Kitchen display system
A kitchen display system (KDS) for every order, on a tablet you own
The kitchen display shows direct, marketplace, and table orders as tickets, oldest first. One tap starts a ticket, and a second marks it ready.
Works withSquareShopifyToastCloverDoorDashand any system that gives you API access
The line reads orders from too many places
Each channel brings its own printer or screen.
- Paper tickets pile up and go missing in a rush.
- Delivery orders arrive on screens of their own.
- Nobody can tell which ticket has waited longest.
- A finished order sits because the counter didn't hear.
A kitchen display system for restaurants that take orders everywhere
Every order lands in one list, with what the cook needs to make it.
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Tickets, oldest first
Each ticket shows the channel, the promised time, the items, their modifiers, and any notes. A table order carries its table, and a pickup order the guest's name.
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Two taps per ticket
The first tap marks a ticket preparing and the second marks it ready. The guest's order status follows.
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Timers that change color
Every ticket counts up from when the kitchen accepted it. It turns amber, then red, at the minutes you set.
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Stations
Assign menu categories to a station, and a tablet at the grill shows only the grill's items.
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Recall a cleared ticket
The last 20 ready orders stay within reach for 30 minutes, so a ticket cleared by mistake comes back.
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English or Spanish, per tablet
Each kitchen tablet picks its own language. The counter and the line don't have to match.
A kitchen display screen is paired in minutes
There's no app store download. The display opens in the tablet's browser and can sit on its home screen.
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Open the pairing code
In the console, start a kitchen pairing for the location. It shows a QR code and six digits.
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Scan it with the tablet
Scanning opens the kitchen display already paired. Typing the six digits works too.
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Set your timers and stations
Choose when a ticket turns amber and red, and which categories each station sees.
Where the tickets come from
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DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub
Marketplace orders join the same list as direct ones.
See marketplace orders03
The table
A guest who scans a table code orders from their seat, and the ticket names the table.
See QR code menuWhat a kitchen ticket lists, on your own menu
The test drive turns your website into a private Appetier preview, with your menu and your colors. Those are the items a kitchen ticket shows.
A connected POS still prints its tickets
Connecting a POS is optional. With one connected, orders also print there as tickets. The kitchen display is one more place to read them, and your POS keeps running the counter.
- Square
- Shopify
- Toast
- Clover
- Revel
- Micros
Kitchen display system FAQs
What owners ask before a tablet goes on the line.
How much does the kitchen display system cost?
What hardware does a KDS system need?
Do I have to install an app?
Does the kitchen display show marketplace orders?
Can I run more than one kitchen display screen?
What happens if a cook marks the wrong ticket ready?
Does the kitchen display replace my POS?
The rest of the pass
Where orders start, and what the plan includes.
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Delivery orders in one queue
DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub beside your direct orders.
See marketplace ordersPut every order on one kitchen screen
The kitchen display costs nothing extra, and nothing is charged until direct orders come in.