Waiter mobile app

A mobile app that covers a waiter's whole job.

Open the table, build the order, send it to the kitchen. Split the check, take payment, refund it, close the table; all from the waiter app.

Table ordersReservationsOrder statusCheck splittingTable managementiPhone and Android
The menu screen in the dojofood waiter app, with the category rail and a photo item gridThe tables screen in the dojofood waiter app, showing a table with an open check and empty tables
Capabilities

What stands out

Taking the order at the table

  • Adding items from the menu to the basket and creating the order
  • Item search by category, visually rich, and by voice
  • Filtering by guest preference: vegetarian, vegan, gluten free
  • Viewing different menus: breakfast, dinner
  • Showing required and optional option groups
  • Seeing the choices inside a combo and building the order the guest wants
  • Removing an ingredient from the recipe: no onion, no sauce, no cheese
  • Typed or dictated notes, per item or for the whole order

Table actions and the check

  • Table availability: empty, occupied, reserved, unavailable, needs cleaning
  • Filtering by table status
  • Opening a cleaning request for a table
  • Moving a table to an empty one, or merging occupied tables
  • Transferring items between tables
  • Splitting an order: moving items to a new table, or running two separate checks on the same table
  • Taking a reservation and reserving the table
  • Viewing table reservations

Fiscal POS and e-Adisyon

  • With the fiscal POS integration, a payment request or a fiscal document request goes straight to the fiscal POS
  • The waiter takes payment and issues receipts and invoices without keying anything into the fiscal device
  • The state of the payment is followed on screen, and cancelled from the app if it needs to be
  • On a cash payment the fiscal receipt is printed from the fiscal POS device too
  • Guest details are captured in the app; the e-Invoice and e-Archive are produced through the fiscal POS
  • The e-Adisyon is created along with the order

Table orders and what the kitchen is doing

  • When the table orders again, a new order is created for the same table
  • Items on an order go straight to the kitchen they belong to
  • Seeing the order's state in the kitchen: preparing, ready
  • Collecting what is ready, serving it and marking it delivered

Check and payment

  • Collecting the whole check in one go
  • Paying for selected items, by quantity
  • Splitting the check evenly (1/n)
  • Partial payment by entering a free amount; the remainder shows on the table
  • Open account: the check of a guest you run an account with continues after the table closes
  • Cash, credit card, debit card, meal card

Comps, discounts and refunds

  • Route it through a manager, or give the waiter the permission
  • Comping an item or a whole order
  • Discounts on the whole order or on selected items: percentage or free amount
  • Refunding a payment to the guest
A closer look

Table management, ordering and payment.

Tables

Reading a table's status

Empty, occupied, reserved and needs-cleaning tables each carry their own colour and are read at a glance. An occupied table's card shows the cover count, how many items are open, the check total and the unpaid amount.

Areas of the restaurant

Pick one of the areas you defined, the garden, the upstairs room, the terrace, and see the tables in it. You can also filter tables by status: occupied, empty, reserved.

Seeing what is still owed

The collected and remaining amounts sit at the top of the card, and a table does not fall back to empty until the remainder is cleared or someone with the permission approves it.

The tables screen in the dojofood waiter app, showing a table with an open check and empty tables

Menu

A menu screen you can shape

The menu screen can be adjusted to the waiter's own preference. Everyone works the way they are comfortable working.

Filters, search and favourites

Dietary preferences and allergen information become filters, so you put the right suggestion in front of the guest: vegan, vegetarian, gluten free. You find an item by typing or by voice, and you recommend from the items you marked as favourites.

Item options and notes

While building the order the waiter sees the required and optional choices for the item on screen, and takes the order from the guest correctly. Notes go on a single item or on the order as a whole.

The menu screen in the dojofood waiter app, with the category rail and a photo item grid

Table detail

Everything the table has ordered

The table's name, its status and every order entered against it sit together. Each round is listed on its own order card, and the card header carries the order number, the time and the round's total.

Where each item is

Next to every item you see its preparation state and how long it has been since it was ordered. What the kitchen is doing with an item is read on that item's own line.

Payment and what's left

The item count, the total, the amount paid and the amount remaining are all on the table detail. From here you move straight to payment, or create a new order for the table.

The order detail screen of an open table in the dojofood waiter app

Table actions

Discounts and comps

Following your business settings, you comp a guest either with a manager's approval or on the waiter's own initiative. Discounts go on the whole order or on the items you pick, as a percentage or as a free amount.

Moving and merging tables

From table actions you move a table to an empty one, merge two tables, or transfer the items you select to another table.

Changing the table's status

Change status marks the table as reserved, needs cleaning or unavailable.

The table actions page in the dojofood waiter app: discount, clean the table, table actions and change status

Payment

Taking the payment

You take the full amount, pay by item, or split the check. For guests you run an account with you keep the check open. You pick the payment method and the payment type, and the transaction is done.

Fiscal POS integration

With the fiscal POS integration the waiter never keys anything into the device by hand. Choose credit or debit card and the amount to collect is sent to the fiscal POS. On cash payments the fiscal receipt is printed straight from the fiscal POS as well.

e-Invoice and e-Archive

Enter the details of the guest who wants an invoice in the app, and the e-Invoice and e-Archive are produced through the fiscal POS.

The payment screen in the dojofood waiter app: payment type, payment method and document details
Legal compliance

The e-Adisyon integration.

Under current Turkish tax rules, e-Adisyon has become mandatory for restaurants, patisseries, cafeterias and similar food and drink businesses that offer table service and are taxed on actual earnings. The integration is free on every dojofood subscription.

A waiter showing the order on their phone to guests at the table
The service loop

From the order to the payment, every step is in the waiter app.

Think of everything a waiter does across a shift; the waiter app covers all of it. A waiter can run the whole day from the app.

The whole flow. Kitchen screen: Preparing.

From the field

Common problems.

The problems restaurants run into most often, and how dojofood resolves them.

A waiter leaving the pass with a tray to run service

The waiter writes the order down and keys it in at the till

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The waiter writes the order on paper at the table or keeps it in their head, then walks to the till to enter it into the system. In a busy service a queue forms at the till, or the entries come out wrong.

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The waiter creates the order on the mobile app while still standing at the table. Unless there is a particular reason, they never need to visit the till all day; most of what the till does can be done from the mobile app.

Adding to a table reprints the entire check as a kitchen ticket

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The table wants dessert and the system prints out the table's whole history again. The cook reads the paper from the top to find which line is new, and sometimes makes a dish that already went out.

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Every new order on a table becomes its own round. Only that round's ticket goes to the kitchen, the table's history stays on the check, and each round is followed separately from the table detail.

Items cannot be separated by kitchen station

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Every item on the order is shown at every station, or the same ticket comes out of every station's printer. Each station has to pick its own items out of the kitchen ticket.

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Every item is tied to a kitchen station in the catalog; when the order is created the items are split and sent to the right stations.

Reaching for a calculator to split the check

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The table wants to split the payment and out comes a calculator, with rounding differences turning into an argument. The fiscal POS stays busy through the whole transaction, so other tables wait in line to pay. And because a person is doing the arithmetic, a wrong split only surfaces at the end of day reconciliation.

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Whether the guest pays the whole check, pays by item, splits by number of people or pays in pieces with free amounts, all of it is done easily from the mobile app.

A guest moves tables

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A guest wants to move halfway through the meal, or two tables become one. On some systems that means entering the order again, with a second ticket going to the kitchen on top of it.

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You move the table across easily, or select the items and transfer them to another table. If you prefer, you merge the two tables into one.

An open check closing quietly

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The table is cleared but there is money still uncollected. The record sits somewhere nobody looks; it surfaces at the end of the day, and by then nobody knows whose table it was or why the payment was never taken.

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If a table carries a balance it cannot be set straight to available. It can still be closed when it has to be, with a reason: the guest left without paying, it was comped, there is a dispute, or other. The reason is entered, and you can route the action through a manager if you want to.

Check and payment

Practical collection at the table, through the fiscal POS integration.

When the waiter taps "take payment" in the mobile app, the fiscal POS integration sends the amount to collect from the app to the fiscal POS device. The guest presents their card to the fiscal POS and the payment is taken. On a cash payment the fiscal POS produces the fiscal document or the information slip automatically.

The payment screen of the dojofood waiter app
Waiter mobile app

Opens the check, sets the payment method, starts the collection.

Fiscal POS device
Fiscal POS

Reads the card, takes the amount from the app, completes the fiscal side.

From the mobile app you can watch the state of a collection or a fiscal document being produced on the fiscal POS. When the collection completes, the payment lands on the table's record. How much was taken by which method is visible on the check.

On cash, the change due is calculated on screen. On a cash payment the fiscal receipt is printed from the fiscal POS device as well. Enter the details of a guest who wants an invoice in the mobile app, and the e-Invoice and e-Archive are produced through the fiscal POS.

Depending on the fiscal POS provider and the device, you can collect with cash, credit card, debit card and meal card.

A payment you have taken can be refunded, and every payment is refunded the same way. Depending on how you want to run it, the refund is done by the waiter or routed through a manager for approval.

For a guest you run an account with, you can leave the check open. The table closes, but the balance waits on that customer's account and you collect it at a later date.

One system

The waiter app works with the rest of the system.

POS system

A table a waiter opens on the mobile app appears at the till too, and tables and orders can be run from either side. Point of sale (POS)

Kitchen screen

The order appears on the kitchen screen straight away. As orders are prepared, their status updates in the waiter app. Kitchen display (KDS)

dojofood mobile

Download the app, open it with your account.

Waiters run orders at the table and managers take the pulse of the business from the same app. There is no separate system to set up; you sign in with your dojofood account and see your own floor with your own menu.

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The download is free; using it requires a dojofood account.

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Who it's for

A waiter app that adapts to every kind of business.

Every business that does table service runs the same loop. The app is set up around the way your business works.

Frequently asked questions

What operators ask about the waiter mobile app.

Are the waiter app and the manager app two different things?

dojofood has a single mobile app. What changes is the interface: users see different screens according to their role and permissions, and use the app for different purposes. A user in the waiter role sees a different set of screens than a user in the manager role. One app, and everyone works on what their own role covers.

Which devices can waiters use?

The dojofood mobile app is on the App Store and Google Play. Anyone on an Android or iOS phone or tablet can download it and start. You do not have to buy new devices; the mobile devices you already own will do.

Can waiters use the app on their personal phones?

Nothing stops them technically. Waiters sign in with their own username and password from their own phone or tablet and use dojofood. Some businesses would rather their waiters did not use personal devices; in that case the team signs in with their own credentials on the phones or tablets the business provides.

How long does it take a waiter to get used to the app?

The screen works on the check-pad logic waiters already know: open the table, tap the item, mark the options, review the order, send it to the kitchen. dojofood users work everything out on their own, without special training. When you do need help, you contact the dedicated representative assigned to your business, or you reach out to us.

Can we write notes on an order?

Yes. You write the note on a single item or on the whole order. You can type it or dictate it by speaking, and the note travels to the kitchen with the order.

What do we do if a guest wants to move tables?

You move the table across as it is, transfer the items you select to another table, or merge two tables into one.

Can we split the check and take payment?

Whatever the guest asks for: the whole check in one go, split by item, split by number of people, or collected piece by piece by entering a free amount.

Where do I see whether a table still owes money?

On the tables screen for every table at once, and on the table's own detail screen for that table. At a glance you see whether a balance is left and how much it is.

How does the dojofood mobile app work with a fiscal POS device?

The waiter starts the payment from the app and the amount to collect goes to the fiscal POS device. The guest presents their card to the device, the result comes back to the app, and the payment lands on the table's record. On a cash payment the payment detail is recorded in dojofood and the app asks the fiscal POS device to produce the fiscal document; the fiscal POS issues it. The waiter never keys anything into the fiscal POS by hand.

Do you accept meal cards?

Yes. Alongside cash, credit card and debit card, you can also collect with a meal card. Which meal cards are accepted depends on the fiscal POS provider you work with and the devices you use.

Can a payment be refunded from the waiter app?

Yes, you can refund any payment you have taken from the app. Depending on how you want to run it, the waiter does the refund or it goes to a manager for approval.

Can we leave the check open for a guest we run an account with?

Yes. On the payment screen you choose open account; the table closes, the balance waits on that customer's account, and you collect it at a later date.

Can an e-Invoice or e-Archive be issued at the table?

Yes. You enter the details of the guest who wants an invoice from the mobile app; the e-Invoice and e-Archive are produced through the fiscal POS. On a cash payment the fiscal receipt is printed from the fiscal POS device too.

Do we pay extra for the e-Adisyon integration?

No, the e-Adisyon integration is free on every dojofood subscription; dojofood charges nothing extra for it. The only thing you buy yourself is the credit from the e-document provider you work with.

Can a waiter comp an item or apply a discount?

You decide, as the business, whether waiters are allowed to comp and to discount. Where they have that permission, waiters comp or discount directly. Where you route it through a manager, the action takes effect once the manager approves it.

A discount can be a percentage or a free amount, applied to the whole order or to the items you select. In the same way you can comp an item, or the whole order.

What happens when an order has to be cancelled?

A cancellation asks for a reason, and you can route it through a manager if you want to. The reason list is defined in the system; you pick which order or which item is being cancelled. Cancellations are collected in the end of day cancellation report.

What happens if a table is cleared with an open balance?

If a table carries a balance it cannot be set straight to available. To close it you pick a reason: the guest left without paying, it was comped, there is a dispute, or other. The reason goes on the record, and you can route the action through a manager if you want to.

Does the app work without internet?

No, the app works online.

Can the app be used in other languages?

Yes. dojofood supports 15 languages. The language preference is per user, so waiters use the app in their own language.

Can I try it before buying?

Yes. We offer a 7 day free trial, and there is a 30 day money back guarantee on top of it. You try the app in your own business and decide from there.

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