A menu order form is the order form a restaurant, a bakery or a caterer runs on its own site when a full ordering platform is more than the menu needs. It lists the dishes as lines with a quantity each, adds the options that change the price, asks for a pickup or delivery time, and takes the card. The mistakes are the payment form's: sales tax forgotten on the delivery option, the processor's fixed fee forgotten on the small order, and the order arriving as an email during service. This page builds the menu order form line by line and works the charge on the free payment form calculator, so the total the customer sees and the total that lands are both known before the form goes up.
The dishes as lines, the options as fees
Each dish that can be ordered is a line with a unit price and a quantity field, grouped under the menu's own headings. Options that change the price, a larger size, an extra side, delivery, are option fees that appear when their box is ticked. On the calculator two of a $45 dish and one of a $120 platter with a $15 delivery option is a $225 subtotal; the form shows that subtotal and the tax before the card is asked for, because a customer who sees the total on the confirmation and not before is a customer who calls.
The tax, the card fee and what lands
At 8.25% sales tax the order charges $243.56. At 2.9% plus $0.30 the processor keeps $7.36 and $236.20 reaches the account, of which $217.64 stays after the $18.56 of tax is remitted. Those are the worked example's rates; your state's rate on prepared food and your processor's pricing replace them. The option is taxed with the lines, which is the figure the delivery fee most often gets wrong.
The pickup time and the order as an entry
A pickup time field with the kitchen's slots, not a free text box, and a delivery address shown only when delivery is picked. The confirmation carries the time, the total and the address. In Shortcodo Pro each order is an entry with its lines, its time, its payment and a status from new to ready to collected, so the kitchen reads a list rather than an inbox, and the menu form's shortcode is kept with it for the next menu.
Questions people ask about menu order form
How many dishes can a menu order form hold?
As many as the menu, grouped by heading with the quantities at zero. When customers need a search box the form has become a shop.
Should the delivery fee be taxed?
That is your state's rule on delivery charges; the calculator taxes the option with the subtotal unless you set the rate to zero, and publishes no rule.
What about allergens on the form?
A note box that appears when an allergen box is ticked, on the entry beside the dishes. What the menu itself must state is the FDA's rule, linked from the restaurant order form guide.