Menu and pricing

Approve new menu items, set per-channel prices against real recipe costs, and push the menu to your outlets and POS.

Menu & pricing is the bridge between the kitchen’s recipes and what you actually sell. Every menu item is backed by a recipe, so you always see the true cost per unit next to the selling price — and the food cost % that results. The chef proposes; a pricing-capable role approves, prices, and pushes to POS.

New to the terms here (recipe, food cost, channel)? See the Glossary.

Who does what

• The chef (kitchen sign-in) builds recipes and sees Menu & pricing read-only — the costs, statuses, and prices, but no buttons to change them.
• Owners and managers approve items, set prices and GST, choose outlets, and push to POS. Every change to the menu needs one of these roles.

A count badge on the Menu & pricing nav entry shows how many items are waiting for approval.

Where to find it

In the console sidebar, under the Admin group: Menu & pricing and Modifiers. The same two pages appear in the kitchen console’s Admin group for the chef’s read-only view.

The menu list

The page opens with four tiles — Pending approval, Avg food cost, Live on POS, and Pending sync — then the menu table. For each item you see:

• Status — Pending, Approved, Live, or Rejected. Finished recipes land here automatically as Pending; there’s nothing to create by hand.
• Cost / ea — the recipe cost per unit, and Raw cost — the true raw-ingredient cost underneath it.
• FC % — food cost as a share of the dine-in price, colour-coded: green up to 30%, amber up to 40%, red beyond.
• Channels — the price on each sales channel (dine-in, delivery platforms), and how many outlets the item is Live at.

A Recipe changed badge appears when a recipe was edited after pricing — a nudge to re-check the item’s cost before trusting the margin.

Use the status tabs and the search box to narrow the list.

Approve and price an item

Tap a row to open the item drawer. It has three tabs — Recipe & costing (the full cost breakdown), Pricing & channels (per-channel prices, GST, category, description), and Outlets (which outlets sell it, per channel).

The buttons at the bottom follow the item’s status:

1. Pending — review the costing, then Approve, or Send back to the chef with a short reason. A sent-back item returns to the chef to revise and re-submit.
2. Approved — set the prices on the Pricing & channels tab (an item needs at least a dine-in price), pick its outlets, then tap Mark live.
3. Live — tap Push to POS to sync this item, or use Push all to POS at the top of the page to sync every live item at once.

Modifiers

Modifiers are the choices and add-ons a customer picks at the till — milk options, extra shots, toppings. They’re built as groups of options and linked to menu items.

1. Open Admin → Modifiers and tap New group.
2. Name the group (e.g. Milk choice), set the minimum and maximum number of selections, and whether the group is Required.
3. Open the group and use Add option to add each choice, with a price add-on where one applies (e.g. Oat milk +₹40).
4. In the same drawer, link the menu items that carry this group — search for an item to attach it, or remove a link with one tap.

Chefs see modifiers read-only, like the rest of the menu; creating and editing groups needs an owner or manager.