Onboarding Session 3.2 - Adding Food Menus And Modifiers

Adding Food Menus And Modifiers

This section will discuss how to add food menu items into the database and create modifier PLU’s to accommodate meal modifications and various instructions to print to the kitchen/order printers in the venue.

1. Click (+) to add a new Inventory Item from Stock  

 Your Trainer will discuss the numbering guide with you and explain the kitchen/order printing options and modifiers

2. Select the appropriate Stock Group, choose the “number of items” as one and enable “Prompt for Recommended Number”

3. Click <OK> to continue and confirm the suggested numbering

4. The Inventory Detail page will appear for editing

• Enter the Description of the Meal
• Select the Stock Type as a “Recipe (Sales Based)”
   Selecting "Recipe (Sales Based)" for Food PLUs is important, so that recipe ingredients can easily added in the future if food costing is to be used. Without this selection, the items will not appear in the Recipe section of Stock.
• Outer, Inner and Inners Per Outer can be set to “Serve” and “1”
• Select the Supplier as “Recipe”
• Create a “Serve” Factor with a Divider as “1”

5. (✓) to save

6. Create a PLU using the same number as the Inventory Number

7. Edit the details of the new PLU ensuring the following details are correctly entered:

• Full Description
  The Meal name and description – recommended up to 30 characters max.  Use for reports and searching on Exceed

• POS Description
  A brief meal description – maximum 16 characters allowed.  Used for Point of Sale display, order printer dockets and customer receipts.

• PLU Group
  Selected at the time the PLU is created, these groups are used for Group Search functions at POS and for grouping on order printer dockets. 

• Revenue Group
  All menu items and modifiers should be linked accordingly to the relevant food revenue group

• Modifier
  Select “No Modifier” for all normal menu items.  Meal Modifiers such as Medium Rare, Mushroom Sauce etc. and Drink Modifiers such as No Ice, in a Tall Glass, should be selected as “Normal Modifier” as this affects how the item prints on order printer dockets

• Print Group
  Select the correct print group for where the item should print to when ordered.  Modifier PLU’s, do not need a print group selected.

8. (✓) to save