Food Service : How to use “-----” to separate items
 
How to use “-----” to separate items
 
It may be useful to visually separate groups of items ordered for a given table as a method for prompting the kitchen to prepare certain items first or to help an expeditor prepare the food for delivery appropriately. As items are printed on remote receipts in the exact order they are displayed on the screen, it can be helpful to create a visual cue in the receipt. One way to do this is to create an item with the name “--------” and a corresponding button on the screen for that item. When training servers to sell items, they are instructed to select the items on the screen in logical order (whatever that represents in your environment) and separate those items appropriately using the ------ key. This then prints the remote receipt in the same fashion, consecutively. For instance, in certain environments, servers may be trained to enter one guests’ order first at a table, and then add ------, and then move on to the next guests’ order.