— Displays the appetizer scroller, used for appetizers, on the left side of this kitchen screen. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ screen type to enable this option.
— Changes the color of the cell to yellow to indicate the guest is present and waiting. Required Options: You must interface with Aloha Takeout to use this feature.
— Displays the name of the course in the cell header for this kitchen screen. You must select this option if you use the ‘Course’ element on a custom header and footer layout in Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Header Footer Layout. Required Options: You must select ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ to enable this option.
— Displays an indicator in the header if the order contains items from separate courses. You must select this option if you use the ‘Additional courses’ element on a custom header and footer layout in Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Header Footer Layout. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Displays the pivot seating separators, such as ***Seat 1***, in the cell for this kitchen screen. Related Options: This option enables the ‘Show seats in separate cells’ and ‘Hide seat separator when number of seats is one’ options.
— Displays each seat in a separate cell, instead of all in the same cell. Use this feature in environments where you deliver the order to each customer independently, while placing all seats on the same check. Required Options: You must select ‘Show pivot seating’ to enable this option.
— Suppresses the seat separator when there is only one seat in the cell. Required Options: You must select ‘Show pivot seating’ to enable this option.
— Enables you to display first level modifiers of an item side-by-side on a single line, as space permits. This does not affect second, or deeper, level modifiers. This option is not available for a ‘Customer order display’ screen type. Related Options: This option enables the ‘Modifier display mode’ option.
— Determines the wrapping method to use for first level modifiers of an item. Required Options: You must select ‘Horizontal modifiers’ to enable this option.
— Enables this kitchen screen to display orders grouped by time slots, as well as in the time slot headers. If cleared, the system uses the existing order view. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option. Related Options: This option enables ‘Auto expand time slot,’ ‘Time slot interval,’ ‘Show item count on time slot,’ and ‘Item count category,’ and ‘Item count alert level’ options.
— Specifies the number of minutes before the time defined for the slot time, that the time slot will expand and display orders within that time slot. This time slot can also be expanded and collapsed manually. Required Options: 1) You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option. 2) You must select ‘Use time slot’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the number of minutes to group a time slot in intervals. The default value is 15 minutes. The time starts at 00:00 for the day. Required Options: 1) You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option. 2) You must select ‘Use time slot’ to enable this option.
— Displays the number of items and modifiers defined in the ‘Item Count Category’ option, on the time slot. Required Options: 1) You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option. 2) You must select ‘Use time slot’ to enable this option.
— Limits the items, by category, you can use for the item count time slot. If no category is selected, the system counts all items and modifiers. Required Options: 1) You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option. 2) You must select ‘Use time slot’ to enable this option.
— Sets a threshold of items and modifiers that count toward the time slot, before the count appears highlighted in yellow. Required Options: 1) You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option. 2) You must select ‘Use time slot’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the percentage of real estate to allocate to the start queue area of the supported kitchen screen type. Required Options: You must use a ‘Production start and cooking’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Specifies the number of columns to use in the start queue area for the supported kitchen screen type. The default is three. Required Options: You must use a ‘Production start and cooking’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Specifies the location on the screen for the start queue area for the supported kitchen screen type. Select from Left, Top, Bottom, or Right. Required Options: You must use a ‘Production start and cooking’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Displays a sequential cell number in the header of the cell. Related Options: The cell number is helpful when you use one of the ‘BumpCell’ commands for a bump bar layout in Maintenance > Hardware > Bumpbar Layout. 2) You must select this option if you use the ‘Cell number’ element on a header and footer layout in Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Header and Footer Layout. 3) This option enables the ‘Cell number font size’ option.
— Specifies the font size, from 6 to 72, to use for the cell number. The default size is 15 points. Required Options: You must select ‘Show cell number’ to expose this option. Documented Version: v17.1.
— Indicates the area of the screen where you want the bin area to appear. Select from Top, Left, Bottom, or Right. Required Options: You must select ‘Show Bin’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the percentage, from 0 to 100, of the screen real estate the bin area uses for the kitchen screen. The default is 30%. Required Options: You must select ‘Show bin’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the number of rows to display for the bin area. Required Options: You must select ‘Show bin’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the number of columns to display for the bin area. Required Options: You must select ‘Show bin’ to enable this option.
— Prevents an item from moving to the bottom of the video cell when you bump the item. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Enables cells to show in a fixed location, beginning with cell one in the upper left, and numbers consecutively to the bottom right. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Specifies the number of rows to use when you enable fixed cell lengths. The default is three. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Specifies the number of rows to use in the start queue area for the supported kitchen screen type. The default is one. Required Options: You must use a ‘Production start and cooking’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Displays the time elapsed since an order was prepared. If the order has not been prepared, the format, “-:--” appears. You must select this option if you use the ‘Window timer’ element on a custom header and footer layout in Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Header and Footer Layout. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Allows you to display the order name captured from Aloha Takeout on a video cell for this kitchen screen. If you do not specify a ‘Custom order name format,’ Al oha Kitchen uses the order name captured from the Aloha POS. Required Options: If you use a header and footer layout, you must add the ‘Order name’ element in Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Header and Footer Layout to display the custom order name. Related Options: You must type the syntaxes in ‘Custom order name format’ to define the elements of the order name that Aloha Kitchen retrieves from Aloha Takeout.
— Specifies the maximum number of characters allotted for the order name retrieved from Aloha Takeout. If the information does not fit in the space you allotted, the text is cut off. The default value is 160 characters. Required Options: You must select ‘Enable custom order name format’ to enable this option.
— Designates the syntax needed to define the elements of the order name that Aloha Kitchen retrieves from Aloha Takeout. Examples include {Customer.DisplayFirstName}, {Customer.DisplayName}, (Customer.DisplayLastName:1}, and others. You can include free text, such as Mobile:{Customer.DisplayLastName}. Required Options: You must select ‘Enable custom order name format’ to enable this option.
Specifies the default number of seconds, from 0-9999, before a course reaches priority status for this kitchen screen only. Priority is the first level of alert indicating the course is running late. Required Options: You must select ‘Seconds’ from the ‘Alert methods’ drop-down list to enable this option. Related Options: This option overrides the ‘First alert seconds’ option in the Course Screen function.
Specifies the default number of seconds, from 0-9999, before a course reaches priority status for this kitchen screen only. Priority is the first level of alert indicating the course is running late. Required Options: You must select ‘Seconds’ from the ‘Alert methods’ drop-down list to enable this option. Related Options: This option overrides the ‘Second alert seconds’ option in the Course Screen function.
Displays both delayed and current orders together on the same screen. When selected, delayed orders no longer appear on the Delayed Orders screen. This feature is not supported with workflow routing or load balancing. Documented Version: AK v16.2.
Displays a quantity for each component when you consolidate identical quick combos. When cleared, the indicator appears only for the quick combo header. This option is only applicable for the ‘Expo order view’ and ‘Production order view’ screen types. Required Options: 1) You must select ‘Group and display name on expo’ or ‘Group and display on all’ in Maintenance > Payments > Promotions > Promotion tab > Kitchen group bar for the specific quick combo. 2) You must clear ‘Do not group quick combos’ in Maintenance > Hardware > Kitchen Screen > Screen tab > ‘Order display’ group bar for that specific kitchen screen to use this feature. Documented Version: v17.1.
— Denotes the text to appear when a consumer arrives to pick up an order. The default message is “Customer Checked In.” Required Options: You must select Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Header and Footer Layout and add the ‘Customer checked in text’ to a header or footer layout to display the text on a video cell. Related Requirements: You must select Maintenance > Takeout Configuration > Takeout Settings > Options tab in Aloha Takeout and select ‘Enable kitchen integration’ to use this feature. Documented Version: AK v19.3.
— Allows a ‘checked in’ icon to appear on the kitchen screen. Required Options: You must select Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Header and Footer Layout and add the ‘Customer checked in icon’ to a header or footer layout to display the icon on a video cell. Related Requirements: You must select Maintenance > Takeout Configuration > Takeout Settings > Options tab in Aloha Takeout and select ‘Enable kitchen integration’ to use this feature. Documented Version: AK v19.3.
— Displays the originating terminal number from which the order was entered, in the header area. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Does not display the order on the kitchen screen until the items for the order are fully prepared. This is used for the expediter. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Sorts orders on the kitchen screen by their quote time. Related Options: 1) This option is automatically selected when you select ‘Use time slot.’ 2) You must interface with Aloha Takeout to use this feature.
— Sorts orders on the screen by their target time. If cleared, then orders are sorted by the order in which they are initiated. Related Options: This option is overridden when you select ‘Sort orders by quote time.’
— Does not sort orders by the time they are prepared. Ordinarily, the system automatically moves an order which has all items prepared to the front of the queue. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Specifies how items sort within an order. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Determines if a graphic displays on the right hand side of the bottom continuation section of an order. The bitmap name is ‘BottomContinuation’ in the Aloha Kitchen/Bmp folder. You can use either a .bmp or .png file type. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Displays the order name on the header of the item cell for this kitchen screen. Required Options: You must select this option if you use the ‘Order name’ element on a custom header and footer layout in Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Header and Footer Layout.
— Sorts items and modifiers in the cooking queue by the item target time. Required Options: You must use a kitchen screen type other than ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Customer order display’ to enable this option.
— Numbers the items within an order, using alphabetical characters. Required Options: You must select ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the minimum number of items to determine if item line numbers appear in the item cell header for this kitchen screen. Required Options: 1) You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option. 2) You must select ‘Show item line numbers’ to enable this option.
Displays the countdown timer per item instead of at the order level in each cell on an expo or production screen, allowing kitchen employees to visually see the progress of each item and pinpoint items that are on time or running late. When the cook time lapses before you bump an item, the timer begins counting up in negative numbers, indicating the item is late. Related Options: You must configure a ‘Cook time’ for each item in Maintenance > Menu > Item Cook Time to display the count down timer per item. Documented Version: AK v16.2.
— Displays the quantity to the left of the each item in the kitchen cell. The quantity appears as (n) where n is the number of items. If the quantity ordered is only one, it does not appear. Related Options: To display the quantity for an item even when only one is ordered, select ‘Always show item quantity.’
— Displays the quantity to the left of each item in the cell even when only one is ordered. By default, the quantity does not appear for an item with a quantity of one. Required Options: You must select ‘Show item count on order’ to enable this option. Documented Version: AK v16.2.
— Allows the text ‘Add On’ to blink on an add-on cell to make the order more visible to the employee.
— Allows you to expand and retract an order with up and down arrows on the video cell. Related Options: This option enables the ‘Collapsible Orders’ group bar.
Use the ‘Collapsible orders’ group bar to allow you to collapse and expand the order cell. You must select this option if you use the ‘Expand/Collapse’ element on a custom header and footer layout in Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Header and Footer Layout. Required Options: 1) You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option. 2) You must select ‘Enable collapsible order’ to enable this group bar.
— Determines the beep behavior when a new order appears on the kitchen screen. Select from ‘Off,’ ‘First only,’ and ‘Always.’ Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Determines the beep behavior when a new item appears on the kitchen screen. Select from ‘Off,’ ‘First only,’ and ‘Always.’ Required Options: You must use a kitchen screen type other than ‘Expo order view’ and ‘Production order view’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the order header to override the default order header layout and display for the kitchen screen. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Specifies the order footer to override the default order footer layout and display for the kitchen screen. Required Options: You must use an ‘Expo order view’ or ‘Production order view’ kitchen screen type to enable this option.
— Specifies the item header to override the default item header layout and display for the kitchen screen. Required Options: You must use a kitchen screen type other than ‘Expo order view’ and ‘Production order view’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the item footer to override the default item footer layout and display for the kitchen screen. Required Options: You must use a kitchen screen type other than ‘Expo order view’ and ‘Production order view’ to enable this option.
Use the ‘Customer order display options’ group bar to configure the behavior for a customer order display kitchen screen type. Required Options: You must use a ‘Customer order display’ kitchen screen type to enable this group bar.
Use the Item Count Breakdown tab to define the item count and threshold to display in the time slot header. Required Options: You must select ‘Use time slot’ to enable this tab.
— Displays the item breakdowns, in the time slot header, that are subject to the ‘Item count breakdown threshold’ level. Item counts are independent from the item count breakdown. Required Options: You must select ‘Use time slot’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the category to use for the item count breakdown. If the count of all items in the time slot is greater than or equal to the ‘item count breakdown threshold,’ the system breaks down how many items and modifiers, per category; otherwise, 0 appears in the time slot header. If an item is in multiple categories defined in the ‘Item count breakdown category,’ the system counts items and modifiers for each of these categories. Required Options: You must select ‘Use time slot’ to enable this option.
— Specifies the threshold level at which the item count breakdown appears. If the total number of items and modifiers belonging to the ‘Item count breakdown category’ equals or exceeds this threshold, then the breakdown appears. Required Options: You must select ‘Use time slot’ to enable this option.
— Displays the Item Availability screen. Documented Version: AK v16.2.
