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Guides for restaurants and cafés

Catering orders, deposits, staff records and pricing rules for cafés and restaurants.

  • Read this ifYou set prices for a café, bar, restaurant or shop in California and want your menus, price tags and checkout to follow SB 478.

    SB 478 menu pricing: restaurant fees, price tags and checkout

    SB 478 menu pricing in plain words: what California menus, price tags and online checkouts must show, how restaurant fees must appear, and the records to keep.

    Pricing rules · 12 min read

  • Read this ifYou run a café, restaurant or bar in California and want your staff’s tips pooled and split the right way.

    Tip pooling in California: the rules and records to keep

    Tip pooling in California for owners: who can share, who can’t, when card tips are due, and the per-shift record that shows what each person got.

    Tip pool records · 13 min read

  • Read this ifYou take catering orders by text, phone and email, and track deposits in a notebook or your head.

    Catering order management: orders and deposits in one place

    Catering order management for cafés and restaurants: one record per order with menu, headcount, deposit and balance due, plus the deposit rules to set first.

    Catering orders · 13 min read

  • Read this ifYou run a café, restaurant, bar or food truck in California and need to know which staff hold a valid food handler card.

    Food handler card tracking: who has one and when it expires

    Food handler card tracking for California food businesses: the 30-day and three-year rules, county exceptions, SB 476 pay rules and the records to keep.

    Food safety records · 13 min read