Patent ID: 8234806

Claim:
An order ticket holding system, in combination with a cooking station, said order ticket holding system mounted at the cooking station in view of a cooking attendant at the cooking station and for holding one or more order tickets for meals being prepared, said order tickets supported in a manner to be readily viewable by the cooking attendant, said cooking station comprising: at least one cooking unit and an overhead vent for exhausting air generated from the cooking unit; said order ticket holding system comprising: an elongated holder that is meant for substantially horizontal support over the cooking unit so that order tickets mounted therefrom are viewable by the cooking attendant; an elongated ticket retainer that is secured to a planar face surface of the elongated holder and capable of releasably retaining one or more order tickets; a pair of brackets that support respective end walls of the elongated holder at a position disposed over the cooking unit so that order tickets mounted by the ticket retainer are viewable by the cooking attendant; the pair of brackets and elongated holder cooperatively constructed and arranged so that the elongated holder is both pivotal relative to the brackets and adjustable in height relative to separate spaced apart members; each bracket includes an elongated planar top section having an elongated slot, a planar bottom section extending substantially in parallel to the planar top section and having a hole therethrough and a planar middle section that tapers diagonally between, and is integrally formed with, the top and bottom sections; the tapered planar middle section constructed and arranged to that the respective top sections are spaced apart a greater distance than the length of the elongated holder; the pair of brackets mounted from respective side support surfaces of the separate spaced apart members so that the brackets are spaced from each other and mount the bottom sections of the brackets between respective end walls of the elongated holder; a first pair of fasteners for pivotally supporting the end walls of the elongated holder between the bottom sections of respective brackets by engaging each fastener through the planar bottom section hole and into the end wall of the elongated holder; and a second pair of fasteners for pivotally supporting each top section of the bracket to the respective separate spaced apart member by engaging each fastener through the slot of the top section and into the separate spaced apart member.