If pictures and descriptions for each flavor directly on the ordering flow is most important to you, I recommend @rcmck 's solution of making the flavors the items and using size-based pricing on each flavor, at least for online ordering.
A few issues we've run into were people who want multiple flavors in one item, and easily managing a constantly rotating large selection of flavors. We also found a concise, easily scrollable menu was worth giving up directly accessible pictures and descriptions of the flavors, at least for us because our menu is large enough as it is.
If you're interested, I came up with something a little more advanced for our operation, but the flavor selection would be made as a Modifier. We've set up Hard Ice Cream as a no-price item, and created a Modifier Group for choosing the size. Each size has its own price, and has flavor selection options nested within.
The main reason for this the ability to apply rules for each size (1 scoop only allows 1 flavor selection, 2 scoops can have up to 2 selections, etc.).
You can see in the above example that each "Size" modifier (1 Scoop, 2 Scoops, 3 Scoops) has its own dedicated modifier group to allow the designated number of flavor selections.
Having to update so many Modifier Groups can get messy when you have flavors constantly rotating, so we also set up each of these flavor selection Modifier Groups to pull its listing from a single Menu Group called "Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt" which is set up in its own Menu that is invisible to the POS. This is the setting you would want for the flavor selection groups:
This is what that invisible Menu looks like:
The Modifier Groups for 1-, 2-, and 3-scoop flavor selections ALL pull from the same "Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt" Menu Group, which lies within the "Available Tubs" Menu, which is invisible. Now, when we rotate in a new flavor, we just need to add it once as an Item to the above group, and it will be reflected across all flavor selection Modifier Groups. When we decommission a flavor for the season, we just add it to "Unavailable Tubs" and remove it from "Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt".
As far as reporting, this setup allows us to treat each "count" of a flavor Modifier in the Product Mix report as a "Scoop" of that flavor sold.
If pictures and descriptions for each flavor directly on the ordering flow is most important to you, I recommend @rcmck 's solution of making the flavors the items and using size-based pricing on each flavor, at least for online ordering.
A few issues we've run into were people who want multiple flavors in one item, and easily managing a constantly rotating large selection of flavors. We also found a concise, easily scrollable menu was worth giving up directly accessible pictures and descriptions of the flavors, at least for us because our menu is large enough as it is.
If you're interested, I came up with something a little more advanced for our operation, but the flavor selection would be made as a Modifier. We've set up Hard Ice Cream as a no-price item, and created a Modifier Group for choosing the size. Each size has its own price, and has flavor selection options nested within.
The main reason for this the ability to apply rules for each size (1 scoop only allows 1 flavor selection, 2 scoops can have up to 2 selections, etc.).
You can see in the above example that each "Size" modifier (1 Scoop, 2 Scoops, 3 Scoops) has its own dedicated modifier group to allow the designated number of flavor selections.
Having to update so many Modifier Groups can get messy when you have flavors constantly rotating, so we also set up each of these flavor selection Modifier Groups to pull its listing from a single Menu Group called "Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt" which is set up in its own Menu that is invisible to the POS. This is the setting you would want for the flavor selection groups:
This is what that invisible Menu looks like:
The Modifier Groups for 1-, 2-, and 3-scoop flavor selections ALL pull from the same "Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt" Menu Group, which lies within the "Available Tubs" Menu, which is invisible. Now, when we rotate in a new flavor, we just need to add it once as an Item to the above group, and it will be reflected across all flavor selection Modifier Groups. When we decommission a flavor for the season, we just add it to "Unavailable Tubs" and remove it from "Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt".
As far as reporting, this setup allows us to treat each "count" of a flavor Modifier in the Product Mix report as a "Scoop" of that flavor sold.
