It's always the same story. When service really kicks off, everything moves fast and can spiral out of control quickly. A table comes in. Then a delivery order. Then another order. Then someone asks about a dish that's already 86'd. Then a ticket shows up that nobody knows where it came from. And suddenly the kitchen looks like the trading floor on crash day — everyone waving tickets around, trying to figure out whose they are and who still wants them. Nice reference, the author is rather proud of that one.
That's why we launched the new Last.app KDS, a kitchen display system connected directly to your POS so every order, every station and every status is always under control. And no, it's not "just another screen." It's the screen that stops your kitchen running on shouting, paper slips and unnecessary sprints.
With Last KDS, orders arrive in the kitchen in real time — from the dining room, the bar, delivery or your online store. Each station only sees what it needs to prepare. Tickets are organised by urgency, and the team can see what just came in, what's in preparation, what's ready, and what needs attention before the problem reaches the floor.
Because paper has its limits. And those limits usually appear at the exact moment the restaurant is packed.
What you can do with Last KDS
Last.app KDS is designed to organise the kitchen by stations or work zones. The grill station sees grill. The bar sees drinks. Each team knows exactly what they need to prepare without having to decipher a pile of tickets as if they were hieroglyphics covered in sauce.
The design of Last KDS has focused especially on ease of use — everything should be easy to see, easy to understand and easy to act on in the middle of service. Each dish appears clearly so the team can immediately identify what's missing, what's cooking and what's on its way. No straining your eyes across dozens of paper slips.
One screen per station. A more organised service. And considerably less ticket archaeology.
You can see all tickets live, as they arrive in the kitchen. Every order appears on screen with its status and a timer, so the team knows at a glance what just came in, what's been waiting the longest and what should go out first.
You can also mark products as unavailable directly from the kitchen. If a dish runs out, an ingredient, or that dessert everyone orders right when there's one sad portion left — the team can update it instantly from the KDS. The change syncs automatically with the POS, servers, delivery and online store, preventing front of house from continuing to sell something the kitchen already knows doesn't exist. Not magic exactly, but close.
Last KDS connects front of house, kitchen and delivery in a single workflow. Orders coming in from the restaurant, from external platforms or from your own online channel all arrive in the same system, with no duplicate configuration or parallel processes. Everything lives in the same ecosystem, so the team works from one single source of truth.
And above all, Last KDS helps reduce noise, errors and those wonderful moments when someone asks "has this already gone out?" and nobody wants to answer. With statuses visible, orders organised and each station working from its own screen, communication stops depending so heavily on shouting, sprinting and collective memory. The kitchen is still the kitchen, of course. But at least chaos has fewer opportunities to thrive.
Built for real kitchens
Last KDS is designed for restaurants that need speed, coordination and control during service. Especially for businesses with high order volumes, multiple stations running at the same time, delivery, an online store or virtual brands operating from one kitchen. In those environments, it's not enough for orders to just arrive — they need to arrive well-organised, to the right team and at the right time. Because when the kitchen, front of house and delivery are each running at their own pace, the service stops being a service and starts looking like an improvised choreography with knives.
Each screen can be adapted to the actual way your team works. Not the other way around. You can configure what each kitchen zone sees, which orders appear on each screen and how tasks are organised according to your daily workflow. That way, the hot station doesn't have to see bar items, the bar doesn't have to scroll through half a menu that isn't theirs, and each team can focus on preparing their part without unnecessary noise. The KDS isn't here to change how your kitchen works: it's here to make that way of working clearer, faster and considerably less chaotic.
Plus, Last KDS is connected to the Last.app ecosystem, so products, menus and orders are already synced from day one. That means no duplicating information, no maintaining separate configurations and no relying on external integrations to make everything fit. What's sold front of house, through delivery or via your online store arrives in the kitchen within the same flow, with the same information and no extra steps. No need to engineer a rocket ship just to get a dish out. The engineering challenge is already making it worth ordering.
Available now
Last KDS is now available for restaurants ready to swap paper for a more organised, more agile and more connected kitchen.
It works on Android touchscreens and the pricing is simple: €30 per venue per month with annual billing. Per venue, not per screen. If you have three screens in one kitchen, you pay once.
So if your kitchen is still running on paper tickets, shouted updates and servers asking every two minutes how their orders are coming along… it might be time to give the chaos a screen.
See you at the next update.