(CE) Operating Hours

This section is for managing how Open Kitchen tracks operating hours for your locations. Certain alerts, reports, and other features can reference these schedules to improve performance. You can also create date restricted schedules for temporary changes (like holidays or renovations). To begin, click on the Add Schedule button indicated below. In the popup you […]

(CE) Organization

In Open Kitchen, sites can be added in hierarchies and groups for use in other sections. By default, hierarchies are referred to as “Regions” and “Sub-regions”, but you can add whatever terminology you prefer using the Rename Hierarchy Levels action on the right side of the screen. Selected rows will be highlighted blue. Your selection […]

(CE) Account

This section holds the information tied to your account as a whole. You can change the address of the account, update the logo that appears in the upper right of the screen on all pages, and enable webhooks from the Account Info tab. Updating the logo will require you to choose an appropriate file from […]

(CE) Connectivity

This tab is designed to help locate where in flow of data that communication has stopped. It’s oriented with the Open Kitchen Cloud at the top of the chain, and each step of connectivity below that is indented further to the right. To reveal each level, click on the green + icons to the left. […]

(CE) Data Sources

This section displays the link between data outputs from your physical equipment and the virtual equipment that displays the information in Open Kitchen. All of the associations on this page happen automatically, and they should not be changed unless necessary. If you think that something looks incorrect, please send an inquiry via email to phd_connected_bundles@powerhousedynamics.com.   […]

(CE) Export

This tab is used to extract a copy of the data we received from your equipment in Open Kitchen. Using the table, select which outputs you’d like to receive and choose either Excel or JSON for your export. You’ll receive a file that shows all the timestamps and values we received for the outputs you’ve […]

(CE) Food Safety – Location View

This section of the location view will provide copies of any relevant Reports or Task Completion summaries associated with the Food Safety section in the navigation panel. Individual tasks can be activated or deactivated by clicking on the dots in the upper right corner of the Task Completion widget.

(CE) Key Metrics

This tab is most useful to examine parameters from your equipment that are recorded as totals. Open Kitchen helps you designate a date range to see how much those parameters have increased over that period of time. For example, seeing the lifetime number of products served in Current Readings might not be useful, but using […]

(CE) History

This tab consists of 3 widgets. The Performance widget is a customizable chart that will show how different parameters of your equipment change over time. Select the three dots in the upper right of the widget to change what values are shown. It’s a powerful diagnostic tool that may be especially helpful when working with […]

(CE) Current Status

This tab is similar to the Current Readings widget, but it is useful when displaying large amounts of information. The below example is from a Middleby Marshall conveyor oven. 

(CE) Equipment

This section will list all of the connected equipment that is associated with a location. You do not need to add equipment or do any manipulation on this page. Open Kitchen will handle all of the provisioning for your equipment automatically. To navigate to a particular piece of equipment, either click on its blue name […]