Goth had a baby without my knowledge or permission. (Don"t even get me started about how mad that made me.)

Nothing happens unless you make it happen, and when it does, no one cares, especially not your sims.

Is this why all sims 4 gameplays seem the same? Builds. Legacies. Rags to riches. 100 babies. Are people trying to FIND the fun in the game? I don't blame them.

2 may require a level of frustration, but at least it has heart. Sims 4 is a life simulation by committee. The edges are all shaved off and the experience is beige, bland, and pointless.

Paralives cannot come out soon enough.

[mercymaker]

trying to make bg3 work for me today got me like

[rootoftaboo]

sao survivor who survived by leaving the game on launch day because they were still in the create a character menu when kayaba started the death game and kayaba didn't account for people being in the create a character menu that long the player didn't even realise they dodged a bullet that closely they just exited out when they finished their avatar cus they were hungry