Creating and assigning menu items (Anything that can be sold to a customer is considered a menu item. Pizza, drinks, and promotional merchandise are examples of menu items.) to an Item Category is a way for you to group similar menu items together. Several features of Menu Designer use Item Categories.
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Hint Another way to group items in Menu Designer is by using Tags. Unlike Item Categories, Tags allow menu items to belong to more than one group or category. For more information on using Tags, see Using Tags to Group Menu Items. |
To Add Item Categories
1.Click the Menu Root 
, and then click the Item Categories tab.
2.Click the Add button. 
3. In the Name column, enter a name for the item category.
4.Select the Sides check box to have the category's items included in the sides count displayed in a custom "# of Sides" column in the Terminal Ticket List. (For more information on customizing and using the Terminal Ticket List, see the Customize Ticket Lists topic in Store Manager Help.)
5.(Optional) If using kitchen monitors:
a.Select the Send Item Category # to Kitchen Monitors check box to send the item category information to your integrated QSR kitchen monitor system.
b.In the # column, for each item category you are sending, type or select a unique number (1-99*). The QSR software can then be configured to assign different background and text colors to category numbers, so they can be identified more easily by prep staff.
6.Click the Save button 
on the toolbar.
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*Hint When setting up the kitchen display software, coupons will automatically use Item Category 100 and ticket notes 101. |
See Also:
•Put Items and Modifiers into Categories
•About the Menu Designer Interface
•Customize Ticket Lists (Store Manager)
