Dining courses are used in table service restaurants to control the order in which menu items are prepared and served during a meal. For example, if an order contains both appetizers and entrées, the system sends the appetizers to the kitchen immediately, and holds the entrées until the appetizers are ready and bumped from the KDS Display. This prevents the meal from being served all at once or from having later courses from sitting in the kitchen until the previous course is cleared.
Before configuring the dining course settings for the KDS, you must have dining courses set up and assigned to the menu items. The Oracle Hospitality Simphony Configuration Guide contains more information on setting up dining courses.