Lazy Lizard - Kitchen Performance
Service of 2026-08-07 · 11:00 AM-1:00 AM · 2313 food tickets · generated 2026-08-08 06:00
The bottom line
Bottleneck
QUESO
Cooking 5:30 vs 6:00 target
Biggest lever
40% waiting
Most ticket time is items sitting, not cooking
Prep-start skipped
Compliance
EL GRILL 31% · FRY 39%
A median food ticket is on screen 5:36 = 2:13 waiting + 3:21 cooking. Cooking is roughly on target across most stations; the drag is coordination/wait.
Kitchen by station
| Station | Tickets | On screen | Waiting | Cooking | Target | Start-btn | Status |
| QUESO | 226 | 7:52 | 2:17 | 5:30 | 6:00 | 85% | on track |
| EL FRY/STEAM | 451 | 6:33 | 2:03 | 4:31 | 4:00 | 69% | on track |
| GRILL | 437 | 5:28 | 3:15 | 1:54 | 3:00 | 82% | mostly wait |
| SALAD/WRAP | 339 | 4:58 | 1:32 | 2:59 | 6:15 | 83% | on track |
| EL GRILL | 490 | 4:53 | 2:01 | 3:07 | 4:00 | 31% | on track |
| FRY | 370 | 4:07 | 1:42 | 3:13 | 6:00 | 39% | on track |
Cooking = start-button to bump. Waiting = fired to start-button. Start-btn = share of tickets where a prep start was logged; low values mean the split isn't reliable and the button is being skipped.
Items to watch - worst over target
| Item | Station | Tickets | Target | Actual | Over | Basis |
| Caesar | EL GRILL | 1 | 4:30 | 19:14 | 14:44 | screen |
| Caesar | QUESO | 1 | 4:30 | 15:32 | 11:02 | screen |
| Garden | QUESO | 1 | 4:30 | 10:33 | 6:03 | screen |
| Blackened CC S | EL GRILL | 5 | 2:30 | 7:16 | 4:46 | cook |
| Chameleon Sld | QUESO | 1 | 4:30 | 9:05 | 4:35 | cook |
| Chameleon Sld | EL GRILL | 1 | 4:30 | 8:22 | 3:52 | screen |
| BLK Chx Brooke GREENS | EL GRILL | 10 | 3:00 | 6:37 | 3:37 | cook |
| Chx PALOKE GREENS | EL GRILL | 14 | 3:00 | 6:04 | 3:04 | cook |
| BLK CrabCake GREENS | EL GRILL | 4 | 2:30 | 5:13 | 2:43 | cook |
| Spicy Liz Q /GREENw/ | QUESO | 22 | 6:00 | 8:43 | 2:43 | cook |
| Buffalo Q /BLUEw/ | QUESO | 16 | 6:00 | 8:20 | 2:20 | cook |
| Chameleon Sld | GRILL | 11 | 4:30 | 6:49 | 2:19 | cook |
Expo - plates-ready gap
| Screen | Tickets | Median gap |
| App Expo | 300 | 0:24 |
| Entree Expo | 438 | 0:59 |
Bar service (not graded)
| Bar | Drinks | Median | Max | Over 5 min | |
| Alc Bar 1 | 274 | 1:20 | 10:46 | 6 | check |
| Alc Bar 2 | 251 | 1:34 | 6:09 | 4 | check |
| Alc Bar 3 | 102 | 1:30 | 8:28 | 4 | check |
| SD Bar 1 | 181 | 9:25 | 84:12 | 129 | check |
| SD Bar 2 | 197 | 3:24 | 52:55 | 60 | check |
| SD Bar 3 | 63 | 3:42 | 77:25 | 28 | check |
Soft-drink stations can show long times because sodas auto-fire and sit un-bumped - a measurement quirk, not slow service.