Coursing
Coursing is the sequencing of a table's meal: which dishes come out together as a course, in what order, and how long the kitchen waits between rounds. The server sets it on the order, the kitchen fires each round on the call, and appetizers landing while the table is mid-entrée is a coursing failure.
Coursing lives on the ticket, in the same place an allergy does. Both get entered by the server when the order is rung, both print to the line, and neither exists for the kitchen if nobody typed them. That shared dependency is why a house loose about coursing notes tends to be loose about allergy notes: it is one habit, not two.
A guest’s usual pacing is knowable in advance. Some tables want three hours and four courses and others want to be out in ninety minutes, and a party that has visited before has already shown which. That belongs on the guest record where the host stand and the server can see it before the first order is rung, rather than being rediscovered mid-service.
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