The kitchen board, and the printer

ONE CARD PER ROUND, ONE BIG READY. That is the whole kitchen screen, because a kitchen screen with choices on it is a kitchen screen nobody uses.

COUNTERS GET THEIR OWN TAB. Set up a kitchen, a bar and a grill and each one has its own view, so the bar tablet shows drinks and nothing else. No counters set up means one board showing the whole room, which is the right default for a small kitchen.

PER LINE READINESS. A line can be marked ready or away on its own, and the round only turns ready when nothing is left to cook. That is computed, not ticked, so a round cannot be called up with a dish still on the grill.

THE PRINTER POLLS US. NOTHING IS INSTALLED ANYWHERE. You mint a code on your tables setup page and type it once into your printer's own cloud print settings. From then on the printer asks us whether there is anything to print. That means no software on a computer in your office, no computer in your office, no fixed IP, and no visit from anybody.

YOUR SETUP PAGE SHOWS EACH PRINTER'S LAST SEEN TIME, or says it has never polled yet. That one line is how you tell a printer that is broken from a printer that was never configured.

ONE TICKET PER COUNTER. A round with a steak and two beers prints at the grill and at the bar, each with only its own lines, in the right width and the right character set for Greek.

AND IF YOU HAVE NO PRINTER AT ALL, it still works: the Pass prints a ticket from the browser. This is deliberate. The whole thing has to work with nothing, because most venues start with nothing.