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Kitchen tickets on a screen, sorted by station and time

When the POS sends an order, each station's screen shows its part straight away with a timer running. Cooks mark tickets as preparing and ready with one tap.

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Move tickets through the lanes and filter by station. A new sample ticket arrives every 25 seconds. The age colours are a demo of planned ticket-age thresholds; today each ticket shows its elapsed time.

Kitchen display · Thamel Live

New3

  • #0140 · Table 91:58

    Hot line

    • 1× Chicken Sekuwa
    • 2× Veg Chowmein
  • #0140 · Table 91:58

    Bar

    • 2× Masala Chiya
    • 1× Sweet Lassi
  • #0141 · QR · Table 50:36

    Momo

    • 2× C-Momo (fried)less spicy

Preparing2

  • #0138 · Table 213:32

    Hot line

    • 2× Chicken Thakali
    • 1× Dal Bhat Setno ghee
  • #0139 · Takeaway7:35

    Momo

    • 3× Chicken Momo
    • 1× Jhol Momoextra jhol

Ready1

  • #0136 · Table 49:00

    Bar

    • 2× Lemon Soda
Under 6 min6–12 minOver 12Age colours illustrative

Where it works: Kitchen

Walk the whole restaurant

Routing tickets to stations

Assign each dish to a station once, such as momo, hot line, tandoor or bar. When an order is sent, it is split into a ticket per station, and each screen shows only the dishes that station makes.

  1. 1Tickets appear without anyone refreshing the screen.
  2. 2Three lanes: New, Preparing and Ready. One tap moves a ticket to the next lane.
  3. 3Runs on any screen with a browser, such as a TV, a tablet or an old laptop.

One order · three stations

Illustrative data
ORD-0147 · Table 65 lines

Fired from POS · 19:42

  • Momo

    • 2× Chicken Momo
    • 1× Jhol Momo

  • Hot line

    • 1× Chicken Sekuwa
    • 1× Dal Bhat Set

  • Bar

    • 3× Masala Chiya

Each dish belongs to a station. The momo steamer never sees the chiya, and the bar never scrolls past a thakali set.

Cancellations reach the kitchen

When staff cancel an order at the counter and give a reason, its tickets are removed from the kitchen display straight away, so the line stops preparing it.

The cancellation and its reason are written to the audit log, where the owner can review them.

POS · Front counter

ORD-0151 · Takeaway

Guest left before paying.

Cancel order · reason: walked out

KDS · Hot line

#0151 · 2× Chicken Thakali

1× Veg Chowmein

Cancelled: stop cooking

Printed KOT slips

Many kitchens in Nepal work from printed KOT and BOT slips. You can already set up network, USB and Bluetooth printers and route them by station or category. The driver that prints slips directly to a thermal printer is not built yet, so today the kitchen works from the screen.

  • Kitchen display by stationAvailable
  • Printer routing by station or categoryPartial
  • Direct thermal (ESC/POS) KOT printingPlanned

** KOT **

MAIN KITCHEN PRINTER

ORD-014719:42TABLE 6 · DINE-INCOVERS 4SERVER: PRAKASHT2

  • 2xCHICKEN MOMO> less spicy
  • 1xJHOL MOMO
  • 1xDAL BHAT SET> no ghee · extra achar
  • 1xCHICKEN SEKUWA

FIRE NOW · 5 ITEMS

Illustrative KOT layout, 80mm paper

How it connects

Where kitchen tickets come from

The kitchen reads the order the POS created. Nobody re-types it onto a slip, and when the order changes, the ticket changes too.

Kitchen

Turns fired order lines into station tickets and tracks each one from new to ready.

What the kitchen display does today

Partial means it works now, with the limit stated next to it.

Available
Available
Partial
Partial
Planned
Planned

  • Kitchen stations

    Available

    Name your stations; every dish routes to one.

  • Live display

    Available

    Tickets arrive over a live socket the moment an order is fired.

  • Status lanes

    Available

    New, Preparing, Ready. One tap moves a ticket on.

  • Elapsed timers

    Available

    Every ticket shows how long it has been waiting.

  • Station filter

    Available

    Each screen shows all stations or just its own.

  • Cancellations

    Available

    Cancelled orders leave the display instead of being cooked.

  • QR orders to the kitchen

    Available

    Guest orders from the table arrive like any other ticket.

  • KOT printer routing

    Partial

    Printers and routes by station or category are modelled; the direct driver is not.

  • Direct thermal printing

    Planned

    ESC/POS to network, USB and Bluetooth printers.

  • Outage fallback

    Planned

    Kitchen display keeps running over the local network if the internet drops.

  • Ticket-age thresholds

    Planned

    Configurable times and colours for tickets that have waited too long.

Kitchen display questions

What screen do I need in the kitchen?
Anything with a modern browser: a wall-mounted TV with a stick PC, a tablet on an arm, an old laptop. There is no proprietary display to buy.
Can I keep printing KOT slips?
Not directly to a thermal printer yet. The printer and routing model is in place, and the ESC/POS driver is on the roadmap. Today the kitchen works from the display. If your kitchen only works from paper, tell us.
What happens to the kitchen if the internet drops?
The POS keeps taking orders and queues them on the device, but the kitchen display needs a connection to receive them. A local-network fallback is on the roadmap.
Does a waiter have to tell the kitchen about a cancellation?
No. Cancel the order at the till and its tickets leave the kitchen display. The reason is recorded in the audit log.

Try the demo

A sample restaurant in your browser. Take an order, send it to the kitchen, mark it ready and take payment. No account needed.

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