KVS Options

When using Kitchen Video Screens (KVS) there are a couple different options on the way that it can be set up. How its set up depends on how your cooks like to run the kitchen. Here are the main options:

Option #1 – Full Automation (preferred method)

• No wheel screen is used.
• Each station has its own side screen showing a “To-Do List” of only the items they need to cook and when they need to cook them.
• Cook times must be entered, and prep times should be considered since they determine when items are sent to stations.
• When all items on a ticket are finished, it turns bright green on the expo screen and moves to the front, signaling that it is complete at all stations.

Option #2 – Traditional Wheel Screen

• A “wheel” cook manually sends items to each side station. They would oversee the timing of when things get sent to the side stations.
• Cook times are optional, but recommended so side stations know how long each item takes.
  • Cook times should reflect actual cook times only, not prep time.
  • Items without cook times arrive in the order they were entered; with cook times, items are sorted longest cook time first.
• The wheel cook manually bumps the ticket to the expo screen when all items are finished at their stations.

Option #3 – Hybrid – Traditional Wheel Screen, with Auto Send 

• Items are automatically sent to side stations like Full Automation (#1).

• The wheel screen allows the main cook to see the full ticket.

• The wheel screen can also act as a side station, where items are fired and finished just like the individual station screens.
  

Option #4 – Digital Tickets

• Screens are used only to display tickets.

• Typically, only the expo screen is needed.

• The kitchen sees the ticket and bumps it off when complete, but items are not sent to individual stations.