u/Accomplished_Goat419

We have a restaurant and bar. We currently have it set up so that handhelds will send a ticket to the bar printer, while the bar POS will not. Because the bartenders know what they're making, they don't need a ticket, but the servers do.

We got a KDS for the bar, because those printed tickets are easy to overlook or lose. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to filter out orders from the bar like there is with the printer. When it's hopping in there, the bartenders don't want to keep going over to the screen to clear out their own orders. Our bar/restaurant setup is extremely common, has anyone figured out a workaround to keep orders from the bar from appearing on their own KDS?

I work in a small hotel, 20 rooms. We currently have DirecTV, coming through 10+ year old boxes, playing on equally old TVs picked up from WalMart.  The owner wants to upgrade our whole situation with decent TVs with a Guest Mode (we have at least one TV where we can’t log OUT of a previous guest’s Netflix account!) and some basic programming. National news, local news and weather, movies and TV shows.

The owner is an older lady, not particularly tech savvy, so sometimes doesn’t get the difference of what’s coming from the cable box and what’s coming from “Vizio Free TV.”

As for me, I haven’t had a broadcast signal since 2004. Decided we didn’t want the toddler to be bombarded with commercials, so we hooked up the DVD player and the PlayStation 1, and later jumped on the streaming bandwagon, so we haven’t missed it even a little.

That means I honestly don’t understand the state of modern TV. I know we switched from an analog to a digital signal, but I’ve literally never used it.

And now we’re going back and forth with DirecTV and Allbridge, trying to figure out our entertainment package. A full upgrade with a headend system is looking at about $20,000 after all is said and done. For hundreds of channels of total BS. “Invest in gold!” “Get a reverse mortgage!” “Send money to god!” If we gotta, we gotta, but yikes.

Do we even need a subscription TV package? Or can we get by with local broadcast and let people use their streaming services of choice? What are y'all doing out there?