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Have you watched our Menu Engineering video and are ready to take action? Below, find helpful resources linked in each chapter so you can make the most of your menu.
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Learn about the Food Waste Education Hub and how to use the Food Waste Tracker on your POS.
There’s more to a great menu than a beautiful design and layout. This article explains how to use your menu as a marketing tool, introducing potential customers to your brand and getting them excited about your unique cuisine.
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Recipe Costing in xtraCHEF lets you view to-the-cent prime costs, menu item profit margins, and more. Learn more about this tool and how to get started.
If you use Toast Online Ordering or Mobile Order & Pay, you can use item tags to differentiate your menu items. This is also helpful for menu engineering because it gives another dimension to your reporting.
With item-based rewards, restaurants using Toast Loyalty can offer a specific reward to loyal guests rather than a cash-back reward. You can configure a menu item, menu group, or menu subgroup as an earned reward, making this a great way to spotlight your Puzzles.
With Toast’s Offers Dashboard, you can create, track & manage, and share offers with your guests. This can be a great way to encourage purchases for your Puzzles—menu items with high profitability but low popularity.
Using the Menu Manager in Toast Web, you can create menu items that are available for a limited time or as part of a daily/weekly special—a great way to curb food waste that may result from your Plowhorses.
Online Ordering Pro subscribers can utilize the Customize feature to select up to three menu items to be featured on top of the online ordering page (per location.) Additionally, you can specify which upsell items appear when items from a given memo are added to the cart.
Popular items are visible on your digital menus when using Toast Mobile Payments and digital menus. With the popular items feature, your guests see a curated list of the most-ordered dishes over the past 30 days.
Having different menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner can make a meal’s experience feel curated and take the pressure off making a decision from one long list one list with too many options. Here's how to set menu availability to ensure your guests see the appropriate menus depending on the time of day.
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