Learn how PurchasePlus helps your Organization to manage Recipes, with our Menus feature.
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Introduction
A Menu is a collection of Recipes. Menus are typically used for managing the procurement and cost of the Ingredients in your real-world dishes (i.e. Recipes) that your customers order in your restaurant, cafe or bar.
Menu Permissions
A user’s ability to Manage Menus (i.e. create, update and delete) is controlled by the Permission: ‘Manage Recipes.’ Please contact a PurchasePlus administrator at your organization if you wish to have this permission enabled for your user profile.
Viewing and Managing Your Menus
You can find the list of Menus that are available to your Organization in the Side Navigation bar by clicking [Recipes] → [Menus]. Here you will find all of your Menus (and a count of the Recipes contained therein) in a table view:
You can customize the table using the ‘Manage Columns’ button, or dragging the column width borders to suit your preference.
You can Delete a Menu using the More menu on the right hand side of the table:
Clicking on the Name of a Menu in the table will take you to the Menu Recipes view, where you can see a table view of the Recipes that have been added to this Menu. You can Add and Remove Recipes from this view, and edit the Settings of the Menu in the Settings tab.
Creating a New Menu
You can create a Menu by clicking [Menus] → [Create New Menu].
You will first be prompted to give your Menu a name, and you will be able to add Recipes to the Menu on the resulting page.
We recommend being as detailed as possible with the Menu name, for example, ‘Ground Floor Restaurant Winter 2024 Menu’.
Costing a Menu
You can understand important financial details about your Menu in the Table view of the Menu Recipes.
- Yield: The number of servings (‘units’) that are produced by the Recipe.
- Cost Price: The cost price per unit of the Recipe, based on the Best Price from your Suppliers on each Ingredient, if Applicable.
- Sale Price: The price that a unit is sold for.
- Cost %: The percentage of the Cost Price of the Recipe, relative to the Sale Price.
This is Part 2 of our Introduction to Recipes series.
How do I start using the Recipes Module?
If your Organization would like to begin using the PurchasePlus Recipes module, please contact your Account Manager or our friendly Customer Success Team for assistance with enabling the module, and to organize training for your users (if required).
Note for Purchasers using Legacy PurchasePlus
The Recipes module in New PurchasePlus has been redesigned and reengineered, and it is materially different to the Legacy PurchasePlus Recipes Module. Purchasers migrating from our Legacy PurchasePlus platform to our New PurchasePlus platform will need additional migration support to begin using Recipes, as Recipe, Menu and Ingredient data in our legacy PurchasePlus platform is not automatically available in our New PurchasePlus platform.