A display station can also be a printer station, printing the order or part of the order on a slip.
Items that are sent to a printer station are on a separate KOT. When items are printed to a KDS printer, the printer KOT receives the status Not Printed. What happens next depends on how the POS Terminal that prints the KOT is set up. The Printer KOT Status after Sent field on the POS Terminal card,
- Ready to Be Manually Served - When the NAS runs it gives the KOT the Sent status. When the production time of the item with the longest production time has passed, the NAS gives the KOT the status Ready to be Served. When the KOT is the active KOT, the dining table is marked as Ready to be Served. The waiter must then press the table and select SERVE TABLE or open up the Sales POS for the order. Then the KOT is marked as Served and the next KOT in line becomes the active KOT, if found.
- Served - The system gives the KOT the Served status directly. The KOT’s status goes from Not Sent to Served. If the KOT was the active KOT, the next KOT in line becomes the active KOT if one exists. The NAS is not involved.
It is possible to print the chit on a printer station when the chit is bumped from an Expeditor display station. See Expeditor Bump Printing.
See Also
Directing Printer Stations to Individual Printers