topic Same item Different Menu Price in Restaurant Operations

Same item Different Menu Price

MSRBC — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:45:21 GMT

Hi Group,

I have seen a few questions similar to this but they are from a while back with no answers, so lets see if we have anything new.

For this example - We have Sandwiches that we sell for $XYZ - these sandwiches are also sold as 1/2 for half the price - they are also part of a combo deal we do at $XYY price. The problem is that I cannot get the two 1/2 sandwiches to set in a different price. The half by itself is half price, and the combo half is sold as $0 as it is part of the combo. I can build them out separately, but then my FOH staff have to go into multiple different places to 86 an item if we are out. Ideally, we never run out but we all know how that goes. Any Suggestions? Thanks

Re: Same item Different Menu Price

MSRBC — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:55:50 GMT

For some hopeful clarification the menus are built as:

All Day menu > Sandwiches > Whole Sandwich

All Day Menu > Sandwiches > 1/2 Sandwich

All Day Menu > Combo > Combo pick 2 > "multiple options" (choose 2)

Re: Same item Different Menu Price

au79teahouse — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:27:05 GMT

There are couple ways to achieve the goal.

1) Build out your menu items by sizes and your sandwiches items will be the modifier items.

All Day Menu > Size Option (Menu Item) > Sandwich Options (Modifier Groups) > Sandwich Items (Modifier items)

2) Create "required" default modifier items for the sandwiches.

ex:
All Day Menu > B.M.T Sandwich (Menu Item) > Stock (Required Mod Group) > B.M.T Sandwich Stock(Modifier item)

In the situation when you need to 86 BMT Sandwich, turn off "B.M.T. Sandwich Stock". You won't be able to order menu items that have "B.M.T. Sandwich Stock" as their required default modifier. This works great for Kiosk and online ordering because a menu item will be marked out-of-stock automatically when required modifiers are not available. However, it would be a little bit counterintuitive on the pos terminal because the menu item will still be shown "available" But you still can't ring out the menu item because the required mod is not available.

3) Create an auto-applied "check level" combo discount.

Re: Same item Different Menu Price

rcmck — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:52:00 GMT

You could get it down to one item to 86 if you make the half sandwich a single menu item, and use a modifier group to choose the sandwich, then create the half sandwich choices from existing items, and reference the whole sandwich item, overide the price to whatever the half sandwich price is. For the combos, since the charge is 0.00 for the sandwich, you could create a modifier group for the sandwich choice set to priced by group for $0, but rather than creating modifiers just choose use existing menu group and select your main sandwich group.

More on creating modifiers from existing menu items https://central.toasttab.com/s/article/Creating-Modifiers-from-Items

Re: Same item Different Menu Price

ashokr — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:47:12 GMT

Coud you maybe arrange options under the same item? each option has a price delta, and when you 86 that item all dependencies take the same effect?

Re: Same item Different Menu Price

ashokr — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:18:12 GMT

This is precicely what I was suggesting. Nicey done with good illustration!!! Kudos!