Kitchen Order Pad
Speed and accuracy is a rare combination, where the either one is never fully present or the other is entirely absent. The same is not the case with Kitchen Order Pad aka KOP. Umang Software Technologies is the conceiver of such a prodigy. Kitchen Order Pad is part of the chronics of Visual Menu Series. Visual menu Series is a trident of tablet based menu and ordering system. BVM (Basic Visual Menu) & PVM (Premium Visual Menu) are the Tablet based menu systems were launch early this season while KOP was recent launched at the Food & Hospitality Expo, Goa.
Outline
Kitchen Order Pad is a hand held ordering device, to be used by the captains and attendants in the Hotel Industry. With the KOP the attendants can punch
in the Order to the Kitchen without moving away from the Table- Saving time and energy. Every order punched in generates the KOT in the kitchen through a network printer.
Detailed Glance: Restaurant End!
KOP is an android based Waiter’s Assistance Gadget that holds its operations together through the wifi connectivity.
KOP’s handhelds comes with the logins for the attendants, which makes them responsible for every order generated and the margin of error is reduced.
With the name on every printed KOT makes the captain liable for the wrong placement of the Order. Customization of every order is possible with KOP, wherein the captains can make legible notes to the chef of every customized order. A step ahead, KOP can present Images of the food items (on request of the customer) that will be placed at the customers table-This can really be a getaway in moments when one cannot elucidate the foreign customers how the dish would
look like.
The small wonder is in par with all the norms the hotel industry follows,and hence it has kept its functioning on the similar lines. The grace period to cancel every item (if the hotel allow it to), authentication on the reverse KOT, charging various taxes, chargeable and non chargeable KOTs etc. are some of the facets that KOP holds. Transfer order is yet another highlighting element of KOP, where it traces downs its customers order from previous to the current table. Table reservation is
also possible in KOP. So the staff can manage its customers more gracefully and plan out the operations accordingly.
Of course, the operations does not end there billing is what makes the restaurant run. KOP comes with 2 options one for the existing billing softwares and the other for new restaurants. For the existing softwares KOP has and open end to integrate with the other side without disturbing the current flow of the operations. And as for the latter option, it will have a billing system in place along with KOP.
Other End
KOP is designed to produce level headed reports at the EOD. The range of reports runs from the most ordered items to least order, to cancelled KOTs to sales made etc. The same can be view graphically (in various forms right from bar to line graphs to pie charts and more) or statistically. To make the life easier the reports can be printed or can be exported to excel for further use.
Restaurants that can go for
KOP is designed for very hotel that desires the smooth functioning and efficiency in operations.
It is for every hotelier who wishes to walk with the changing times 
and technology.
The Interface of the device is so user-friendly that does not required extra attention.
This is ‘cause the Hotelier does not have to worry about his staff to instigate a thought of going for KOP.
Why KOP
With the Kitchen Order Pad in place would reduce the manpower activity by 20 to 30 %. The same can work as a miracle for small restaurants not investing in more manpower but substituting it with KOP. This on time investment will keep generating the returns for many leap years to come.
The every turnover on the table would get more customers, which means more business which is the result of fast and quick service. And the word of mouth from your customers would do the rest for your restaurant.