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Q: How does Kitchen Display System compare to Toast KDS, Petpooja or Printer-based kitchens on cost and capability?

vs Toast KDS: Station-level routing, elapsed-time flags and course pacing without proprietary hardware or processing lock-in. vs Petpooja: Their KDS is a +₹3,000/yr Marketplace add-on over a ~₹10k/yr base — ours ships in the suite: big-screen tickets, zone routing and a protected kitchen view. vs Printer-based kitchens: Digital tickets replace dockets: no paper, no shouting, no lost orders — and it works with your printers anyway. See the full comparison & TCO math

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Direct-to-kitchen routing with delayed course firing.

The pass runs itself during a rush.
Digital tickets route straight to the station that cooks them.
Grill to grill, desserts to pantry — with elapsed-time colour coding, ready alerts and a customer-facing queue screen for QSR.

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◈ Included on Scale (₹7,999/site/mo yearly) · or +₹3,999/site/mo ($49) Restaurant & KDS Suite add-on on Growth

Availability

Delta OSGrowthScale →Enterprise →

Built for

Restaurants →Cloud kitchens →QSR →

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What you get

Capabilities that ship on day one.

Station-level routing

Products route to named kitchen zones — each station sees only what it cooks.

Customer queue screen

Guests watch ticket numbers progress on a big screen — no shouted names.

Delayed course firing

Mains release automatically when starters clear the table.

Elapsed-time coding

Tickets age green→amber→red against your own SLA.

Protected kitchen view

The kitchen screen sits behind its own access — stable, touch-first, shift-proof.

Get Kitchen Display System

Included on Scale (₹7,999/site/mo yearly) · or +₹3,999/site/mo ($49) Restaurant & KDS Suite add-on on Growth.

No integration project

One price per site

Migrate with bulk import

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PDF vs Competition Rollout plan

Complete capability set

Everything Kitchen Display System ships with.

Station-level routing — grill to grill, desserts to pantry Elapsed-time coding — green → amber → red Customer-facing queue screen for QSR Ready alerts to front-of-house Delayed course firing Password-protected kitchen view Bump & recall on tickets All-day item counts Runs on the local network — no internet needed Prep-time reporting per station

retailda · kds · pass 1

6 tickets liveavg prep 6m 12s

#1047 · Biryani ×2grill · 04:12preparing

#1046 · Chicken 65fryer · 06:31preparing

#1045 · Masala Dosaplating · 00:48firing

#1044 · Fried Ricedone 12:08bumped

Station routingtimers + allergies

Concept render — same capabilities as the shipped app; interface simplified for illustration.

Works with

The apps most teams switch on next

Nothing here needs connecting. Turning an app on simply reveals capability that is already reading the same data.

Omni Digital Kitchen

Table matrix, QR orders & cloud-kitchen brands on one line.

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Your own delivery operation — not rented rails.

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Self-checkout on any surface — a page, not a project.

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Integrations

Syncs with your existing stack

PCI-DSS GDPR DPDP ISO 27001 SOC 2 Veri*Factu NF525 TSE eTax Zakat

Running in production across a 97-terminal retail network, three defence & PSU canteens running air-gapped, field-custody stock at a national institute — and SCADA-controlled water-treatment plants.

Questions

About Kitchen Display System.

vs Toast KDS: Station-level routing, elapsed-time flags and course pacing without proprietary hardware or processing lock-in. vs Petpooja: Their KDS is a +₹3,000/yr Marketplace add-on over a ~₹10k/yr base — ours ships in the suite: big-screen tickets, zone routing and a protected kitchen view. vs Printer-based kitchens: Digital tickets replace dockets: no paper, no shouting, no lost orders — and it works with your printers anyway. See the full comparison & TCO math →

Both options are open: you can add the Restaurant & KDS Suite (+₹3,999/site/mo · $49) onto Growth (₹2,999/site/mo), or choose Scale at ₹7,999/site/mo billed yearly (₹9,999/mo monthly · $109/mo · or ₹2,49,999 One-Time Perpetual). Scale includes the full 6-app AI Engine Suite, the 5-app Manufacturing & B2B Suite, and any 1 Industry Vertical Suite free (with extra Vertical Suites at 40% off) — so as soon as you pair a vertical suite with AI or BOM, Scale costs less per site. Every plan includes unlimited staff and registers, plus −10% at 10+ sites and −20% at 25+ sites.

Every operation in Kitchen Display System — including station-level routing and customer queue screen — executes locally at the edge with zero cloud round-trip. Tills, kitchen screens, scanners and counters keep running at full speed with the cable unplugged, queue ledger entries locally, and reconcile upstream in strict sequence when the link returns. It runs on hardware you already own: Windows, Android, iPad, standard ESC/POS & ZPL printers, barcode scanners, weight scales and EMV terminals.

There is no API glue, webhook chain or CSV sync to maintain. Kitchen Display System shares the exact same live stock, customer and fiscal ledger row as Omni Digital Kitchen, Service & Delivery Ops and Self-Service Kiosk — switching them on simply exposes new workflows over the data your sites are already generating.

Yes. Menus, modifier groups, table layouts, KDS station routing and tax rules import in one shot — and printers, tablets and self-order kiosks bind in minutes without proprietary hardware lock-in. On Scale, a named engineer stages your exact floor and kitchen flow in a sandbox before you cut over between service windows. Book a live kitchen walkthrough →