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The classic 86 workflow fails when your menu lives on paper or in a static PDF. Someone tells the host, the host tells servers, and half the dining room still orders the special that ran out twenty minutes ago.
Digital menus let you flip an item to sold out from the dashboard — or from a tablet on the pass — and propagate that state to every QR scan instantly.
Train staff on a simple rule: if it is gone, mark it sold out before telling the next table. Guests who scan after that see the item greyed out with a clear label instead of ordering something you cannot serve.
Over time, scan data shows which items sell out fastest so you can adjust prep and ordering before the rush, not after apologies at the table.