Getting started
From "we just signed" to "first paid order on a table" in under 30 minutes.
This page walks an operator through the shortest path to a working Fooodo deployment at a single location. It assumes a Fooodo onboarding specialist has already created the account and connected your POS. If that hasn't happened yet, write to hello@fooodo.com.
Before you start
You will need:
- A device that prints QR codes (any office printer is fine — Fooodo generates A4 / table-tent / sticker formats).
- Admin access to your menu source of record. For R-Keeper that's the back-office terminal; for Toast / iiko / Square the cloud admin portal.
- One or two test tables you can use without affecting paying guests for the first hour.
The 30-minute path
- Sync the menu. From the Fooodo admin, run Menu → Pull from POS. The first sync is the only slow one — subsequent ones are incremental and run automatically.
- Verify a single category. Open the synced menu in preview, pick one category (drinks is the easiest), and confirm prices, modifiers and tax flags match the POS exactly. If anything's off, fix it in the POS, not in Fooodo — Fooodo never overwrites the source of record.
- Print test QR codes. Tables → Print generates one QR per table number. Stick them on two test tables.
- Run a dry order. Scan the QR with a phone, place an order, pay with a real card (the cheapest item in your test category — it goes through Fooodo Pay and reconciles to your existing acquirer). Confirm the order arrives at the kitchen printer / KDS as if it had been entered through the POS.
- Promote the rest of the floor. Once the dry run is clean, print and stick QR codes for every table.
After this, you're on Fooodo. The rest of the handbook covers the operations and analytics layers — none of those are required for service to work.
What happens next
Within the first week:
- Insights starts producing weekly summaries by location.
- Tip and bill-split flows become available to enable on a per-table basis.
- The kitchen flow module can replace handwritten chits if you want to (most operators leave the existing KDS until they trust Fooodo's).