Make the Most of Your Menu
Menu engineering 101

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


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


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.
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.


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.
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.


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.
Make some changes to your menu

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.
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.


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

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