@MattSole I thought that Copied Menus didnt work that way with linked changes and such, hence why its a copy? -- for example i took "menu" and made a copy called "menu2" --- I added an existing item to "menu"/appetizers group..... the item did no...
@Oddfellow one possible workaround might be to create a modifier called 'contest' and make it a default (but not visible) modifier on each of the items that you want to count. Then run a product mix report by modifier to see how many times it was ...