The recipe viewer on the line

This is the surface your cooks use. It is deliberately not the app you author in: dark ground, large type, no sidebar, nothing to sign into, and no way to change a recipe from it.

It runs on the tablet enrolled to a location — see Enrolling a recipe viewer.

The header

Everything the line needs, and nothing else:

• Your logo badge, so a cook can see at a glance whose kitchen this is
• Production / Prep — the two tabs, described below
• Search
• What’s new, with a count, when recipes have changed
• The device menu, showing the location name and station device

Production and Prep

Production is service: the menu this location is running, its items grouped as you have configured, each as a card.

Prep is the shift’s building blocks — the preps assigned to this menu, which is a separate list you control. See Prep.

A card shows the recipe name and its allergens as pills before a cook opens anything. That ordering is deliberate: allergens are the thing that must not require a tap.

Recently published recipes carry a NEW badge.

The device menu

Tapping the device chip opens:

• View — Front of House or Heart of House. See What each view shows.
• Language — English, and Spanish where enabled for your brand. See Languages and translation.
• Synced Ns ago, with a green dot.

“Synced 4s ago” is the answer to “is this current?”

The sync indicator is the most important small thing on this screen. A cook looking at a spec needs to know whether they are looking at the spec, and the honest answer is “as of this moment”.

A stale indicator is information, not a fault. If a tablet reads minutes or hours rather than seconds, its network has dropped — the recipes shown are the last ones it received. That is by design: the viewer keeps working offline, because a kitchen with no Wi-Fi still has service to run. But a change you published in that window has not arrived, and coverage on your dashboard will show it.

Tell your managers to glance at it before trusting a spec after a menu change.

The default view is a setting, not a preference

A cook can switch view on the device, but the Shows setting on the location’s page decides what that device offers in the first place — so a host-stand tablet set to Front of House only never displays build quantities. Set it per screen rather than relying on people to choose correctly during service.

What a cook cannot do

The viewer is read-only. There is no editing, no publishing and no access to drafts — a cook sees exactly what is published to their location and nothing else. The only thing they can write is an acknowledgment: see Acknowledging a recipe.