Remember to build this Product in Optimum Control just as you would in your kitchen. This ensures that all the Ingredients are accounted for.
To Create a New Product Recipe:
1. Click
Products
(Main Menu Toolbar).
2. Choose New.
NOTE: By default, the window is in NEW mode until you select an existing Product from the list on the left.
Field |
Details |
Description |
The name of the Menu
Product (Menu
recipe) you are creating. This name should be
different than any other names of Items |
Sales Group |
Select the Sales Group that this Product belongs to. See Adding Sales Groups. |
3. Barcode (Optional) |
If you use barcodes for your products, enter in the barcode number. This would be used if making barcoded sales labels. |
POS ID# (Optional) |
Most all cash registers and POS systems use POS ID Numbers (PLU) numbers or menu ID numbers to identify menu products. In some till tapes or cash register reports only the PLU number is listed. Enter the number that corresponds to the POS or Cash register. If you do not know the number, print out the sales file generated by the POS or polling software. NOTE: If you are importing from a POS System, the POS ID numbers will be added automatically. |
POS Description (Optional) This field is a reference field for Optimum Control to identify if the POS System has changed its menu item. E.G. In Optimum Control, you enter the Description as Meatloaf Dinner. On the POS System, the name is MTLOAF DNR. Enter the POS Description as MTLOAF DNR and Optimum Control will let you know if that button is ever changed. |
Enter the POS description
exactly as it is in the POS system. |
Actual Product cost |
The cost of the Menu product. Note: This will read 0.00 unless the ingredients are added to the Product. |
Selling Price |
Enter in the selling price. If
you have not yet set a selling price, create the Product, enter a
selling price in the Selling Price field OR type in the desired Cost
Percentage or Gross Margin and Optimum Control will calculate the selling
price for you. |
Gross Margin |
= Selling Price - Total Cost |
Cost Percentage |
If you have chosen to set your
food cost at a desired cost percentage, enter in the percentage and the
program will calculate a selling price based on that percentage.
|
Gross Profit % (GP%) |
Displays the gross profit of the
product based on the Cost Percentage. You can enter a desired Gross profit
and the selling price will be calculated. |
Tax Group |
Add a tax group if a sales tax is applied to this product. This will apply the tax amount to the adjusted case cost |
Example: A manager changed Apple Pie to Meatloaf Dinner on the POS, when importing your Sales Mix, Optimum Control will compare the POS description to the sales file and make sure the description is the same. If it is not, you will receive the following message unlinked product and/or mismatched POS descriptions have been detected.
For more information on Creating a New Product Recipe, watch this short video titled Creating Product Recipes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlmU3qrKha4