MICROS Glossary of Hospitality Industry Terminology
| Term | Definition |
| KDS | Kitchen Display System (KDS) - Kitchen Display System. A network of video display screens that display remote orders. Also see – Video Display |
| Key Code | A 4-digit ID assigned to each key of a keyboard. It identifies the location in the database files of the menu item associated with that key. |
| Keyboard Overlay | A map of keys that lies over the keyboard and identifies to the user what each function key does. |
| Kilobyte | A unit for measuring computer memory capacity. One kilobyte is equal to 1,024 bytes. |
| Kitchen Display System (KDS) | Kitchen Display System. A network of video display screens that display remote orders. Also see – Video Display |
| Kitchen Labor | The dollar amount spent to pay the salaries of the kitchen staff (cooks, dishwashers, food runners, all but service related). Kitchen Labor percentage is the percentage of gross sales that must be allotted to pay these salaries. This percentage is usually calculated from only food sales and not total sales which may include liquor or beverage dollars that the kitchen staff did not help to generate.Example: A restaurant does a total of $6,000.00 in food sales for a particular day. On this day, they had 10 cooks and 2 dishwashers work a total of 8 hours each, at $9.00 an hour each. The kitchen labor for that day would then be $864.00. The kitchen Labor percentage for that day would be $864.00 (total labor dollars spent that day) divided by $6,000.00 (gross food sales for that day) which equals 14%. So 14% of this restaurant's total food sales for that day, will need to be used to pay for the kitchen staff they had working that day. |
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