Club kitchen display system
A club kitchen display system for every outlet, one line
The grill room, the bar, the halfway house and the course all order from the same kitchen. Bubs puts every ticket on the right station's screen, fired by course, with allergies flagged and printers behind it for the day the internet isn't.
Routing
Why does a club kitchen need its own KDS?
A restaurant kitchen takes orders from a dining room. A club kitchen takes them from a dining room, a bar, a window at the turn, a cart on the 12th and a member's phone on the 7th tee — all at once on a Saturday. The display has to know where every ticket came from and where it's going.
Routed by station
Each item knows where it's made. The burger goes to the grill, the fries to the fry station, the Arnold Palmer to the bar — from one check, at the same moment.
Screen, printer or both
Set each station to a screen, a printer or both. The line reads the display; the bar that has always worked from paper keeps its paper.
Every outlet in one queue
Tickets from the dining room, the halfway house, the beverage cart and members ordering from the course arrive on the same screens, labeled with where they came from.
On the line
What the cook sees, and what they don't have to ask
The screen answers the questions a line cook shouts across the pass: is this course fired, how long has it been up, and does anyone at the table have an allergy.
Coursing that follows the server
Servers send a course now, keep it with the table, or hold it. A held course shows on the ticket, greyed out, until the server fires it — or it fires on a timer, with a countdown and a Fire now button on the screen.
Allergies you can't miss
An allergy on the item or the member's profile shows as a flag on the ticket, in the one color the screen uses for nothing else. Modifiers and notes print under the item, not in a footer.
Aging you can see
Every ticket shows how long it has been on the board, so the ticket that's been waiting twelve minutes doesn't hide behind the one that just arrived.
All-day counts
One view adds up everything open across the station — eleven burgers, four halibut — so the cook fires in batches instead of reading ticket by ticket.
Bump and recall
Bump the ticket when it's up, from the touch screen or a bump bar. Bumped the wrong one? Recall brings it straight back.
Reprint on demand
Reprint any ticket at the station's printer, and replay the queue after a screen reconnects, so nothing fired while it was down is lost.
Printers
Printers that keep the kitchen cooking through an outage
Kitchen screens need the network; paper doesn't. Every register sends tickets straight to the kitchen's network printers over the club's own network, so when the internet drops at Saturday lunch the tickets still come off the printer and the line never stops.
Bubs prints to Star network printers: fast thermal printers for most stations and impact printers for the hot line, where heat fades thermal paper. The back office warns you if a kitchen has no network printer at all, before the day it matters.
- Thermal and impact network printers
- Tickets print from the register with no internet
- Receipt layouts with the club's letterhead
Expo and the pass
The pass sees the whole table
The expeditor works from a view of every station at once, so the steak and the halibut for table 12 leave the pass together, and nothing goes out half-finished.
FAQ
Kitchen display questions
What is a kitchen display system?
A kitchen display system (KDS) replaces paper tickets on the line with screens. Orders from the register appear at the station that makes them, cooks work them in order, and bump them when they're up. A club KDS also has to take orders from outlets a restaurant doesn't have: the halfway house, the beverage cart and members ordering from the course.
Can we keep printing tickets?
Yes. Every station can be set to a screen, a printer, or both. Many kitchens run screens on the line and keep a printer at the bar or the pass.
What happens to the kitchen if the internet goes down?
Tickets keep printing. The registers send tickets straight to the kitchen's network printers over the club's own network, so the line keeps cooking. That is why we ask every kitchen to have at least one network printer, and the back office warns you if a station doesn't.
What hardware does the kitchen display run on?
Bubs runs on a wall- or counter-mounted touch screen at each station, with an optional bump bar for kitchens that prefer keys. Tickets print on Star network printers — thermal for most stations, impact for hot lines where heat fades thermal paper.
How does coursing work?
The server decides when each course goes. Items are sent now, kept with the table, or held; held courses appear on the ticket, dimmed, until the server fires them or a timer does. The kitchen sees what's coming without cooking it early.
Do on-course orders go to the kitchen display?
Yes. Orders members place from the course arrive at the right station like any other ticket, marked with where they're going — to a cart on the course or waiting at the turn.
See your club on Bubs
Thirty minutes, your club's brand on the screen, and the parts of the day you care about most.