Use Kitchen Routing to create and manage your kitchen printer groups and printers. Kitchen printer groups control how the system routes items to your kitchen printers. You assign items to kitchen printer groups. After you create your kitchen printer groups, you assign kitchen printers to them. You can also configure kitchen printers to consolidate like items on the kitchen chit.
To set up a kitchen printer group:
- Select Settings > Kitchen Routing.
- Click ADD GROUP. The Add Kitchen Printer screen appears.
- Type a name for the printer group.
- Click Save Changes and continue to the next procedure.
To set up a kitchen printer:
- Click ADD KITCHEN PRINTER. The Add Kitchen Printer screen appears.
- Type a name for the kitchen printer.
- Click Consolidate Items on Chit to combine like items on a kitchen chit. For example, with consolidate on, the system prints:
(2) Cheesburger
NO LETTUCE,
With consolidate off, the system prints:
Cheeseburger
NO LETTUCE
Cheeseburger
NO LETTUCE
- Select One item per chit to only have one menu item print on each kitchen chit.
- Click Save Changes and continue to the next procedure.
To associate a kitchen printer with a kitchen printer group:
- Select a kitchen printer group from the group list on the left side of the screen.
- Select the order mode for the printers to associate with the printer group. For example, select ‘DINE-IN’ for the Bar printer group.
- Click Save Changes.
See also:
Configuring Printers for a Device