Company Settings
Preparation Areas
Set up the parts of a site's kitchen where products are prepared, for kitchen screens and product preparations.
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About
Preparation areas are the parts of a site's kitchen where products are prepared. Their settings depend on what they're used for.
What they're used for
Cinchio Direct Printer
Each printer configured for Cinchio Direct Print is a preparation area.
Kitchen Display Screen
Each Kitchen Display Screen is a preparation area.
Logwood KMS
Each screen on the integrated Logwood KMS is a preparation area.
Product preparations
Product preparations use preparation areas to represent areas of production in Inventory Management.
Ready to start?
Go to the Create tab.
Create
Create a preparation area with its name, then fill in the rest of its settings.
Steps
1
Start a new preparation area
Go to Company Settings > Site Setup > Preparation Areas and select NEW PREPARATION AREA.
2
Set what it is used for
If used for routing remote orders to a printer or kitchen screen, select the provider:
Then, select Create.
The preparation area is created. Next, set it up for what it's used for.
Edit
Set up a preparation area for what it's used for.
What Order Routing Provider is the preparation area set up to use?
Cinchio Direct Print
Set up the printer
In Preparation Area Details, fill in:
Update the internal name of the preparation area.
If used in Product Preparations too, select the wastage type to assign any yield loss against.
In Cinchio Direct Print Settings, fill in:
The unique URL for this printer, required for Printer Configuration.
For orders placed in advance, how many minutes before they're due they appear on the KMS, so they don't sit on screen too long.
Select which orders should send to the printer based on the transaction source.
Select the location in this site that the printer is at.
Toggle on the preparation area when the printer is ready to start receiving orders.
Cinchio KDS
Set up the screen
In Preparation Area Details, fill in:
Update the internal name of the preparation area.
If used in Product Preparations too, select the wastage type to assign any yield loss against.
In Cinchio KDS Settings, fill in:
Toggle on the preparation area when the printer is ready to start receiving orders.
The URL for the KDS to bookmark on your device in the kitchen.
The view the screen opens on. Staff can change it on the screen.
How many seconds after the due time a ticket header turns from green to orange.
How many seconds after the due time it turns from orange to red.
For orders placed in advance, how many minutes before they're due they appear on the KMS, so they don't sit on screen too long.
The default font size for orders on the KDS.
Ask staff to confirm before a ticket is bumped.
Accept tickets automatically, rather than making staff accept or reject each one.
Logwood Restful Interface
Set up the screen
In Preparation Area Details, fill in:
Update the internal name of the preparation area.
If used in Product Preparations too, select the wastage type to assign any yield loss against.
In Logwood Restful Sender Settings, fill in:
The cook area for this screen. Products in that cook area are sent to it. Use 0 for products with no cook area that must show on the front-of-house screen, and 1 or more for standard cook areas.
The screen tickets go to by default.
Optionally, only send products in this family to the preparation area.
For orders placed in advance, how many minutes before they're due they appear on the KMS, so they don't sit on screen too long.
Toggle on the preparation area when the screen is ready to start receiving orders.
Settings set by Cinchio
These are set by Cinchio during setup:
Which remote order sources send orders to this KMS, if the site has several. Leave blank for all.
The NGROK address for this location.
The ticket version for this location.
Which location the preparation area is for, if the site has several. Leave blank for all.
Search
Find preparation areas by name.
Shown straight away
When you open Company Settings > Site Setup > Preparation Areas, every preparation area for the site is listed.
Searching
Use any of these filters in the Search panel at the top, then select SEARCH:
All or part of the name.
Whether to include archived preparation areas.
What's shown
Its name.
For kitchen screens, its status.
For kitchen screens, the provider.
Archive
Archive a preparation area you no longer need. It isn't permanently deleted, so you can restore it.
You have delete rights
If you don't but think you should, find out how to get access.
What do you want to do?
Archive a preparation area
1
Open the preparation area
Go to Company Settings > Site Setup > Preparation Areas, find the preparation area and select EDIT.
2
Archive it
Select DELETE and confirm.
The preparation area is archived.
Restore an archived preparation area
1
Find the preparation area
Go to Company Settings > Site Setup > Preparation Areas and search with Show Deleted set to Yes.
2
Restore it
Open it, select UNDELETE and confirm.
The preparation area is available again.