Preparation time
The preparation time is the average time in seconds between posting an Article on the Sales Point and its expected completion in the kitchen or at the counter. It is stored on the article master record and used by the Order Monitor to stagger the display sequence within a Course, so that all articles of the course finish at roughly the same time.
Also known as
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Prep time — short form common in gastronomy.
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Processing time — the label used in the Manager UI, in the report titles Processing time/Time and Processing time/Day.
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Target time — the same value seen from the reports, shown there in the Target column.
Distinction
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Preparation time (this page) — value per article; drives the staggering on the Order Monitor.
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Maximum preparation time — value per course; the upper bound on a guest's waiting time within the course. If a single article's preparation time exceeds this bound, the article is displayed immediately instead of pushing the rest of the course's articles artificially backwards.
Checking it in the Manager
Whether the stored value still matches reality is shown by the Processing time/Time and Processing time/Day reports in bessa Manager. They compare the measured duration with the target value and let you correct the target value directly in the report row — see Check and Correct Preparation Times.