You can automate functions in Aloha Kitchen so you do not have to perform the function manually. Most of the options are in the Kitchen Station and Kitchen Settings functions. These include starting, preparing, and bumping items automatically. You can automate the starting of items by kitchen station.

To automate the starting of items by kitchen station:

• With Kitchen selected in the product panel, select Maintenance > Hardware > Kitchen Station.
• Select a station from the 'Kitchen Station' drop-down list.
• Under the 'Items' group bar, select Auto-start all items to automatically start all items that are routed to this station. Use this option if you are using a Production Cooking Only kitchen screen type and there is not a corresponding Production Start Only kitchen screen.
• Under the 'Orders' group bar, select Auto-start production order view cell to automatically start all items on an order when an order is activated. This feature only affects a 'Production Order view' kitchen screen.
• Click Save.
• Repeat this procedure for other kitchen stations, as needed.
• Click Close and exit the Kitchen Stations function.

To automate the preparing of items: You can automatically prepare items by Kitchen Station. Use the following procedure when there is not a 'Production cooking only' station to bump prepared items.

• With Kitchen selected in the product panel, select Maintenance > Hardware > Kitchen Stations.
• Select a station from the drop-down list.
• Under the 'Items' group bar, select Auto-prepare all items to automatically prepare all items that are routed to this station.
• Click Save.
• Repeat this procedure for other kitchen stations, as needed.
• Click Close and exit the Kitchen Stations function.

To automatically bump items from other stations: You can configure a station to bump the items within an order from all other production stations. In Kitchen Settings, you can define a threshold of minutes before the system bumps an item from all kitchen screens.

• With Kitchen selected in the product panel, select Maintenance > Hardware > Kitchen Stations.
• Select a station from the Kitchen Station drop-down list.
• Under the 'Settings' group bar, select Master bump to specify whether items and orders that are bumped from this station are automatically activated, started, and bumped from other production stations defined on the Master Bump Stations tab.
• Select the Master Bump Stations tab, select stations in the 'Available' list box, and click the right arrow to move them to the 'Included' list box.
• Select Master bump all stations to specify whether a bump on the selected station items and orders can activate, start, and bump from all other production stations. This option does not require stations are defined on the Master Bump Stations tab.
• Click Save in the Command panel.
• Repeat this procedure for other kitchen stations, as needed.
• Click Close in the Command panel to exit the Kitchen Stations function.

To automatically bump stale orders: Aloha Kitchen allows you to configure the number of minutes when an order is considered stale and should no longer appear on kitchen screens, even through it has not been manually bumped by an employee.

• With Kitchen selected in the product panel, select Maintenance > Kitchen Configuration > Kitchen Settings > Items group bar.
• Type the number of minutes, from 0-9999, in Auto bump minutes, before the system automatically bumps an order from all kitchen stations, whether the order is prepared or not.
• Click Close in the Command panel to exit the Kitchen Settings function.

To automate the printing in Aloha Kitchen: You can automatically print a chit in Aloha Kitchen, by kitchen station, when an order reaches a certain state.

• With Kitchen selected in the product panel, select Maintenance > Hardware > Kitchen Station.
• Select a station from the Kitchen Station drop-down list.
• Under the 'Printing' group bar, select an auto-print method:
  • Auto-print when bumped automatically prints a chit to the local printer when you bump an order from this station.
  • Auto-print when prepared automatically prints a chit to the local printer when an item is prepared.
  • Auto-print on first item prepared automatically prints a chit to the local printer when the first item of an order is prepared to allow employees to organize for subsequent items as they are prepared.
  • Auto-print expo chit on order displayed automatically prints an expo chit to the printer attached to the kitchen station when an order appears on this screen.
  • Auto-print expo chit on order prepared automatically prints an expo chit to the printer attached to the kitchen station when an order is bumped from the production station.
• Click Save.
• Repeat this procedure for other kitchen stations, as needed.
• Click Close and exit the Kitchen Stations function.