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Format spec

Restaurant guest check template

The itemised bill brought to the table before payment, with covers, server and a suggested-tip ladder.

This is a generic industry format — the printing convention, not any company’s trade dress. You supply your own business identity; Get Receipt supplies the grid it prints on.

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Physical spec

Paper
80 mm thermal roll
Roll or sheet width
79.5 mm
Printable width
72 mm
Horizontal dots
576
Head density
203 dpi (8 dots/mm)
Characters per line
48 (ESC/POS Font A)

The character grid is the printer’s, not an approximation: at 203 dpi a Font A cell is 12 × 24 dots, so 576 dots of printable width is exactly 48 characters. Anything you render has to land on integer dot multiples or the edges blur.

Ordered field list

Top of the document to the bottom. This is the order a reader expects and the order a scanner, a bookkeeper or a returns desk looks for.

  1. 1.Venue name
  2. 2.Address and phone
  3. 3.Server name, table number, guest count
  4. 4.Check number, date and time opened
  5. 5.Course-grouped item lines
  6. 6.Modifiers indented under their parent item
  7. 7.Subtotal
  8. 8.Tax
  9. 9.Automatic service charge for large parties, where applied
  10. 10.Total
  11. 11.Suggested-tip table
  12. 12.Footer

Alignment

Two-column. Modifier lines indent two spaces under the dish they belong to and are priced, or marked as no charge.

Tax convention

Exclusive. Prepared food may carry a second, higher rate than the general rate, printed as its own named line.

Tender

None — the guest check precedes payment. The card slip that follows is a separate document.

Machine-readable code

Rarely present; a QR to pay or to leave a review appears on some.

How to recognise it

  • Server, table and guest triplet in the header
  • Indented modifiers
  • Suggested-tip ladder at 15, 18, 20 and 22 per cent
  • Automatic gratuity line for parties of six or more

Get Receipt renders this as Restaurant guest check

Table-service guest check with a gratuity line and a customer signature rule under the total. Every total is recomputed by the engine from the line items, so the printed lines always sum to the printed total — the one thing generated receipts most often get wrong.