Glossary
Kitchen display system
KDS · kitchen screen
A kitchen display system, or KDS, is a screen in the kitchen that shows orders as tickets the moment they are entered at the terminal, replacing or supplementing the printed kitchen ticket, and lets a cook mark each item or course as done.
Stations and routing
A kitchen has work positions: grill, fry, cold, pastry, bar, the pass. Each menu item is routed to the station that makes it, so a screen at the grill shows only the grill's items while the pass screen shows the whole order across every station. Routing is by item, not by brand or by table, which is what lets several brands share one kitchen.
Bumping, timers and the pass
A cook bumps an item when it is plated; the pass bumps the course when every station's part is there. Age timers colour a ticket that has waited too long. A ticket that a cook cannot make (the fish is finished) is flagged from the screen so the floor hears before the guest does.
Screens and printers together
A KDS does not have to replace the printer. A station can print, display, or both, and a venue changes that per station without touching the menu.
How Brindola does it
Any paired device can be a kitchen screen for one station, or for all of them at the pass. The expo view shows every station at once; a bell on each ticket sends one of four messages to the floor; kitchen printers work alongside. Kitchen times are reported in percentiles, not averages, so a slow station is a fact.
Kitchen displays in the product
How to set up a kitchen screen, step by step