Hey guys,
I would like to introduce my setup for my restaurant and bakery, we have been open now for 9 years now and I have done all the networking and pc setup myself, and I have no qualification what so ever, so I’m sure I have asked many a redundant question over the last 4 years on this forum.
I have a server running Server 2012, plus an office PC for adding products and playing around with new cool things for SambaPOS. most of my pc’s are running Windows 7 & 10. are 2.5Ghz with 4 gig ram.
The chef has a 15" touch screens that I added a VGA splitter with another screen to so the chefs on the other end of the line can see his mirror image but this obviously isn’t a touch screen because of the slitter.
I’m adding another 19’ inch monitor next to the 15" touch screen in the kitchen so I can use another ticket view on the 19" (non touch screen) for display purposes. Let me explain: many times the chef misses tickets that are added during lunch time as they are way below out of sight on the small 15" using a number 9 font. Touch screens are very expensive in South Africa, so unfortunately I have to work around this by using 15" touch screens, otherwise the chef would have a nice big screen!
So the 19" will have a better view of the tickets in a better layout, but the 15" touch we will send orders with. The 19" will also have a VGA splitter on it and will show the extra screen all the way down the line as well.
In total the kitchen has 4 screen one main touch screen and two monitors.
Additional to this on the hot pass I will have a smaller 17" monitor just to show the runner what hes taking and where, as we are using runners more and more, so the exact order they are not sure of, as a fail safe I also have a ticket printer in the kitchen which usually goes with the food to the table to make sure we have all the special requests done.
Our food is shipped from one kitchen to two different seating areas about 60 meters apart, so setting this up has been fun and very frustrating over the last year.
We have two touch screens for waiters at the restaurant front of house and another two touch screens for the waiters at our coffee shop (two different businesses) Plus another pc that runs a touch screen for the hot drinks maker with a splitter to the specialty drinks maker that are in the prep area.
I actually dug a trench and laid 100m of ethernet cable in conduit to my switch in our coffee shop & bakery for all this networking possibility.
Food is ordered from all seating areas (four in total) and all gets send to the main kitchen, runners send food out to the right table, specialty drinks are ordered and will appear in the drinks kitchen that is 60 meters away from food kitchen, and then the runners will send it to the right area as well.
I have 10 Pc’s runnning 6 touch screens monitors and 7 additional monitors (using VGA splitters). running of 4 switches with about a total of 200m of ethernet cable between the two businesses, we have 100 seats under cover and inside and about 80 seats in the gardens.
My next experiment is with V5 and the kitchen timers and colours and then finally introducing tablets before December.
All this using Sambapos and this wonderful forum, on a side note I remember when JohnS and emre were the guiding figures on the forum during my first exposure to sambapos using V2 in this same restaurant.
Like today we have @QMcKay and kendash and the many other guys who help out, basically If you have asked a question on the forum and got help by one of the members and re-posted your solution you are a contributor to this forum and for that I thank you.
We have a new website if you would like to have a look at our restaurant ZUCCHINI (still busy with better photos)
Some feedback would be great.
And Thank you all for making it possible… LONG LIVE THE SCREENSHOT TUTORIAL !