TouchBistro KDS vs Gordon Now
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TouchBistro KDS
This kitchen display system streamlines food preparation by replacing traditional printers. It helps track cooking times, manage orders with color-coded chits, and customize the display for efficiency. Users can easily close, reopen, and rearrange orders.
- Track cooking and preparation times
- Close chits by swiping
- View and reopen old chits
- Color-coded chits for status
- Customizable font and chit size
- Rearrange chits by dragging
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TouchBistro KDS is a kitchen display system for the TouchBistro Food & Beverage app. Save time & money by using this KDS vs a traditional printer, or use it alongside a printer for additional functionality. Features include: - Track cooking & preparation times by tapping items when they've started or been completed - Quickly and easily close chits by swiping them away - View old chits and reopen them if necessary - Color coded chits to indicate at a glance how long they've been waiting - Change font & chit size to customize your experience - Specify whether new chits appear from the left or right - View a quick summary of all items currently in progress - Rearrange chits by simply tapping and dragging
Gordon Now
Track your current food service delivery with real-time updates on estimated arrival, truck contents, and out-of-stock alerts. Access past orders and request chemical and beverage services. Links to online ordering are also provided.
- Real-time truck arrival estimates
- View truck contents
- Out-of-stock and short-ship alerts
- Access past orders
- Request chemical and beverage service
- Quick links to online ordering
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Got a Gordon Food Service business account? Gordon Now is your ordering app. Search the catalog or start from your order guide, then build your order and check out from your phone. See when your truck will get there, what is on it, and which items are out of stock or coming up short. Pull up past orders to check what you bought. Gordon Now is another way that Gordon Food Service is always at your table to help you run your operation. Shopping a Gordon Food Service Store for your home? Please use gfsstore.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TouchBistro KDS at 4.0 against Gordon Now's 2.6. TouchBistro KDS also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). Gordon Now's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (42 vs 6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TouchBistro KDS holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gordon Now has 42 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of TouchBistro KDS's written reviews are positive against 26% of Gordon Now's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
TouchBistro KDS ships an update every 8 months, Gordon Now every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TouchBistro KDS | Gordon Now |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better | 2.6 (42 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 25.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 42 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TouchBistro Inc. | Gordon Food Service, Inc. |
Customer experience
TouchBistro KDS
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In-app purchases
TouchBistro KDS
No in-app purchases
Gordon Now
No in-app purchases
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