Allow Inventory Count At The Menu Category Level!

[ToastyToast]

I operate a small artisan pizzeria. I would LOVE to be able to put a count on Pizza as a Menu Category before each service. We do sourdough pizza and only have a specific # of doughs for each service. We are constantly having to guess / estimate how many more orders we can take towards the ends of the night based on eye-balling dough trays. If we could put a count on the whole menu category it would be SO helpful! 

p.s. I know I could make all my pizzas 1 item and have the topping combos be modifier groups - but it looks horrible on the guest facing side and it's much harder to understand which items are performing best in that format. 

[cheskoxd]

Hey, 

What about a modifier group called "Dough", that will be a required modifier, it will have no price, but as you know, modifiers are items, so we can assign a quantity to the modifier and then make it required, so once there's no more Dough, the "Pizza" item will be automatically set to Out of stock, since the required modifier is Out of stock. So before each service you can set the quantity of Dough and it will update on all the items that currently have the Dough mod as required

And you can use the same modifier group as a Shallow copy with multiple pizzas, so all of them will share the same Dough.

If a required modifier group  has one option, and the option is out of stock, the whole Item where the modifier group was assigned will be Out of Stock

Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions 🙂

[ToastyToast]

That sounds like an interesting work around. Would  servers / guests ordering online be forced to select that modifier every time they order a pizza? 

[cheskoxd]

Yes, they will be forced, or we can also set it to be Default Modifier, so it will be automatically selected 

[ToastyToast]

Gotcha. And it would still be visible on every ticket. While that might technically work, it's too disruptive to workflow to be practical. Similar to having 1 item called pizza, with a count on it, but then having all specialty pizzas available as 'topping combos' or something. It technically would work, but it's bad for customer and staff UI. Far simpler from UI standpoint would be the suggestions of my post, allow us to put counts on the category. But I understand from an engineering pov that is probably a big ask. However, it would be useful, and not just for pizza.