Where recipes are ‘things’ you’d normally produce in-house, in bulk (ie gravy, anchovy mayonnaise), Dishes are the actual items you sell to customers.
These are the menu items you have set up on your POS.
1. Go to Products -> Recipes & Dishes -> Dishes -> Add Dish
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2. Fill in the ‘General info’ details such as Dish name, and choose a category (Food or Beverages)
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3. Sections
Your dish can contain several sections. For example: Starter, Main and Dessert.
To create a section, click on the ‘+ Section’ -> Add a ‘Section name’
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4. Add ingredients in each ‘Section
Click on ‘+ Ingredient’ -> Select ‘Product’, ‘Recipe’ or ‘Other ingredient’ -> Add Quantity
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Add Quantity
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- To add more ‘Ingredients’ to the same ‘Section’ click on the ‘+’ on the right-hand side of the first ingredient you added to this section
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- You can also add a picture of your dish
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- If any of the added ingredients (Products and/or Recipes) have Allergens assigned to them, these will appear to the right of the image
5. Continue to adding Method, any Files and Notes to make your Dish complete
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6. Go to Sales & Profit tab
Here you can see the Cost & Profit of your dish.
- Add the Sales price (this can be Gross or Net) but bear in mind, your ingredients’ cost is most likely in ‘Net’ values
- Add POD ID - this is the ID you have assigned in your POS. This is critical to ensure that the mapping between your sales & dishes is complete. This way, you ensure the accuracy of all the reports in growyze
- You can also add a ‘Target margin %’. Click ‘Save’ to get a ‘Suggested Sales price’
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7. Click ‘Create’ to create and save the Dish
8. Printing a ‘Dish’
Open the Dish you’d like to print -> click on the three dots at the bottom by the ‘Save’ button
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9. Deleting a Dish
- From the Dishes dashboard, find the Dish you’d like to delete
- Click ‘Delete’
- Confirm
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