The Pass, your front of house screen

THIS IS THE SCREEN YOU LEAVE OPEN DURING SERVICE. It is a browser page on any tablet or phone. Nothing to install.

WHAT IS ON IT, in the order it matters. Tables waving for you, because somebody with a raised hand outranks every queue there is. Rounds waiting for your yes. Food plated and waiting for a runner, with who is on it. Table requests still unanswered. Takeaway orders to accept, mark ready or hand over. Tonight's arrivals. And meals a member added to their own CyprusBites card, which you can ignore.

IT REFRESHES ITSELF about every half minute and swaps the new content in place, so the screen never goes blank in the middle of a shift. A sound plays only for something genuinely new, not every time it checks, so it is not a machine that beeps at you.

THE SCANNER DOES THREE JOBS. An arriving guest's booking code, a takeaway collection code, and a member's card. One scanner, one place, no mode to remember.

YOUR STAFF CAN USE IT. You mint a crew link from your tables setup, print the QR, and a waiter's own phone becomes a staff screen by scanning it. No accounts to create and no app to install. A crew phone can do the service work and not the setup, which is the right split.

THERE IS A SECOND SCREEN CALLED BITESTAB, at your tables, which is the floor plan itself: every table, what each one owes, and closing the tab at the till. The Pass is the front of house queue; BitesTab is the room. They share the waving tables and the rounds on purpose, so whichever one somebody is standing in front of, the job is there.