topic Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT in Restaurant Operations

Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

ashokr — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:13:48 GMT

I've had this feature with 2 prior POS's that I have used in the past. Aldelo (A PC based product) and Revel (Cloud and IOS based). Revel didn't have this feature when I first got engaged, but they fulfilled it a week before I went live. That was remarkable speed to support our request. I've waited for almost 2 years and I don't see this feature intercept yet.

I love Toast for many of its features which is why I moved to Toast, But I would still like this feature that improves operational efficiency in our Kitchen.

Look at the attachment. Every station would have any items being prepared in other stations. This is super useful for our workflow. Allows efficient communication between staff and make sure nothing is missed or overlooked.

Technically should be super easy to do it. The workaround suggested was to print all items in all stations, which is a huge bandaid and I'll be wasting soo much paper in every station.

Not sure if we have a way to rank them up top, so if you find this is useful, please mark it such so it can get noticed.

Ideally there is just one setting global, if we need this summary for the entire store, or better to be a per-printer setting if that summary is to be printed.

Folks please help 🙂

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

rcmck — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:50:26 GMT

You can use other stations under prep station setup, but it is not as compact as your example.

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

ashokr — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:52:53 GMT

True, this is what was suggested by support, but a HUGE hammer approach, not concise and simple like the example I gave.

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

rcmck — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:05:48 GMT

Yeah it's not great, I would also like to see your suggestion on the KDS too rather than the current ALSO AT option, just the item names without modifiers in small print, inline would even be fine with commas separating them, wouldn't take up much space and would greatly improve kitchen workflow.

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

ashokr — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:49:03 GMT

Nice suggestion for KDS. Hope someone takes note!

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

nbunda — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:53:45 GMT

I would LOVE to see this too. Nice and concise but lets the server know what items the order is still waiting on.

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

Rob — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:53:17 GMT

We are taking notes! 🙂

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

ashokr — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:50:53 GMT

Thanks Rob. I would love a feature here that basically tells the community things that the community is seeing of importance. So its a good feature list to pickup from.

But sincere thanks for responding.

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

Rob — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:34:22 GMT

Thank you for the feedback! We could create a newsletter or a monthly post about the topics that received the most engagement within the community, which the community seems interested in or is talking about. Is that what you mean?

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

ashokr — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:47:50 GMT

Absolutely... that would be a great way to tell the community "toast cares" and also give that summary for the dev team input.

Re: Printing Items in other Stations near the end of KOT

Rob — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:09:11 GMT

Thank you for your reply, I will share this with my team and see what we can create!