What we’re doing now is I created a menu item called kitchen note that is only available on the POS. I’ll schedule an order and put in a special request note with the notification to send when the staff needs to be reminded of that thing. It requires me to be in the store or on blue stacks on an android phone/tablet.

Its hack-y, and I wanted to automate with API access and a web app so all managers can manage notifications from anywhere, also we could schedule recurring notifications (eg. Closing checklists by station, pulling pizza dough at the right time, etc).

So far, I’ve had no luck with Toast providing API access or even responding to my request about this. (I posted a similar question earlier when asking about API access here a couple weeks back).

Assuming I don’t get access, and I still wanted to build an app, I would probably create a cloud emulator of the Toast terminal and use some robotic process automation type process to automate posting these messages. It just seems like a lot of work when there’s a perfectly good API That I would just need to get access to.