Dining table types specify seating capacity (general, minimum, and maximum) and shape for dining tables and are used to assign those characteristics to the dining tables in all your dining areas. If you want to change the seating capacity and shape of a dining table you need to assign to it a different dining table type.
Note:The dining table's type does not depend on the dining area layout, it is always the same.
When you allocate dining tables and combined tables to reservation entries, the program uses the minimum and maximum capacity of the tables to show only those tables suitable for the requested number of guests. You can assign a rank number to dining table types to sort the dining tables by a certain order of dining table types.
To set up a dining table type
- Go to the Dining Table Types page.
- Click New, and insert a new type with an ID and description.
- Refer to the field help for Dining Table Type for more information.
To assign a dining table type to a dining table
- Go to the Dining Areas page.
- Click Dining Area - Dining Tables.
- In the Dining Table Type ID field, select the dining table type you wish to use.