Split it by link. qmen.us permissions come from each role's URL: the owner sees everything on the Dashboard, the waiter sees the dining room's orders with amounts, the kitchen sees only its own station's items, with no prices or bills, and the guest, through the table QR code, sees only that table's order.
How qmen.us permissions work
qmen.us permissions aren't a list of boxes to tick: they come from the address each person opens. The owner signs in with their Google account at qmen.us/restaurante/painel/. The waiter opens qmen.us/your-restaurant/w/waiter-name/, the link shown on their card under Waiters. Each kitchen has its own qmen.us/your-restaurant/k/1/, protected by the display password. And the guest scans the table QR code and lands on qmen.us/your-restaurant/t/7/, with no sign-in at all. Four doors, four different screens.
The most important cut is money. The owner's Dashboard shows the day's revenue, each order's total and the reports. The waiter app shows the tab's total, because the waiter is the one who closes the bill at the table. The kitchen shows no amounts at all — not on the screen, not on the paper that comes out of the thermal printer: only quantity, category, item name, add-ons and note. And the table page shows the order's progress, item by item, with no totals.
Why splitting screens by role changes service
- Nobody has to rely on the team's discipline. The separation isn't a verbal agreement, it's the link itself. Someone who opens the station's display has no way to reach the revenue or a table's bill, even if they wanted to.
- The kitchen gets more done by seeing less. With no prices or totals competing for space, the display card uses the whole screen for what matters at the station: big quantities, item names readable from a distance and the guest's note highlighted.
- The guest sees their own table and stops there. The page that opens from the table QR code only shows that table's orders. There's no dining room list, no other people's bills, and when the waiter frees the table the order leaves the screen.
- Changing people is quick. A new waiter gets a card and a link in seconds; a waiter who left loses access with one tap on Remove. You don't touch user accounts or any permissions for that.
How to check who sees what, screen by screen
Six stops, one per screen. Go through them in order with your phone in hand and you'll see with your own eyes what each person at your restaurant sees.
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Open the Dashboard and see what only the owner sees
Go to qmen.us/restaurante/painel/ with your Google account. This is the only screen with the whole restaurant: active orders with each one's total, occupied and free tables, the day's revenue, Reports and the shortcut to Settings. Each restaurant has a single owner account — there's no second owner sign-in.
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Give the waiter their own link, and only that
In the Dashboard, open Waiters. Each person has a card with the Restaurant app access block, an address in the format qmen.us/your-restaurant/w/waiter-name/ and Copy link. Sign-in is with a Google account, when you added their email, or with the Restaurant password, which you set under Set and can reveal with the eye icon to pass on to the team.
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Know what the waiter sees
The app opens with New order, the table picker and the Active orders block, with the on the floor count. Those are the whole restaurant's orders, not just theirs: each line shows the table, the number of items, the total in R$ and the order number. Inside the order they have Serve, Close bill, Free table and Hide from table page, which removes that order from the table page.
Tip: A waiter only gets into their own URL. If they open another waiter's link, they land on that link's password screen — and the owner's Dashboard doesn't even show up on their account. -
Open the kitchen and confirm there's no money on screen
In Kitchens, copy the station's Display link and set the Display password. On the TV or tablet, the board shows only that station's items: where the order came from, the label (Draft, Ordered, Preparing), the quantity, the category, the item name, the add-ons and the note in yellow. No prices, totals or bills — and the same goes for the ticket that comes out of the printer.
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Scan the table QR code with your phone
Point the camera at the table's card and you land on its public page, with no sign-in. The guest sees that table's order moving item by item — Waiting, Preparing, Ready, Served —, the estimated time and, if you turned on Let guests call the waiter from the table, the Call waiter button. Totals don't appear here: the guest sees prices in the menu, when choosing.
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Remove access for someone who left the team
On the waiter's card, Remove cuts off access instantly: their link stops opening. If the password was shared, change it under Change so the person who left can't get in through another card. In the kitchen, the session lasts 30 days on that device: change the Display password and, on the tablet that's no longer yours, add logout/ to the end of the link to end the session.
Frequently asked questions
Can a waiter see the day's revenue?+
No. The day's revenue, the reports and the CSV export live in the Dashboard, and the Dashboard only opens with the owner's Google account. The money a waiter sees is each dining room order's total, because they're the one who closes the bill at the table.
Can my business partner get into the Dashboard too?+
Not today: each restaurant has a single owner account, and each account owns a single restaurant. You can transfer the whole restaurant to another account in Settings, in the Danger zone, or add your partner as a waiter, which is a separate login with much less on display.
Does the kitchen see the price or the order total?+
Not on the screen and not on paper. The display card shows where the order came from, its name when there is one, the stage label and the lines with quantity, category, item name, add-ons and note. The ticket that comes out of the thermal printer carries the same details, plus the waiter and the time — no amounts.
Can the guest at Table 3 see Table 4's order?+
No. The page belongs to the table, not the person: whoever opens the Table 3 QR code gets only Table 3's orders, and when the waiter frees the table that order disappears from the screen. If you want to take a specific order out of view, use Hide from table page in the waiter app.
Do I need to install an app for each role?+
No. qmen.us runs in the browser and has no app in a store. The owner opens the Dashboard on a computer or phone, the waiter opens their link on their phone, the kitchen opens the display on a TV or tablet and the guest just points the camera at the table QR code.
Can the qmen.us team see my orders?+
The qmen.us team has internal support access that lets them open a restaurant's Dashboard to help or to prepare a profile before the owner claims it. Apart from that, nobody outside your restaurant gets into the waiter, kitchen or table screens without the link and password you handed out.
Glossary
- Dashboard
- The owner's screen, at qmen.us/restaurante/painel/, with active orders, occupied tables, today's revenue and a shortcut to Settings.
- Waiter app
- The ordering page each waiter opens through the restaurant's own link, right in the phone's browser.
- Restaurant password
- A short password the owner sets so a waiter can sign in to the app without a Google account.
- Kitchen display
- The wall screen that shows that prep station's queue live, protected by a password.
- Display password
- A short password, at least 4 characters, that unlocks a kitchen's screen on that device. Each kitchen has its own.
- Table QR code
- The code printed on the table that guests scan with their phone, no sign-in needed.
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