Design a menu sync architecture that feeds a KDS or aggregator from a POS using PAR Brink's documented polling and change-detection pattern
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Steps
Recognize that PAR Brink documents polling, not webhooks, as its supported pattern for detecting menu/settings changes
Call GetLastModifiedTime (Settings2.svc) on a schedule to detect whether menu/settings data changed before re-pulling the full menu
Respect documented concurrency and frequency limits when polling multiple locations — roughly 5 concurrent calls with a 2-3 minute sleep for multi-tenant integrations, versus 10 concurrent calls with a 1 minute sleep for single-tenant setups
Use ModifiedTime-filtered order/shift queries for near-real-time dashboarding needs rather than polling full menu data at the same frequency as transactional data
Push detected changes into the KDS/aggregator idempotently, keyed by the underlying record's stable ID rather than by poll-cycle timestamp, since GetLastModifiedTime only signals that something changed, not what
Known gotchas
Brink has no webhook option for menu/settings changes — any architecture assuming push notifications must be redesigned around polling
Exceeding the documented concurrency/frequency limits, which differ for multi-tenant vs single-tenant integrations, risks throttling or degraded service
GetLastModifiedTime is a change signal only, not a diff — a full re-pull and your own idempotent merge logic are still required once a change is detected
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