Tap a dish, the kitchen hears it instantly, and a countdown tells you when to swap it out.
Bar Order Caller was designed for buffet hot bars to replace shouting, hand signals, and paper tickets. When a server or hot-bar worker sees a dish running low, they tap it on an iPad, and the matching kitchen station immediately sees and hears the order. When the dish goes out, one more tap starts the freshness countdown, so everyone knows exactly how long it has been on the bar.
Built for Chinese buffet restaurants: the interface is fully bilingual in English and Chinese, with Spanish portion options for kitchen staff. No training manuals, no employee accounts, one shared setup for the whole restaurant.
The hot-bar screen shows every dish as a large photo button, grouped by kitchen station. Tap a dish and choose the portion: small, medium, or normal.
The order appears on the station's screen within seconds and is announced out loud, so cooks never have to watch the screen. Each order card shows the dish photo, portion, and call time.
One tap clears the order from every device and automatically starts that dish's freshness timer.
Staff see every dish's freshness at a glance. The last 10 minutes turn red, and an overdue dish flashes a red overtime badge as a reminder to replace it.
Every iPad and iPhone in the restaurant syncs automatically over Wi-Fi. Call an order on one device and all the others show it.
Large photo buttons grouped by kitchen station, with three portion sizes per dish. Voice announcements mean no screen-watching, live badges show portion, call time, and ×2 / ×3 repeat counts, and a dish can't be called again until the last call is done.
An independent countdown per dish keeps food from sitting too long. Freshness windows are set per dish (15 minutes to 8 hours, 2 hours by default), the last 10 minutes warn in red, then an overdue badge flashes. Timers can start automatically morning and evening, with per-weekday settings.
65 dishes pre-loaded with photos across three stations: fryer, wok, and prep. Add stations and dishes anytime, rename dishes, or replace photos from your camera roll. Mark dishes lunch, dinner, all-day, or seasonal, and the menu switches with the shift. Drag to reorder to match your real line, and set different layouts for wall-mounted iPads and handheld iPhones.
Every call logged with date, time, and portion. Search by dish, filter by date range, see the most-called dishes, and export the full record to CSV for spreadsheets or your accountant.
No more shouting across the dining room to the kitchen. Orders go straight to the right station.
The freshness countdown turns "it feels like it's been out a while" into an exact number everyone can see, so dishes get changed at the right time: not too early, not too late.
The kitchen hears every order, and it stays on screen until someone marks it done. A called dish can't be called twice.
One tap updates every iPad in the restaurant. New staff learn it in minutes: the buttons are photos, and the system talks.
Reports show exactly which dishes get called, how often, and at what times, so you can prep smarter and cut slow movers. Export the data for your own records.
Timers start themselves every day, and the lunch and dinner menus switch automatically. Staff only ever tap once.
Bar Order Caller is an iPad order-calling system built for buffet hot bars. Staff tap a dish and pick a portion; the matching kitchen station instantly sees and hears the order. One tap marks it sent out and starts the freshness countdown, so no one has to guess how long a dish has been sitting. Fully bilingual, pre-loaded with 65 dishes, with automatic lunch and dinner switching and CSV export of the full call history.
Contact us to book a demo, and we'll configure Bar Order Caller around your menu and kitchen stations.
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