A food order form is the ticket a counter, a caterer or a pizza shop writes up on the phone or over the counter, and it is arithmetic from the first line: items at quantity and price, a subtotal, sales tax at the business's own rate, delivery if it goes out, and the total the customer pays on collection. A pizza order form adds sizes and toppings as separate lines; pre order forms for a holiday or an event add a collection date and a deposit. This page walks the food order form by its lines, works an example ticket, and points at the free order form on this site that totals the ticket from the counter's own items and rate. It publishes no menu price and no tax rate.
Items at quantity and price, one line each
A food order is lines: two large pizzas at $18, one salad at $9, three drinks at $2.50. The form works each line and the subtotal, $52.50 on that ticket, from the quantities and prices the counter types, so a customer who adds a drink sees the subtotal move and the kitchen sees a ticket whose total agrees with its lines. Sizes and toppings on a pizza order form are lines of their own, at the price the shop charges for them.
Sales tax and delivery, at your figures
Prepared food is taxed differently from groceries in many states and the rate is the shop's own; the form applies the rate you enter to the items and shows the tax as a line, publishing no rate and no rule. Delivery is a figure of its own that does not scale with the food. On the example ticket, tax at 8% is $4.20 and a $4 delivery brings the total to $60.70, which the form shows with the item count beside it.
Pre order forms: the date, the deposit and the same total
Pre order forms for Thanksgiving pies or a catering job carry a collection date and usually a deposit, worked as a percentage of the total the shop chooses. The order form totals the food the same way and the deposit is the shop's own percentage of it; the balance on collection is the difference. Keeping the pre-orders against the customer is what the paid plan is for, so the Saturday list is the orders as they were taken.
From the ticket to the record
The free order form on this site works the ticket on the page with no account and prints the customer's copy; OrderPadLedger Pro saves every order against the customer, brands the ticket and exports the week when the accountant asks. It takes no payment and publishes no price; every figure on it is the shop's.
Questions people ask about food order form
What goes on a food order form?
The customer and a contact, the items at quantity and price with a line total each, the subtotal, sales tax at the shop's rate, delivery if any, the total, and for a pre-order the collection date and the deposit. The free form works the arithmetic.
How is a pizza order form different?
Sizes, toppings and sides are lines of their own at the shop's prices; the arithmetic is the same lines-to-subtotal-to-total the order form works.
Do pre order forms need a deposit?
That is the shop's policy. The form works the deposit as the percentage of the total you choose and shows the balance due on collection.