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Manual Order Taking vs Digital Order Taking

Manual order taking is a pad and memory. Digital order taking is a menu on a phone. SpoonCub is the digital pad for staff, not a guest app.

Manual feels faster until two people write the same table or the price was last month's. Digital is faster once the menu is in the system.

Manual

  • No training and no battery.
  • The record disappears at close.
  • Fine under a very small ticket count.

Digital, on SpoonCub

  • Prices come from the menu you edited.
  • The open table cannot be ordered twice as two blank slips.
  • History remains after the table is cleared.

Which one to run

Move when you reprint bills from memory. Stay manual if the pad never causes a wrong plate.

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