🍔 Food Delivery & QSR · Flowchart
Restaurant Kitchen Order Flow
How orders from dine-in, takeaway and delivery apps flow through a restaurant kitchen display system to the pass and out.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- All channels land on one kitchen display
- Items are routed to the right station (grill, fryer, cold)
- Late orders are highlighted so the kitchen can catch up
Prompt used
Kitchen flowchart: orders come from the POS (dine-in, takeaway) and aggregator apps into the kitchen display system (KDS), which splits each order into items routed to stations: grill, fryer, cold, drinks. Cooks bump items when done; when all items are ready the order goes to the pass for quality check and packing. Delivery orders wait for the rider, dine-in goes to the table. Orders past the target time turn red on the display.
Mermaid code
flowchart TD
A[POS: dine-in, takeaway] --> K[Kitchen Display System]
B[Aggregator apps: delivery] --> K
K --> C{Route items to station}
C --> G[Grill]
C --> F[Fryer]
C --> CO[Cold station]
C --> D[Drinks]
G --> P[Pass: all items ready?]
F --> P
CO --> P
D --> P
P -->|Missing items| C
P -->|Complete| Q[Quality check and pack]
Q --> R{Order type}
R -->|Delivery| S[Handover to rider]
R -->|Dine-in| T[Serve to table]
K -.->|Past target time| L[Highlight red]Related templates
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