Kitchen or bar staff can preview orders and begin preparing items that require more prep or cooking time to assist in delivering orders more quickly. Pre-production printing allows servers to send certain menu items to remote printers prior to finalizing the current round.
Operationally, as workstation operators add menu items, they can select a Pre-Production Chit (Tender/Media Service Total) button to send the pre-production items to remote printers. For easier recognition, pre-production chits are formatted differently than the output of conventional order chits.
After an item is fired through pre-production chit printing, if the workstation operator adds a second item and then selects pre-production chit printing again, the system only fires the second item. The first item does not trigger the re-fire of a pre-production chit.