topic Default Modifier Pricing in Restaurant Operations

Default Modifier Pricing

maddoxpollock44 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:59:47 GMT

Hey all!

Looking for a quick answer on this. I am trying to set default modifiers for food items by overriding the default modifier section for each modifier group. Each modifier has different pricing (i.e bacon costs X, turkey costs Y, and crab dip costs Z) all in the same modifier group. How do I make it so that default modifiers in this group do not have a cost?

example: Turkey Jack Sandwich has Turkey, Pepperjack, Egg, and Ranch by default. The base price is $7 and I don't want the default modifiers to increase this price but by making them default, its adding nearly $5 on top of the $7.

SOS! Thank you!

Re: Default Modifier Pricing

Sdaniel — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:21:03 GMT

Hey @maddoxpollock44!

I want to start off by welcoming you to the Toast Community!

When you are building the default modifiers, are you using existing modifiers that have a price attached to it? We typically don' use default modifiers, but I have explored the settings recently when building entree side default modifiers.

My suggestion for your Turkey Sandwich is to create a modifier group and manually create modifiers that have a $0 price. This will then ensure that the base price is only $7. The other option would be to adjust the pricing to "No Charge" if you're using existing modifiers that have a price associated with it.

No charge: The modifiers in the modifier group are free of charge.
All modifiers share the same price: Adds the Modifier Group Pricing section to the page, where you can specify a group-level price for the modifiers.
Each modifier has a unique price: Adds the Price column to the Modifiers grid, where you can specify a constant, fixed price for each modifier in the group. This price becomes the base price of the modifier's underlying item reference.

Here is an article with full details of modifier pricing: Pricing modifiers - - Platform guide (toasttab.com)

I hope this helps! 🙂

Re: Default Modifier Pricing

rcmck — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:31:36 GMT

I think the closest you will get to that is substitution pricing, it is in limited release though, would probably need to request access to it. https://doc.toasttab.com/doc/platformguide/adminPricingModifierOptions.html#adminUsingSubstitutionPricingForDefaultModifierOptions there is another limited release feature under that called allow default modifiers to charge their modifier price, not sure if that is separate or part of substitution pricing

Re: Default Modifier Pricing

maddoxpollock44 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:08:23 GMT

I think you're right on this. I didn't realize it was a limited release! I spent hours looking for how to use substitution pricing and could never find it! Thank you

Re: Default Modifier Pricing

MMartin — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:20:04 GMT

Hi,

When we were using default modifiers, we had a group of modifiers at no charge that came on an item and then created another mod group for example in your case you could call it Sandwich Upgrades. In the upgrades group you can add mods with prices that can be added. In the default mods, you can add pre mods like No and On Side.

We changed back to regular mods with a limit to only add one extra mod. This way you can add prices to mods, and if someone wants more than one priced mod, you can also have a sandwich upgrades mod group. If you go this direction and have pre mods, make sure to use the multiply price section in pre mods so you don't charge for "NO" and "On side", and you can add EXTRA and multiply by 1 for charged items.