You use prep stations to route menu items to the appropriate stations in the kitchen for fulfillment. A prep station represents the location of a kitchen printer or KDS device that receives orders for fulfillment.
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If a menu item does not have any prep stations assigned to it, the Toast platform automatically routes that menu item to all prep stations. |
You can set prep stations at the menu, menu group, subgroup, or menu item level. By default, menu groups inherit prep stations from their parent menus. Menu items and subgroups inherit prep stations from their parent menu groups. For more information on inheritance, see Understanding inheritance.
If you want to override the inherited prep stations for a menu item, set its Inherit prep stations? setting to No and then select its prep stations from the dropdown. When you configure settings directly on a menu item, those settings apply any time the menu item is ordered, from any menu path.
To override the inherited prep stations for a menu group or subgroup, select the link icon to unlink the configuration and then select the prep stations from the list.
To configure a menu item so that it inherits its prep stations, set the Inherit prep stations? setting to Yes.
To configure a menu group or subgroup so that it inherits its prep stations, select the link icon so that the Prep stations settings are grayed out.
If you do not have any prep stations configured yet, use the Manage prep stations link to go to the Prep Stations page where you can create them. For more information on creating and using prep stations, see Add a prep station and Routing to prep stations.