Dashboard

The dashboard is the first thing staff see after logging in, and the screen most restaurants keep open on a tablet at the host stand or behind the bar.

Active lists

Every table currently running an open tab shows here, with a count at the top. Tables that need attention, a waiter request or a check request, are visibly flagged so staff don’t have to check each one individually. The panel collapses if you want the screen space back.

Active orders

Individual orders that still need handling, placed but not yet marked delivered, show here separately from the tabs they belong to. This is the list kitchen and bar staff work from directly, mark an order in process, then delivered, as it moves along. See Lists & orders for the full state model.

Open / closed

A single toggle controls whether your restaurant is currently accepting orders at all. Closing it stops new orders from anywhere, existing tabs aren’t affected. This is separate from a menu category’s own availability window (see Categories), think of it as the master switch, categories as finer-grained scheduling underneath it.

Live updates and refreshing

Most of what happens here updates in place: a new order arriving, a table asking for help, another staff member marking something delivered. You don’t need to refresh to see it, and neither does anyone else on a different tablet or browser tab.

Changes to your restaurant’s structure work differently. Editing your menu or rearranging your floor plan on one device doesn’t push instantly to other open screens the way an order does. If a tablet looks out of date after a menu or table change, refresh it.

Where else to look

Staff working the floor typically live on this screen and switch to Sections & tables for the visual floor layout, or into a specific table’s tab for order-message conversations and detail.