The tablet menu: install it, and make it work with no WiFi

Four Android tablets for the terrace, where the WiFi is patchy.

1. 1On the dashboard, open Menu › QR codes and download Menulisa Menu for Android. Copy it to the tablet and install it (Android will ask you to allow the install once).
2. 2Open it and choose Sign in. Step 1, Which restaurant?: point the camera at the QR on any of your tables — it finds the restaurant and the table at once — or use Or paste the menu link. Confirm the restaurant.
3. 3Step 2, Which table is this tablet on?: keep the table it found, or enter a staff POS PIN to pick one from your tables, Scan its QR or Type its code. A tablet at the door can be No table — browse only.
4. 4Step 3, Saving the menu to this tablet: it saves the menu and prices, the photos, and the fonts and languages. Then press Open the menu and mount it.
5. 5Guests browse. After a minute and a half of no touches it shows the Hungry? waiting screen, ready for the next guest.

• The menu keeps showing from the copy saved on the tablet, with an Offline pill. Ordering and calling staff need the connection and come back by themselves.
• While the tablet is online it shows your live menu, so a menu edit reaches it without anyone doing anything.

1. 1Press and hold the table chip at the top of the menu for 3 seconds and enter your POS PIN. (No table, or on the waiting screen? Hold the restaurant’s name instead.)
2. 2The Staff sheet has Reload the menu, Save photos again (after a big change — a new season’s menu with new photos), the Table, the Guest language, Change the restaurant and Lock now. Press Done to go back; it locks itself after a few minutes.