Add kitchen names to items
About kitchen names
Kitchen names let you customise how your items appear on printed order tickets and kitchen displays. A kitchen name is an internal name for any item, variation, or modifier you can set to the preferences of your business. You can create custom names that are shorter, more detailed, or in the preferred language of your kitchen staff.
Before you begin
You can add kitchen names to your existing items from your Square Dashboard. Learn how to create and edit items. Kitchen names only display on your Square KDS and on printed kitchen tickets. They will not show on your Square Point of Sale apps or on your customers’ printed receipts.
You can set your printer profile to display your kitchen names from your Square Dashboard, Square Restaurant POS app or Square KDS app. Learn how to set up printer profiles.
Create a kitchen name
You can add kitchen names to your items from your Square Dashboard.
Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & orders > Items > Item library.
Select an item from your item library.
Enter your kitchen name in the Kitchen facing name field.
Click Save.
Display kitchen names on tickets
Once your kitchen names are added and your printer profile created, you can specify if an order ticket will use the kitchen name for each printer station.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Settings > Device Management, then click Profiles > Printer profiles.
- Select your printer profile and click Edit next to Profile settings.
- Toggle on In-person order tickets.
- Tick Print kitchen names.
- Click Save.
- Open your Square for Restaurants app or Square KDS app, and tap More, then Settings, then Hardware.
- Tap Printers below Connect and manage.
- Tap Profiles, then tap the > arrow icon next to Assign.
- Tap Edit next to Profile details.
- Tap In-person orders and toggle ON Use this printer for in-person order tickets.
- Toggle ON Print kitchen names.
- Tap the < arrow icon then tap Save.