Notes from building a kitchen display system.
The rule for this page: a post either teaches you something you can use on your next shift, or it does not go up.
Posts
- The honest buyer's guide to kitchen displays
Three questions decide this purchase, and two of the three answers should send you to a different vendor. Ask them before you look at a price.
2026-08-20 - What a missed ticket costs, in your own numbers
We will not tell you what a missed ticket costs your kitchen, because we have not measured your kitchen. Here is how to work the figure out yourself.
2026-08-20 - What speed of service actually measures
A ticket time is a subtraction, and both ends of it are choices somebody made. Decide where your clock starts and stops before you judge a number by it.
2026-08-20 - How to lay out kitchen screens for your kitchen
Start from the path a ticket takes through your kitchen, not from the number of tablets in the drawer. Four shapes, and how to tell which one is yours.
2026-08-20 - What happens to your tickets when the internet drops SAMPLE ENTRY
The three network states a kitchen screen can be in, what keeps working in each one, and the one thing that does not.
2026-08-19
Spanish posts
Spanish posts aren’t live yet. Our Spanish content only goes up once it’s been written by a Spanish speaker and reviewed by someone who’s worked in a kitchen — never machine-translated. The blog pipeline already supports Spanish; it’s waiting on that person, not on engineering.
No Spanish posts are published yet. The Spanish blog is not a translation of this one and will not be produced by translating it.