So I know plenty of us sell drink vouchers that can be turned in at our venue bars and all that good stuff. That's all pretty straightforward. But we've got an idea floating around: let customers order from a small menu of items from our in-house bar/restaurant (say, 15 items total) and have them arrange to have the drink/sandwich/whatever waiting for them, either pre- or post-show.
Obviously I don't want to build 15 total performances for EACH DAY WE HAVE A SHOW (30 total if I want to make pre-show and post-show orders separate and more easily reportable rather than, say, using price types or zones). Has anyone run into this sort of problem before? How have you handled it, if so? Thanks!
-Justin
Hi- I built a test version of this using zones with dedicated descriptions such as:Red wine $12White wine $11Beer $10Nachos (I'm hungry and nachos sound good right now) $12etc. etc. The event could be timed as a pre-show event, or a mid-evening event for intermission (or one of each, though it would take a bit of management).I can send you the documentation if you want. We don't use it, as our restaurant prefers to do business on their own, but it tested fine.
All the best,
Mark
Thanks, Mark! I thought about zones, but then if they change what they want to offer, I have hundreds of performances that need new zones/etc. It looks like our restaurant may be handling this on its own now, so it's a (semi?) false alarm, but I'll hit you up if this proposal rises from the ashes to haunt me.