topic Re: Base Price adjustment in price for in house vs third party. in Restaurant Operations

Base Price adjustment in price for in house vs third party.

ashokr — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:21:58 GMT

Hi,

we price our items for all 3rd party deliveries at ~15% higher than inhouse to offset the huge cost of commissions to them. Its a flat increase across for all 3rd party menus.

When we set this up, the on-boarding guy did that price adjustment via some bulk method, but I see the prices are fixed. Not a % from base price. (Unless that has improved over time and I didn't pay attention)

What I need is a base_price for each item, and a % increase for 3PD pricing. This allows when i change the base price the 3PD price also will increase accordingly instead of me having to mess with them manually. (Want the system and computer to do the job).

Any thoughts on this from others?

Re: Base Price adjustment in price for in house vs third party.

www — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:47:00 GMT

Which 3PD platforms are you using?

A new feature was added last year for DoorDash and UberEats. You can apply a percent or dollar mount increase on your entire menu like this:

https://central.toasttab.com/s/article/Getting-Started-DoorDash-Integration#price_increases

https://central.toasttab.com/s/article/Getting-Started-Uber-Eats-Integration#price_increases

However, if you also use GrubHub (and others), then the on-boarding agent most likely created a separate 3PD menu and then use Menu-based Pricing to set the price.

Re: Base Price adjustment in price for in house vs third party.

ashokr — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:00:33 GMT

Thanks you. Yes I’m aware of this, we also use grubhub unfortunately.. The separate menu is the most flexible for us. Since the increase isn’t across the board. Some items are price sensitive and we don’t want to increase that price. Legally I can’t sell the same product to different parties at different prices.

if Toast can permit a per item delta in menu specific price that would be ultimate

Re: Base Price adjustment in price for in house vs third party.

Sdaniel — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:16:44 GMT

Hi! Are you using menu-specific pricing? We don’t use the DoorDash menu price increase tool, instead, we go with a menu-specific strategy for our 3PO menu. We price beverages $0.50 higher and entrées $1.00 higher than our in-house menu. It does take a bit of manual work upfront and whenever we make price updates, but the price editor tool makes it pretty manageable.

One important thing to keep in mind with this strategy: if you have items on your in-house menu that also appear on your 3PO menu, it's best to make sure they share the same GUID. Having duplicate items with different GUIDs can make things tricky to manage down the line. That way, when you need to update prices later on, you’re only editing a single item instead of multiple duplicates.

Configure Menu Pricing Strategy in the Menu Builder

Use the Price Editor Tool

Re: Base Price adjustment in price for in house vs third party.

ashokr — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 03:28:18 GMT

That is correct, the base items and guids are the same across the board. They aren't two items with the same name and different guids if that's what you mean. It would be more manageable if we had a BASE_PRICE, and for the Menu Specific price, we can have an increase instead of a global one. In the price editor, it asks for an absolute price, which is too manual always to check if the BASE and the 3PD are greater than BASE. If you forget to increase the 3PD price manually, it would be less than the in-house price.

I would like the computer to do the work 🙂 Less error prone.