Diyafa

Orders & kitchen

Every order on one screen.None forgotten, none made twice.

Table orders, counter orders and guest calls reach your team with a chime. They accept in one tap, with a ready time worked out from the dishes, so the kitchen knows what to start first and, if you want, the guest sees a countdown on their phone.

Free for 14 days, then EGP 499 a month with no commission

Before and after

What changes for your team, order by order.

Same team, same kitchen. The difference: every order has one place, and everyone knows their part in it.

1An order comes in

A new order

Usually

A slip or a shout, and if nobody hears, it's forgotten

With Diyafa

A chime and a card in New. Unanswered for 3 minutes, it turns amber and chimes again

No order slips through

Two staff, one order

Usually

Both make it, or each thinks the other did

With Diyafa

Only the first accept counts, and the other sees someone got there first

Nothing gets made twice

A guest orders through a waiter

Usually

A second notebook, and the order walked to the kitchen

With Diyafa

New order from your waiters' or managers' phones, for a table or the counter

Every order in one place

2In the kitchen

What to make first?

Usually

A guess, or the order of slips on the rail

With Diyafa

A ticket per order, the one due first at the top, with a clock that turns red when it's late

What's due first goes out first

A dish needs longer

Usually

Someone walks out to tell the table, or nobody does

With Diyafa

+5 on the ticket, and the guest's countdown moves with it

The time the guest sees stays true

An order is ready

Usually

The kitchen bell, or someone shouting a table number

With Diyafa

Ready on the ticket moves it to Ready for the floor, and a counter guest's phone shows it's ready

The floor knows what to pick up

3Your team

Someone new joins

Usually

You hand over the password everyone shares

With Diyafa

An invite with their role, by email, link or QR code, usable once within 7 days

Everyone on their own account

Who can cancel an order?

Usually

Whoever is holding the device can cancel or reject

With Diyafa

A kitchen account can't accept, reject or cancel. That's for waiters, managers and owners

Everyone sticks to their part

Someone leaves the team

Usually

The shared password still works for them

With Diyafa

Remove them in one tap and their access ends at once; if they come back, send a new invite

Nothing to change behind them

The Now screen

Every order in its lane, from arrival to served.

Each card shows the table or the counter number, who ordered, how long ago, the items with their choices, and the total.

  1. 1New

    Chimes for each order, and turns amber after 3 minutes unanswered.

  2. 2Kitchen

    A countdown on each, +5 if it needs longer, red once it's late.

  3. 3Ready

    Waiting to be served. Tap Served and it leaves the screen.

  4. 4Guest calls

    Waiter, water, the bill with its amount, and On it so the guest knows.

Accepting

Your team checks every order before it reaches the kitchen.

One tap: check the items, set the ready time, and, if you use it, the guest's countdown starts.

  1. A time from the dishes

    The ready time fills in from the dish that takes longest to make; adjust it with +5 and −5 before accepting.

  2. Stock warns you

    If your stock says a dish may have run out, the card shows it before you accept. How stock knows

  3. Out of something? Strike it

    Tap it while accepting: it leaves the order and is marked sold out on the menu, so nobody else orders it. A waiter's strike only removes it from this order.

  4. Reject with a reason

    Item unavailable, kitchen closing or not at this table. The guest sees why.

The kitchen screen

Tickets in big type, readable across the kitchen.

Any phone or tablet you already have becomes the kitchen screen, in the browser. One ticket per order, the one due first at the top, its clock counting down: amber in the last 3 minutes, red once it's late.

Orders from your team

Guest would rather not use their phone? Your team orders for them.

New order from the board or a table on the floor. Pick the table or the counter, and it goes straight to the kitchen, alongside their friends' orders.

  • Search the menu

    Type the first letters instead of scrolling.

  • Straight to the kitchen

    No accept step: someone on your team already took it.

  • The order waits for you

    Left it halfway? Finish it later for the same table, on the same device.

  • Who took it

    The card and the ticket say who on your team entered it.

Your team

Everyone on their own account, each role seeing its own work.

You or a manager sends the invite with the role, by email, link or QR code, usable once within 7 days. Nobody needs a shared password.

Owner and manager
Everything. A manager manages waiters and the kitchen only.
Waiter
Now, Floor, Kitchen and Feedback.
Kitchen
The kitchen screen, Stock and Feedback.

The details

Details that matter at the rush.

  • Sound

    A chime on the Now screen for each new order, guest call and order left waiting; turn the sound off on any device.

  • On a phone too

    The lanes become tabs with their counts, one lane at a time.

  • If the internet drops

    The title says Reconnecting…, and the screen catches up by itself when it's back.

  • Pause ordering

    Too busy? Guests can read the menu but can't order until you switch it back on. Your team can still enter orders.

  • Order 2 isn't a duplicate

    A table's second order carries its number, so nobody thinks it was sent twice.

  • A mistake, even after serving?

    Cancel the order and take it off the bill until the table is cleared. It asks “Was the food made?”: back in stock, or recorded as waste with its reason. Waste in Stock

Orders live on screens, not paper.

Diyafa doesn't print tickets or connect to your cashier system yet. The kitchen reads its tickets on screen, and your cashier rings orders up and takes payment as they do today.

And it carries on into Diyafa's other services.

Questions about orders and the kitchen.

Do I need to buy a kitchen screen?

No. Any phone or tablet you already have, in the browser. Tickets are in big type so they read from a distance.

Can the kitchen accept or cancel orders?

No. A kitchen account taps +5, Ready and Served only. Accepting, rejecting and cancelling are for waiters, managers and owners.

Why does an order need accepting?

So someone on your team checks it before the kitchen starts, removes anything that's run out, and sets a ready time the guest can count on. Orders your team enters go straight to the kitchen.