FloCafe KDS sends front-of-house restaurant orders to a kitchen screen, where staff can follow live tickets, preparation status, table context, and timing. Tickets can show the table, order type, items, modifiers, notes, and elapsed time. Kitchen teams can use a full board or filter tickets by prep station, such as grill, cold, drinks, or expo. The KDS is included in FloCafe, a restaurant POS covering dine-in, takeaway, delivery, tables, printing, menus, and local data. Operators can run it on infrastructure they manage, including a local device, desktop environment, or local network. The maker says it does not operate a central cloud database for restaurant data, and that business records stay under the operator’s control. Anonymous launch and usage pings are on by default; they can be disabled in Settings and exclude business data. FloCafe is free, open-source software under the MIT license, with no subscription fee; hardware and operating costs are separate. Desktop downloads are listed for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Who it is for
FloCafe KDS is intended for restaurant businesses and staff who need to route and track kitchen tickets. It may suit operators who value open-source code, local data control, and the ability to adapt the system.
What is good
- Displays live tickets and preparation status
- Tickets can include modifiers, notes, and elapsed time
- Staff can filter tickets by prep station
- Free open-source software under the MIT license
- Runs on operator-controlled infrastructure
What to know first
- Supplied without warranty
- Operators are responsible for testing, backups, and access control
- Anonymous launch and usage pings are on by default
- Hardware and operating costs are separate
Verdict
FloCafe KDS combines kitchen ticket views with a wider restaurant POS and operator-controlled deployment. Before using it in production, account for the operator’s responsibilities and test kitchen printing, network recovery, and reprint behavior; the maker notes many teams keep printing as backup.
FloCafe KDS plans and pricing
All plansCompared on kitchen display system software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Station routing
- Yes
- Order status tracking
- Yes
- Expo screen
- Yes
- Offline mode
- Yes
- Deployment
- on_premise
