~/demos/orders

Order Queue.

A kanban for shop floors and counters. Drag a card across the day — new, making, ready, picked up — and watch the daily total roll up.

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// the problem

When the receipt printer is the system.

Most small kitchens and counters track orders on paper, sticky notes, or a Slack thread. It works — until it doesn't.

~/the-problem.sh

$ tail -f order-paper-trail

The receipt got bumped off the rail. Order forgotten for 20 minutes.

You don't know what today's revenue is until tomorrow.

New hire can't tell which orders are next without three questions.

// the solution — try it

A board your whole shift can read at a glance.

Drag a card or tap → next. Cards age while they're open; ones that sit too long in ready turn accent-colored so nobody's coffee gets cold.

~/orders.applive

open

picked up today

revenue today

$8.50

// new2 · $23.75

Maddie K.

1 min ago

2× cortado$9.00
1× cinnamon roll$5.50

$14.50

Drew R.

3 min ago

1× latte$5.00
1× blueberry muffin$4.25

$9.25

// making2 · $98.00

Hometown Studios

6 min ago

4× drip coffee$14.00

$14.00

Iowan Foodie

9 min ago

12× sourdough loaf$84.00

$84.00

// ready for pickup2 · $50.75

Sam P.

11 min ago · stale

1× flat white$5.00
1× scone$3.75

$8.75

Two Makers Co.

14 min ago · stale

3× box of 6 cookies$42.00

$42.00

// picked up2

Riley T.

22 min ago

1× cold brew$4.50

$4.50

Tasha O.

28 min ago

1× americano$4.00

$4.00

drag cards across columns· or tap → next on a card· cards age automatically while open

// in production

What this becomes when it's real.

►~/in-production.mdavg setup: 3–6 weeks

✓01 / intake

Orders flow in automatically

Square, Toast, Shopify, Squarespace forms — wherever the order is placed, it lands in the queue with no double entry.

✓02 / display

A kitchen-display version

Same data, bigger fonts, no chrome. Mounts on a shop-floor TV so the team always knows what's next without checking a phone.

✓03 / notify

Customer pings on "ready"

When a card moves to ready, the customer gets an SMS or email. Cuts curbside back-and-forth and "is mine done yet" messages.

✓04 / report

End-of-day in one tab

Daily revenue, average prep time, top-selling items, repeat customers — exported to your books or just pinned to the wall.

→ This demo runs entirely in your browser. No orders are stored, nothing is sent.

// like what you see?

Need something like this?

I build order-queue and shop-floor tools wired to your point-of-sale and online orders.