The KitchenSync Dashboard
Four numbers, two charts and the lists underneath — what the kitchen home screen actually tells you.
KitchenSync → Dashboard is the kitchen's home screen. Three buttons sit at the top right — New Catering Order, Display Board and Run Sheet — and everything below is a read-out.
The four numbers
| Card | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Today's Events | Catering orders happening today |
| This Week | Orders in the next seven days |
| Low Stock | Items at or below their reorder threshold or par min |
| Open Prep Tasks | Incomplete prep on orders happening today or later |
Open Prep Tasks is bounded to upcoming work. It used to count every incomplete task the venue had ever created, so it only ever grew — 32 for a venue with nothing on this week, most of them from events months past. A number that never falls stops being read.
If that card shows a dash and "couldn't load prep tasks", the count failed rather than came back zero. It will not tell you your prep is done when it does not know.
The two charts
Orders by Prep Status — how many orders sit at not started, in progress and finalized.
Events This Week by Day — the week's shape.
Below the charts
This Week's Events — each order with its menu, guest count and prep status.
Alerts — low stock and anything else needing attention.
Open Prep Tasks — the actual tasks, grouped by station, with their priority. Eight are shown; if there are more, the list says so.
What the cards do when you click them
Low Stock goes to Inventory. Open Prep Tasks goes to Catering Orders. Today's Events and This Week go to the orders list filtered accordingly.
What is not here
No prep tasks assigned to individual cooks, no bar inventory shortcut, no per-station load view, and no revenue figure — money lives in Reports. The dashboard answers "what is coming and what am I short of", and stops there.
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