Make the Most of Your Menu

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.

Menu engineering 101

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Product Mix Report

Sort, filter, and search by categories like menu items sold, sales category, and net sales to pull whatever is valuable for your time period.

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Food Waste Reduction

Learn about the Food Waste Education Hub and how to use the Food Waste Tracker on your POS.

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Menu Design
Restaurant Menu Design

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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Free Restaurant Metrics Calculator

Use this free calculator to calculate the key restaurant metrics needed to understand the health and success of your business.

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xtraCHEF Recipe Costing

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.

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Four types of menu performers and how to tackle them

Menu Item Tagging

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.

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Item-Based Rewards

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.

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Offers Dashboard

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.

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Menu Manager

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.

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Make some changes to your menu

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Popular items with Toast Online Ordering Pro

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.

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Toast Mobile Payments & Digital Menus

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.

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Menu Availability

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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Download the Toast Now app

Download the Toast Now app on the Apple App Store

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Download the Toast Now app on the Google Play Store

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The Toast Now App is optimized to help you run your restaurant from the palm of your hand
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