These are three of ViewTouch's reusable objects. This is an "Order Entry Window", an intelligent, editable guest check. The 'messages' it receives from other objects may include other menu items such as Eggs Benedict or Orange Juice. The menu item "Bacon & Cheese Omelette" and modifier "English Muffin" are selected and shown in yellow backlight. When the symbol for rebuilding is selected these items are deleted if you are a waiter or waitress. If you are a manger, you have the option to 'void' or 'comp' items. 

These objects exist upon a framework patterned after natural language. They can be manipulated in a way which is virtually identical to the way words are manipulated in speech.  The built-in Authoring Tool in your ViewTouch solution makes it easy for even a child to build the most advanced POS interface ever developed.. 

It took us several years and three generations of POS development to dream up and create a product that is more unique, affordable, useful and easy-to-use than anything else you can buy.  It was in 1978 that we put into use the first personal computer to take a customer's order and print it in a food & beverage preparation area.  That's how long we've been at this business of automating Point of Sale.
These objects are menu items; they have characteristics such as price, recipe, family, display preference, etc..  They can communicate with other objects and pages. Each object is sensitive to what other objects are doing and has a role in a hierarchy of events and classifications. Objects are both touch and mouse input sensitive.  The various qualities which make an object physically attractive, such as texture, font size. typeface, size and shape, are assigned to it by the rules such as texture, font size. typeface, size and shape, are assigned to it by the rules of the page or on an individual basis. 

Why does an `object' need to 'communicate' and have a `role in a hierarchy' ?  When your business sells an item like Chicken Fried Steak & Eggs which belongs to the family of breakfast items, the Financial Accounting module adds the value of the sale, $7.95 to the revenue column of your Profit & Loss Statement.  The Inventory module removes the ingredients in the item's recipe (2 eggs, 5 ounces of beef and 5 ounces of potatoes from theoretical inventory.