Courses and seats
Send food out by course, and mark who at the table ordered what.
In table service, not everything goes out together. Courses let the starter leave now while the main waits for the table to finish. Seats note who ordered what, so the plate reaches the right person without anyone asking.
Before you start
Courses only matter if you send tickets to a kitchen. If you're charging at a bar with no kitchen in between, leave everything on Now and skip the step.
Setting a line's course
Every line carries a course. As you add it, pick one from the line's selector:
- Now — goes to the kitchen as soon as you send the ticket.
- C1 — first course. Also fires immediately.
- C2 and up — stays Held. The kitchen can't see it yet.
A held course isn't a forgotten to-do: the line is already on the check and counts toward the total from the moment you ring it. The only thing waiting is the kitchen.
Firing the next course
When the table is ready for the next plate, select Fire C2 (or whichever course is up). Those lines appear in the kitchen right then.
Assigning seats
Pick the seat on the line — S1, S2, and so on — to note whose plate it is.
Seats don't move money. They do two things: the kitchen ticket says which seat each plate belongs to, and splitting the check later becomes one tap instead of sorting line by line.