Last updated: Nov 12, 2025, 12:27 PM
Wondering how to send orders from your QR menus to different printers at your restaurant? If you use Toast Mobile Order & Pay® in your restaurant but want to divert tickets to different prep stations based on where the guest is seated, you can use item routing.
First, please ensure your menu items are routed to a prep station before being forwarded to another. For example, if your restaurant has two bars, one for the inside and one for your outdoor patio, you will first need to ensure your drink menu is assigned to the inside bar prep station in Advanced Properties. Then, when orders are placed outside, you can forward those drink items sent from the inside bar prep station to the patio prep station.
For a refresher on assigning prep stations to parts of your menu, check out Prep Stations Basics.
Once you've ensured that your desired menu is already assigned to a prep station, you can proceed with the following steps to set up item routing based on the service area.