In high-volume, multi-unit environments like food halls, brewery-anchored marketplaces, and fast-growing pickleball entertainment venues the way guests order, pay, and move throughout the space directly shapes their experience. The challenge is simple to explain but hard to solve: guests want frictionless ordering everywhere in the venue, while operators and vendors need precise revenue allocation, clean reporting, and fair distribution of tips and taxes.
As back-of-house operations become more complex—and guest expectations continue rising—Kitchen Display Systems (KDS) have evolved from “nice-to-have tech” into an essential engine for running smooth, efficient, and guest-friendly hospitality operations. Whether you’re a brewery expanding into food, a taproom juggling off-peak and peak periods, or a multi-station kitchen managing cross-team coordination, a modern KDS helps eliminate friction while unlocking measurable gains across service, throughput, and guest satisfaction.
In fast-paced hospitality environments—taprooms, breweries, family entertainment centers, food halls, and quick-service restaurants—a Kitchen Display System (KDS) is now the operational backbone that keeps orders flowing, food consistent, and teams in sync. A KDS replaces the chaos of printed tickets, verbal and manual communication, and guesswork with a centralized, dynamic, and intelligent production queue. In this article, we break down how a modern KDS works end-to-end, using real examples from operators evaluating GoTab’s flexible KDS and back-of-house tooling.
Restaurant technology has advanced rapidly over the past decade, but 2025 marks a definitive shift in how operators think about the systems that power their business. Today’s restaurant POS is no longer a static terminal or a single-purpose cash register—it’s a dynamic, cloud-connected, mobile-first platform that underpins the entire guest experience. From busy mountain-town taverns to sprawling entertainment destinations, modern operators expect speed, reliability, flexibility, and deep integration across every part of their tech stack.
We’re excited to introduce Option Group Tagging, a powerful enhancement that gives you precise control over how cart rules apply at the item-level and the modifier-level. Whether you're running taproom specials, offering size-based pricing incentives, or building more nuanced menu logic, this update helps you deliver the exact experience you intend—automatically.
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GoTab’s new scheduled gift card functionality makes gifting frictionless and fully automated—no more setting reminders, no more last-minute scrambling. Guests simply choose an amount, enter recipient information, select a future date, and GoTab takes care of the rest.
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GoTab, a leading Point-of-Sale (POS) platform, announced the launch of four new integrations to its partner ecosystem. These new POS integrations cater to the varied demands of restaurants, breweries, bars, and eatertainment venues, empowering them with more versatile solutions.
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Hospitality commerce platform announces further expansion of integrated partner ecosystem, introducing a range of new solutions designed to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience of hospitality businesses
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Leading commerce platform bolsters presence in the growing eatertainment category; Integration with Restaurant365 enables labor optimization and operational excellence