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Kitchen display screen vs ticket printer
How OmniDine's kitchen screen works, what it replaces, and how holding and firing courses changes the pass.
5 min readUpdated 21 October 2026
A ticket printer tells the kitchen what's ordered. A kitchen display also shows how long it's been waiting, what's coming next and what's been cancelled.
- Orders split automatically into kitchen and bar tickets.
- Large tickets show the table, guest, notes and a timer that turns amber at 10 minutes and red at 20.
- Starters go straight away; mains and desserts wait until the server fires them.
- Held mains show in a "coming up" lane with prep totals, so chefs can prep ahead without cooking early.
- Bump finished tickets, and recall one bumped by mistake.
- Taking back an item the kitchen already has needs a manager and sends a red VOID ticket.
- Mark an item sold out (86) from the kitchen and it can't be rung up anywhere.
Full-screen tickets with amber and red timers and the held-course lane.
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