harley1011 / RestoTouch

A web application for providing virtual menus to restaurants
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Print out order #133

Open harley1011 opened 7 years ago

harley1011 commented 7 years ago

Story: As a kitchen staff, I want the orders placed by customers to print out on a piece of paper Story Points: ~8~ 20 Priority: Medium Risk: Medium

Some kitchens rather paper orders rather than using a screen to display the order, this issue will focus on researching the feasibility of printing out orders on POS receipt printer, and if it's feasible will implement it.

harley1011 commented 7 years ago

Various node modules to print out receipts such as https://github.com/Klemen1337/node-thermal-printer exist

To print out an order an individual node application will have to run on a computer within the restaurant that's connected to all the printers, this application will connect to the main server via socket.io like the cashier mode does receive orders to print.

This story is not feasible to implement within the remaining time to implement with the remaining period we have so this story will be re-estimated with the research that's been done. We had originally thought that the cashier app or mobile app could just print out the order to the connected devices but since they are browser applications they will require a user prompt to print out which isn't really practical