The Kitchen Display Board
A fullscreen, self-updating board for one event's courses and prep tasks during service.
The Kitchen Display Board is a dark, high-contrast screen built for a mounted monitor or a tablet on the pass. It shows one event at a time — its courses, its prep tasks and its dietary counts — and it updates itself, so nobody has to walk back to a desk to find out where service is.
Opening a board
Go to KitchenSync → Display Board. You get a card for each event with a catering order, showing the menu and guest count. Choosing one opens that event's board in a new tab, which is what you want on a kitchen screen: the board fills the tab and the rest of the app stays where it was.
There is one board per event. If you are running two events in a day, open two tabs.
The course strip
Across the top is one chip per course, in service order, each showing the course name, its scheduled time and its current status. Four statuses:
- pending — grey. Nothing has started.
- in progress — amber, and it pulses, so it is the thing your eye lands on from across the room.
- served — green.
- delayed — red.
Tap a chip and pick the new status from the short list that drops down. Setting a course to served stamps the actual time it went out, which is what the post-event reconciliation compares against the schedule later. Nothing else records that time, so if you care about how service actually ran against plan, this is the tap that captures it.
Prep tasks by station
Below the courses, tasks are grouped under the station they belong to — Hot Line, Cold Line, Grill, Pastry, Bar, Prep and General. Tap the circle on a task to complete it. Completed tasks drop to the bottom of their station rather than disappearing, so the board doubles as a record of what has been done, and the counter at the bottom shows completed against total.
Tasks come from the order's prep list. The board is for working through them during service — to add, edit or reschedule tasks, use the Prep tab on the catering order.
Dietary counts
The board carries the event's dietary summary as large numbers. Allergies are the only red on the board — nut, shellfish, dairy, egg and soy — so an allergy cannot be mistaken at a glance for a preference like vegetarian or gluten-free. If a number is red, someone at that event gets sick if the plate is wrong.
These counts come from what the couple submitted on their menu selection page and from per-guest meal choices. If a count looks wrong, it is corrected on the catering order, not here.
It updates itself
The board subscribes to changes and also re-reads every 30 seconds. Someone ticking a task off on their phone, or a coordinator changing a course status from the office, appears here without anyone refreshing. That is the point of mounting it: the board is the shared truth, not a snapshot somebody printed.
The clock in the header is live, so you can also tell at a glance that the screen has not frozen.
Leaving the board
Exit Display, top right, returns you to where you came from.
What the board does not do
- It does not send or acknowledge tickets. There is no ticket queue, no "ready" and no "delivered" — course status and task completion are the whole vocabulary.
- It does not cover more than one event.
- It has no separate TV pairing code. Open the board in a browser on the screen you want it on.
For a printable snapshot of the day instead of a live screen, use the Daily Run Sheet.
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