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Assigning Modifier Courses to Menu Items

When building your Menu, you can group similar menu items in a course to help make resident meal ordering more efficient. A meal course can have a variety of menu items that might require different modifying items. For example, toppings for sandwiches, dressing for salads, toppings for desserts, or no modifier at all. You can use the modifier pin icons in the menu editing screen to assign the appropriate modifier course to a menu item, or assign No Modifier. When a modifier course is assigned to a menu item, it means the modifier course opens automatically in the meal ordering screen when the menu item is selected.

Note

Build your courses and sub courses before assigning your modifiers to menu items. See Creating and Managing Meal Sub Courses for more information. 

  1. Menus > Menu Builder > Display Menu.

  2. Select the week, day, and meal that has the menu item to add or edit.

  3. Select the meal course.

  • Primary Course - Click the primary course to enter menu items into the regular menu. In this example, you click All Day Breakfast.

  • Regular Menu - Add menu items using the search box, magnifying glass, or create new option. In this example, Fruit and Cottage Cheese Plate, and so on.

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  • Modifier Sub Course - Click the modifier sub course to enter in menu items into the regular menu. In this example, click on Egg Mods and add Salsa.

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  • Modifier Pin - Click the primary course (All Day Breakfast), then click on the modifier pin next to the menu item in the regular menu to set the modifier course or no modifier. 

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  • Click Legend for a definition of all the icons.

  • The modifier pin icon only appears in the Regular Menu panel of the menu entry screen if the current course or sub-course contains one or more Modifier Sub Course(s).

  • If the course has a modifier sub-course set up, all menu items in the course have a gray pin icon. 

    • If the pin icon is gray, it means that when selecting the menu item in the ordering screen, the first modifier course in the course list opens. In the example above: If you select Eggs-Over Easy in the meal ordering screen, the Egg Mods sub-course opens. 

    • If the pin is red, it means you defined a modifier course for the menu item. In the example above: modifier course Syrups was pinned to menu item Pancakes. This means when Pancakes is selected in the meal ordering screen, Syrups sub-course opens automatically. 

    • If no modifier course is required, select No Modifier and a red circle icon appears. In the example above, Fruit and Cottage Cheese Plate does not need a modifier. When you select this item in the meal ordering screen, no sub-course opens automatically.