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Assign decision ownership
Name an internal owner, vendor owner, and decision path. Separate configuration decisions from issues that require finance, operations, kitchen, or ownership approval.
Clean source information
Confirm items, descriptions, prices, taxes, modifiers, availability, recipes or routing, users, roles, and reporting categories before entry. Keep one approved source of truth.
Configure the physical environment
Confirm power, network access, mounts, printer routes, kitchen display positions, cash drawers, and spare equipment. Label devices and document restart and connection steps.
Train by role and task
Give each role short practice focused on a normal shift plus exceptions such as unavailable items, order corrections, refunds, handoffs, and offline operation.
Rehearse and support launch
Run realistic orders before go-live, freeze nonessential changes, define fallback procedures, and schedule vendor and internal coverage for the first operating periods.