https://community.squareup.com/t5/Orders-Menu-Items-Catalog/Kitchen-Routing-for-Menus/m-p/837487#M23017 <P>Why can’t I route a menu to a kitchen KDS? &nbsp;That seems like such a logical thing. &nbsp;I can’t seem to route items the way I need to with Square and it’s making running my business quite the challenge.</P> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:14:34 GMT snowpacktaproom 2026-03-06T04:14:34Z https://community.squareup.com/t5/Orders-Menu-Items-Catalog/Kitchen-Routing-for-Menus/m-p/837487#M23017 <P>Why can’t I route a menu to a kitchen KDS? &nbsp;That seems like such a logical thing. &nbsp;I can’t seem to route items the way I need to with Square and it’s making running my business quite the challenge.</P> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:14:34 GMT https://community.squareup.com/t5/Orders-Menu-Items-Catalog/Kitchen-Routing-for-Menus/m-p/837487#M23017 snowpacktaproom 2026-03-06T04:14:34Z https://community.squareup.com/t5/Orders-Menu-Items-Catalog/Kitchen-Routing-for-Menus/m-p/837500#M23019 <P>Hey there&nbsp;<a href="https://community.squareup.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/50300">@snowpacktaproom</a>.. Currently, that is just not possible -- at least not using menus. &nbsp;However, you can set up your items and KDS to use what are called "kitchen routing categories." &nbsp;You could create one of these categories and put all items that are on a menu into that category. &nbsp;Then set up the KDS to filter orders that belong that that category. &nbsp;<A href="https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/8170-filter-orders-by-category-with-square-kds" target="_self">Here's a link</A> to the help documentation for doing this.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Otherwise, you can <A href="https://community.squareup.com/t5/Feature-Requests/idb-p/product-ideas" target="_self">submit a feature request here</A> asking for routing by menu. &nbsp;The team will consider it.&nbsp;</P> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:51:20 GMT https://community.squareup.com/t5/Orders-Menu-Items-Catalog/Kitchen-Routing-for-Menus/m-p/837500#M23019 TheRealChipA 2026-03-06T12:51:20Z