Item Cook Times
Select Maintenance > Menu > Item Cook Times to access this function.
Use Item Cook Times to define cook times for all items on your menu. When the kitchen receives an order, the item with the longest cook time appears on the kitchen display first and the remaining items appear by cook time in descending order. This allows all items in an order to finish cooking at the same time. Use this option with Aloha Kitchen or Video Display System. This option is available for the Standard item type only.
Tip: Unless you use NCR Aloha Configuration Center (CFC) as your management tool, you can configure only the global default record for this function. You configure cook times for all items and maintain those cook times in this global record. Refer to Chapter 1: About CFC for further information.
The cook time for the item that takes the longest to prepare appears on the video monitors to which any other items on the order are sent. This time equals to delay times that appear on screen for other menu items. When you bump an item with a specified delay time, the system initiates a countdown on the other video monitors. You cannot bump a delayed order until the countdown for the item with the delay time begins. If more than one item on the order has a delay time specified, the system uses the longest delay time. For example, a pizza takes 10 minutes to cook; a salad takes one minute to prepare. Set the pizza to have a cook time of 600 seconds. When you bump the pizza, indicating start of preparation, the cook time of the pizza item appears as a delay time on the video monitor where the salad appears. The delay time counts down to zero. The delay time indicates the time the pizza will be ready and enables the food prep to prepare the salad and have it ready at the same time the pizza is ready.
Item Cook Time tab
Use the Item Cook Time tab to configure the default settings for menu item cook times.
Group Bar: Settings
Name — Identifies the global default record. This option, by default, is read only.
Group Bar: Cook Time Assignments
Use the >> and << arrows to move items between the ‘Available’ list and the ‘Included’ list. The column headings that appear in the ‘Included’ and ‘Available’ lists are as follows:
The column headings that appear in the ‘Available’ list are as follows:
Number — Indicates the item number.
Name — Identifies the item.
An additional column appears in the ‘Included’ list.
Cook time — Indicates the amount of time, in seconds, that an item takes to prepare. To set or change this amount, you click ‘Cook time’ for each item and type the cook time in seconds.
Standard Modifiers tab
Use the Standard Modifiers tab to alter the default cook time for items you can prepare in multiple ways, such as meat that can be rare, medium rare, medium, and well done. Required Options: You must access Maintenance > Business > Installed Products > Global tab and select ‘Uses Kitchen’ under the ‘Products installed’ group bar to enable this tab.
Note: Cook times on this tab override settings on the Item Cook Time tab.
Group Bar: Cook Time Assignments
Use the >> and << arrows to move items between the ‘Available’ list and the ‘Included’ list. The column headings that appear in the ‘Available’ list are as follows:
Number — Indicates the item number
Name — Identifies the item.
Two additional columns appear in the ‘Included’ list.
+/- Percent — Specifies the amount of time, as a percentage of the default time, that the system needs to alter the cook time of the item.
+/- Seconds — Specifies the amount of time, in seconds, that the system needs to alter the default cook time of the item.
Note: You must include the minus sign (-) to subtract time from the original item cook time.
Advanced Modifiers tab
Use the Advanced Modifiers tab to override settings on both the Item Cook Time tab, and the Standard Modifiers tab, with a specific pairing of an item and a modifier. Typically, you use this when a cook time adjustment is already in place or when you want to use a pairing at all times, such as a kids’ meal Hamburger with small fries.
Note: Cook times on this tab override settings on the Item Cook Time tab and the Standard Modifiers tab.
Group Bar: Cook Time Assignments
Item — Identifies the item.
Modifier item — Identifies the modifier.
Combined cook time — Specifies the combined cook time of both the item and the modifier.