Order placed directly from the POS
What the dining room enters reaches the kitchen without printing or re-entry.
Platform · Operations layer
KDS
The kitchen in the same flow as the dining room, with no paper in between.
The challenge
Between the dining room and the kitchen there's usually a gap: the order is entered on the POS, printed, and someone in the kitchen reads it and organizes it. Each of these steps is where the tab goes missing, the sequence gets lost, and the dish comes out at the wrong time — and it happens most during peak hours.
What this costs
A paper tab leaves no trace: there's no way to measure production time, or know why a dish was delayed. Course pacing becomes a decision left to the cook's memory, and the customer experience is at the mercy of how busy the day happens to be.
The order entered on the POS reaches the KDS instantly, at the right station, with the sequence and course set by the dining room. The kitchen works from the screen, the time of each stage is recorded, and production no longer depends on paper to happen in the right order.
Layer 01
Operation
It sits in the operation layer, alongside the POS: the order originates at the point of sale and is dispatched to production without passing through a file or re-typing, and the time of each stage feeds up into the data.
What this delivers
Pacing and sequence
Starter, main course, and dessert go out in the right order, coordinated by the dining room.
Production stations
Each station sees only what's theirs — grill, salad, dessert — instead of the whole tab.
Time per stage
How long each order took at each station, to size the team and find the bottleneck.
Bump and confirmation
The completed step is marked on the screen, and the dining room knows the dish is ready.
Integration with self-service
Orders from the kiosk and the digital menu enter the same production queue as the dining room.
Conversation with
- PDV Multi-OS
- Self-service
- Delivery
Where it applies
Frequently asked questions
Does the KDS depend on internet to work?
It runs on the venue's local network, so it keeps working between the POS and the kitchen even without internet — the same continuity described on the offline operation page.
Can a kitchen have more than one screen?
Yes. Each production station can have its own screen, showing only what belongs to that station, and the full order stays visible at expediting.
Do delivery and kiosk orders enter the KDS?
They do, in the same queue as the dining room. What comes from self-service and delivery reaches the kitchen like any other order, without a second operation.
Talk to a specialist
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How many locations, what stack is already running, what needs to be integrated, and what the rollout would look like.
