Glossary
- 86 — mark an item unavailable ("86 the salmon"); it disappears from ordering everywhere.
- All-day view — KDS view totalling outstanding items across all tickets.
- Bump — mark a kitchen ticket done, removing it from the KDS.
- Comp — complimentary; the guest isn't charged but the item is still made.
- Course firing mode — how a ticket's courses reach the kitchen: all at once, manual, sequential, or hybrid.
- Cover — a guest seated (covers = number of diners).
- Float — the cash a drawer starts a shift with.
- House account — a running credit account for a regular/corporate customer.
- No-sale — opening the drawer without a sale (e.g. to make change).
- Pacing — the cap on new online bookings per time slot.
- Preauth — a card hold (Yoco) on a tab to protect against walk-outs.
- Prep station — a kitchen line (Hot, Bar, Pastry…) that tickets route to on the KDS.
- Ready / run this table — the kitchen's signal that food is plated and should be collected.
- Rush — flag a kitchen ticket urgent.
- Sync queue — offline changes waiting to reach the server.
- Tab — an open bar bill added to over time.
- Table group — tables that push together, bookable online as one big table.
- Variance — the difference between counted cash and expected cash at close.
- VAT201 — the SARS value-added-tax return.
- X-report — a mid-shift sales snapshot (doesn't close the day).
- Z-report — end-of-day report that locks the shift and posts the journal.
More in Troubleshooting and reference
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