Halls, arranging the room, and keeping the map honest
Split the venue into areas, lay tables out to match reality, and know what to do when the room changes.
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The map is only useful if it looks like the room. Halls split a big venue into the areas staff already use — Indoor, Terrace, Bar, Upstairs — and each hall is its own canvas to arrange.
The scenario
You’re moving the two-seaters from the window to make room for a long table for a private dinner on Saturday, and on Monday you’re moving them back.
Halls
- 1Press Add hall and name it. Rename or reorder halls from their tabs. Every table lives in exactly one hall.
- 2Move a table between halls by editing it and choosing the new hall — its history and QR code come with it.
- 3On the POS, halls are the tabs across the top of the floor view, so a waiter working the terrace sees only the terrace.
- 4In All halls, drag a hall to where it really is — beside another, under it, or into another hall’s gap. It lines up with the halls around it and keeps the usual space (hold Alt to place it freely); tap a hall for Open hall, Turn 90° and ⋯. A hall whose walls close a room takes their shape — even with its walls left off the floor plan. Tidy up puts the halls back in rows, and the POS All tab shows them the way you placed them.
Arranging
- Drag to move. Tables snap so rows line up without fiddling.
- Rotate with the handle when a table sits at an angle in the real room. The chairs turn with it.
- Resize by seats — a table’s footprint follows its seat count, so an 8-seater draws bigger than a 2-seater. You don’t set a size; you set the seats.
- Nothing overlaps — chairs included. That rule is what stops the map drifting into a cartoon.
- Sofas and swings are seats — push a sofa, bench, armchair, lounge corner or garden swing up to a table with its seat side and the chairs it touches give way: it’s their seat on the POS floor and in 3D. A sofa with its back to the table leaves the table its chairs.
- Save — moves and turns wait in the save bar at the bottom (listed as Save layout) until you press Save, or Discard to put everything back. Adding or removing a table saves any pending moves first.
Saturday’s private dinner
- 1Add a Rectangle table, Long1, seats 10. Drag the window two-seaters aside for it.
- 2On Monday, drag the two-seaters back and delete Long1 — or deactivate it and keep it for next time. A deactivated table disappears from the POS but keeps its place and its history.
TipOnce you press Save, the new layout shows on every POS within a few seconds. You don’t have to tell staff to refresh — but do tell them a table moved, because their muscle memory won’t have.
More in Floor plan & tables
All of Floor plan & tables- Adding a single tableAdd one table with a name, a seat count and a shape, and put it where it really stands.
- Adding many tables at onceCreate a whole numbered run — T1 to T20 — in one go, without typing twenty names.
- Shapes — and how to build a bar where every seat is its own ticketSquare, round, rectangle, booth, high-top, counter — and the one trick for bar seating that bills per stool.
- Using the floor during serviceWhat the colours mean, how to open a table, and what a ring around a table is telling you.
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