Glossary
Every word in the dashboard, explained.
Updated 26 October 2026
From A to Z
| Term | What it means in The Food Please |
|---|---|
| AI photo | Improves or creates a dish's photo with AI for 15 credits, with up to 3 versions. See Photos. |
| AI Waiter | Your menu's virtual AI waiter, with the name and personality you choose. See What the AI Waiter is. |
| Allergens not specified | Dishes with no allergen marked and not marked «No allergens». They don't appear as suitable in the «Without…» filters. Imported dishes say «Allergens: ask the staff» until you review them. |
| Average bill | What each bill pays on average. |
| Basic mode | The AI Waiter without AI answers (no credits, the month's 300 used up or past the daily cap): it carries on with the buttons and your menu data. |
| Bill (table) | Everything a table orders from the first order until it's paid. The customer can see it in the AI Waiter chat. |
| Central menu | With Several venues, the menu of one venue that is copied to the others. See Several venues. |
| Clear table | Closing a table as paid at the venue. Manager and owner. |
| «Coming right up!» | What the AI Waiter says when the order has gone to the kitchen. |
| Control group | The random 10 % of visits that don't see suggestions when ordering, to measure whether suggestions raise the bill. See Suggested sales. |
| Create your waiter | The screen where you choose the AI Waiter's name, voice, way of speaking, look and greeting. See Create your waiter. |
| Credits | One-off balance that pays for AI photos (15) and the AI Waiter's extra answers (1). They don't expire. |
| Customer club | Your list of customers who signed up from the menu. Included in your plan. See Club. |
| Daily cap | The AI answers the AI Waiter can give per day (250 unless you set another). See What it suggests and its limits. |
| Dishes (Menu › Dishes) | The dashboard page with your menu (dishes, options, set menu, categories, languages, design) and your venue settings. |
| Featured (★) | A dish shown with a star on your menu that the AI Waiter suggests first. |
| Founder price | Base plan 10 € cheaper, for life, for the first 30 venues to pay. |
| General QR | The menu's QR code without a table, for your shop window or social media. |
| Getting started | The 5 steps to get going, each with its own button. |
| Illustrative image | A photo created from scratch with AI. It carries that label on the menu. |
| Included answers | The 300 AI answers a month that come with the AI Waiter. |
| Kitchen (button) | Opens the kitchen screen: orders shown large, with sound. |
| Kitchen mode | A team tablet that always stays on the kitchen screen, without asking for a PIN. |
| Live | The dashboard's home screen: who's looking at your menu right now and what you've sold today. |
| Management report | The summary of a day's sales and payments. It isn't a tax document. |
| Module | Something you add to your plan (Bookings, Online payments, AI Waiter…). Turned on in Modules. See Plans. |
| Multilingual menu | Module to have your menu in up to 8 languages, translated automatically. English is already included. |
| No-show | A booking where nobody turned up. |
| «Noted!» | What the AI Waiter says when the customer adds something from the chat, along with the next suggestion. |
| Notifications | Instant alerts for orders, calls, payments and bookings on each phone, tablet or computer, even when the dashboard is closed. See Notifications. |
| Options and extras | Sizes, toppings, how the meat is cooked… that the customer chooses when ordering. |
| Pickup order | An order to collect at the venue, usually paid when ordering. It has a code (for example, A12). |
| PIN | The 4-digit code each team member uses to sign in on the venue's tablet. |
| POS | The dashboard's till: taking orders, payments, cash drawer and closing. Included in your plan. |
| Pre-bill | The table's bill before payment. It isn't valid as an invoice. |
| Private feedback | What a customer tells you privately after rating, without it being published. |
| Recipe costing | A dish's recipe with its quantities and cost. Stock module. |
| Round | Each order from the same table («Order 2» is the second round). |
| Sold out until tomorrow | A dish that can't be ordered until the next morning (at your opening time or, if you haven't set one, at 06:00). See Sold out. |
| Stamp | Each mark on the customer's stamp card. See Stamps. |
| Station | Where each category is prepared: Kitchen or Bar. Each screen can show only its own. |
| Stripe | The company that processes card payments: your customers' payments and yours to The Food Please. |
| To confirm | An order waiting for you to accept it before it goes to the kitchen. |
| Undo last | Undoes the last change to an order (up to 10 minutes). |
| Veri*factu | The Spanish tax agency's system that stops invoices from being changed. See Invoices. |
| Void check | Closing a table's bill without taking payment: its orders don't count as a sale. Only if no payment has been taken. Manager and owner. |
| «Who are you?» | The screen where each team member taps their name and enters their PIN. |
| X report | How the till stands at any moment, without closing it. |
| Z report | The day's till close: you count the cash, it prints and a new till session starts. See Till. |