In one of my "fiddling sessions", I toyed with the idea of a kitchen display system. Sometimes referred to as a "bump" screen in the restaurant industry.
This is a screen which is mounted somewhere in the kitchen and displays orders inputted by staff at the counter/serving.
What I've done, is written a really quick and dirty program to read the sales check and display it. My example program only supports one order at a time - just because it's only a "toy" at the moment.
Here's a screenshot showing DHPOS on the left, and my kitchen program on the right...
Preparation
It's very simplistic. I setup DHPOS with a few food items in my stocktable. I used 4 digit stock numbers for quick entry and grouped them using their numbers like this:
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1000 - 1999: Food items
9000 - 9999: Drink items
8000 - 8999: Add-onsAlso, if an item description starts with "---", KITCHEN will treat it as a separator line (e.g. separating people's orders). Add-ons and separators appear in a different colour to help distinguish them.
Ringing up an order
* Ring up your items in the right order
* Hit + to subtotal, and choose the option to print a sale check
* DHPOS will ask you to park the sale, enter any number
* As soon as you do that, the slip is generated and the order is "pushed"
* KITCHEN will display the order as soon as it can read the slip
You must be using APRINT so KITCHEN can read the slip too.
Changing an order
* Retrieve the sale from parked sales like normal
* Make your changes or additions
* Hit + and choose to print a sales slip again
* Press any key to clear the confirmation message that appears and KITCHEN then updates the order screen automatically from the new slip
That's about it for now - just did it out of fun really, if I get some time I hope to expand it and maybe let y'all have a play.
