For decades restaurants have been using kitchen printers to communicate between the dining room and kitchen. Still already for several years digital kitchen display systems with touch screens have been in active use by top restaurants.
What are the five benefits for restaurants from using a kitchen display system (KDS)?
The kitchen and the dining room are directly connected.
The communication between a restaurant kitchen and dining room should be as quick and direct as possible. This makes it possible to notify a client early on about possible longer waiting time or that any dish in the menu is not available. All orders go straight to the kitchen display and the cooks can inform the waiters about possible waiting times.
The waiting time can be surprisingly short.
Although people count on some time while they decide to go to eat into a restaurant, no one still likes to wait too long. You can shorten the waiting time when a waiter can ask the orders from several tables without a need to walk into the kitchen in between but the cooks get the information from them online to their kitchen screen. CompuCash restaurant POS system in the tablet or mobile is a great too for your waiters. The order from the app goes straight to your bar or kitchen screen and you can surprise your guests with their drinks arriving to them at a time when you still finalise taking their food order.
5 benefits for restaurants from using a kitchen display system are the following:
1. A kitchen display system saves time
In case of checks printed from a kitchen printer a cook has to set them into a sequence then on the kitchen display these are already sorted according to your logic. One can read the information from the screen from some distance and it is smoother to handle it by touchscreen.
2. From the KDS one can send the needed information back to the waiters
When a dish gets ready a cook can make a double clock on the kitchen display and the relevant waiter gets the notification immediately with a chef’s hat icon or through a pager.
3. The kitchen display system calculates the amount of ingredients needed for a cook.
In addition to the concrete dishes ordered the display also shows you the summary amounts needed over all dishes in the queue. So the cooks can see that for example six veal steaks are in the list.
4. The KDS shows the dishes based on the courses and approximate time they need to be ready.
The kitchen screen displays the dishes grouped by the courses. Waiters can also add information about the time the cooks need to have the next course ready. The notification come to the kitchen with a chosen sound signal and the next course will be marked red on the screen.
5. The kitchen display system makes it possible to get valuable statistics.
CompuCash POS software generates a report where you can find out what is the average time of the dishes to be prepared.
Want to find out more of how kitchen display system can be beneficial to your business?
Ask our F&B point of sale specialist Marc +971 50 566 5278 or write [email protected]
