Kitchen Display System

A KDS that learns your prep times.

Nova's KDS doesn't just route tickets — it predicts prep duration per item, balances stations, and surfaces delays before a guest notices. Vision AI on station throughput. Replaces ConnectSmart and Fresh KDS.

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What is the Nova Kitchen Display System?

Nova KDS is the kitchen display layer inside Nova's restaurant operating system. It routes tickets to stations, predicts prep duration per item from trained kitchen data, surfaces tickets aging beyond threshold, and integrates with Vision AI for real-time station throughput monitoring. Replaces ConnectSmart, Fresh KDS and other standalone vendors.

BENEFIT 01

Per-item prep prediction.
Trained on your kitchen.

Most KDS systems route a ticket and start a timer. Nova KDS predicts how long this specific ticket will take in this specific kitchen — based on item complexity, current station load, and historical pattern. Managers see the truthful estimate.

Per-item prep prediction trained on your kitchen
Per-station load balancing in real time
Ticket aging surfaced before complaints land
Honest ETA — not a default 12 minutes

BENEFIT 02

Vision AI on the line.

Pair the KDS with Vision AI cameras and the system sees what the display can't — station throughput, prep adherence, hand hygiene, hold times. Alerts go to the manager handheld in real time.

Vision AI monitors station throughput
Prep-adherence checks against recipe spec
Hold-time and food-safety alerts
Annotated clips attached to alerts

90s

Fry-station regression caught — before end of daypart

BENEFIT 03

Sub-second sync.
From every channel.

POS, online ordering, mobile, kiosk, drive-thru — every ticket lands at KDS in sub-second time. Marketplace orders (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub) integrated natively. No third-party tablets at the expo.

Sub-second sync from every channel
DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub orders inline
No third-party tablets at the expo line
Color-coded by channel and daypart

Real example — fry-station catch

Vision AI integrated with KDS flagged a 90-second prep regression on the fry station 40 minutes into lunch service. The manager swapped a station mid-rush. Throughput recovered by the next daypart — saving an estimated 40+ delayed tickets and a much larger number that historically would have gone unnoticed.

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Run the kitchen on AI that actually sees it.

20-minute walkthrough of Nova KDS plus Vision AI. Bring a busy daypart from your current KDS; we'll show you what gets caught in advance, not after.

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A KDS that learns your prep times.

Per-item prep prediction.Trained on your kitchen.

Vision AI on the line.

Sub-second sync.From every channel.

Pairs with

Modern POS

Handhelds

Vision AI

Run the kitchen on AI that actually sees it.

Per-item prep prediction.
Trained on your kitchen.

Sub-second sync.
From every channel.