Configuring Production Lanes
KDS supports two production lanes. If your kitchen has dual order preparation lines, you need to configure order devices for each production lane. After the order devices have been configured, these same devices need to be associated with each other. When production lanes are in use, orders are fired to both lanes simultaneously. A user working on one lane must claim an order to work on it. Once an order is claimed, it is not visible in the other order lane. A Lane field is available in the Order Devices module on the KDS tab to designate an order device as one of two configurable lanes (1 or 2).
Production lanes can be configured and implemented to work as a separate feature (by assigning a lane to KDS order devices), or they can work in tandem using Workflow value settings defined for each KDS order device to determine where an order shows first, and when bumped or done from that display, where it shows next and so on, from highest to lowest values. See Configuring Workflow for more information about this feature.
Important:
Do not click Save until you have completed all of the configuration steps outlined here. This is contrary to most configuration practices. If you save any changes prior to completing the entire configuration, the feature setup remains incomplete.Parent topic: Basic KDS Configuration