How much time do your waiters spend taking orders?
Enter your front-of-house staff and the tables you serve: the calculator tells you how many hours go on orders, how many waits and wrong orders you spare guests and how much overtime the time Takeat gives back could cover.
Your figures
€/month
Gross pay, contributions, extra monthly payments and severance: your payroll consultant has the figure
hours/week
days/week
The first one, then another round, desserts, coffee
min
From reaching the table to the ticket in the kitchen, questions about the menu included
%
Out of 100: misheard dish, unreadable handwriting, a slip retyping it at the till
hours/month
The result
Time the floor spends taking orders every day
4 h
Times a day a guest waits for a waiter to order
80
Wrong orders avoided every month
42
Overtime hours the time given back can cover every month
20
Hours a month spent taking orders
104
Working days spent taking orders every month
16
Share of front-of-house time
20%
Front-of-house cost per table
€7.21
Hours Takeat gives back to the floor in a year
1,248
An estimate: a month counts as 52/12 weeks and a working day is the weekly hours divided by the days open.
How Takeat helps your waiters
Taking the order is the job guests can do themselves, without mistakes. Your waiters get more time for hospitality.
Less waiting for guests
Guests scan the QR code on the table and order when they are ready, another round or coffee included, without trying to catch a waiter's eye.
Fewer wrong orders
The ticket reaches the kitchen as the guest wrote it: no copying out, no handwriting to decode, no dishes to make again and throw away.
The bill is ready
Every dish is tied to the cover that ordered it: the bill adds itself up, split per person if needed.
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Frequently asked questions
How much time does a waiter spend taking orders?
It depends on how many tables they look after and how often those tables order, but in a full service orders easily take a fifth of front-of-house time: 40 tables a day, two orders per table and 3 minutes per order make 4 hours a day. Enter your own figures to get yours.
How is the time the floor spends taking orders worked out?
Multiply the tables served by the orders each table places and by the minutes each order takes. For the monthly figures the calculator counts 52 weeks divided by 12, about 4.33 weeks rather than 4, and compares the result with the hours the whole floor works.
How long does taking an order take?
Usually 2 to 4 minutes, between walking over, questions about the menu, writing it down and passing it to the kitchen. And a table often orders more than once: the first order, then another round, desserts, coffee. Time a service and enter your own figures.
What does the floor do with the time Takeat gives back?
It goes to the guests: welcoming them, recommending a wine or a dessert, looking after every table more closely, getting through the peaks without rushing. Takeat takes care of the order, your waiters of the hospitality.
Does Takeat help cut overtime?
It can: orders pile up at peak times, which are often the hours that make shifts run long. The calculator shows how much of today's overtime the time given back to the floor could cover.
More time for your guests
With Takeat guests order from their phone and tickets go straight to the kitchen. The first five restaurants to sign up use it for free.
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