Happy Hour Pricing Auto Levels Micros 3700

[Andy16H]

We have a different Happy Hour every day. I've created a period for each day, my menu items are in the following Classes:
Beer
Cocktails
Daiquiris
Food
The default menu level and sub level are both 1.
Example of happy hour
Monday $2 Domestic Beer and $4 Daiquiris
Tuesday $4 Wells and 2 for 1 Skinnys
Wednesday $4 Octanes

Skinnys are a daiquiri and so are Octanes

Price level 2 is set to $4 on all Daquiris
Price level 3 is set to $3 on Skinnys
Price level 4 is set to $4 on Octanes
Price level 5 is set to $4 on just my well Cocktails
Price level 6 is set to $2 on just 4 beers

I then went into menu levels and setup the different auto changes and it worked but the problem is that if we ring up a beer during happy hour on Monday that is not one of the 4 domestic beers then it rings it up as $0.00. If I ring up one of the domestics it shows $2 which is correct.

I'm assuming I could copy price 1 to price 7 on all beers except the 4 that I run the special on and could apply this same logic to all other menu items. I'm guessing their is a better way to handle this.

Also Skinnys are regular priced at $6 on 2 for 1 night we price them at $3 and ring 2 of them up. Is there a better way to do this?

Micros Res3700 ver. 5.1

 

[Wildbar]

You are correct that you will need to put prices in for all items for levels 1 to 10, even ones that dont go on special or discount. Its a lot of work but this works best. Your other option is to to put items that do not change price into a menu class that only allows menu price #1 (dont check use prices 2 through 10) This though will limit what you can do with the menu items.

 

[Andy16H]

Thank you for your response.

I went and copied the sub level 1 price down to sub level 2-10 on every menu item. I then went back and adjusted the sub pricing to fit my specials.
Daquiri's have $4 on Price level 2 and $6 on Price levels 1,3-10. There are 2 Daquiris that also have different pricing on levels 3 & 4. Octanes have $4 on price level 3 and Skinny's have $3 on price level 4.
Domestic Beers have $2 on price level 5 and $4 on price level 1-4,6-10
Wells have $4 on price level 6 and $5 on price level 1-5, 7-10.

Auto Menu Levels
Monday Beer Special--Sub Menu Level = 5
Monday Octane Special--Sub Menu Level = 3
Tuesday Daiquiri Special--Sub Menu Level = 2
Tuesday Well Special--Sub Menu Level = 6
Wednesday Beer Special--Sub Menu Level = 5
Wednesday 2 for 1 Skinny--Sub Menu Level = 4
Thursday Beer Special--Sub Menu Level = 5
Friday Daiquiri Special--Sub Menu Level = 2

Menu Levels
Active Menu Levels
All Levels = Main 1-10 and Sub 1-10, Pop up to Main Level = 1, Pop up to Sub Level =
Main Level = Main 1 and Sub 1-10, Pop up to Main Level = 1, Pop up to Sub Level = 1
HH Level = Main 2 and Sub 1-10, Pop up to Main Level = , Pop up to Sub Level =
Liquor Items = Main 1 and Sub 1-10, Pop up to Main Level = 1, Pop up to Sub Level = 1
Bump Liquor Items = Main 1-4 and Sub 1-10, Pop up to Main Level = 1, Pop up to Sub Level = 1
Pizza = Main 1 and Sub 1-10, Pop up to Main Level = 1, Pop up to Sub Level =
Daiquiris = Main 1 and Sub 1-10, Pop up to Main Level = 1, Pop up to Sub Level = 1
Beer = Main 1 and Sub 1-10, Pop up to Main Level = 1, Pop up to Sub Level = 1
Liquor = Main 1 and Sub 1-10, Pop up to Main Level = 1, Pop up to Sub Level = 1

Not sure what these Menu Levels are, I've never messed with them.

My current problem I believe comes from days that have 2 different Sub Levels active. It is only pulling the price from the Sub Level that is first in the Auto Menu Levels. The easy work around would be to adjust how I have my sub pricing structured. I currently use a sub for a drink type, I could switch and use a sub for each happy hour day. This makes it a little more difficult to change in the future.

Is there another work around like only making the necessary sub levels active for each group of items?
Daiquiris = Sub 1-4
Beer = Sub 1, 5
Liquor = Sub 1, 6

Thank you for your input.

 

[Wildbar]

How i have our places set up is;
Level Price
1 Regular
2 Happy Hour
3 Double
4 Monday Special
5 Tuesday Special
6 Wednesday Special
7 Thursday Special
8 Friday Special
9 Saturday Special
10 Sunday Special

Set your pricing for everything as needed. If daquiris and pizza are on special Thursdays you would change both level 7 pricing changed.
And your right...the system cant auto call 2 menu levels at the same time. The last one called would be the one that would show up. You can work around this by using keys to change menu levels (which we do for doubles) Hope this helps.

 

[Andy16H]

Thank you.

I've got it setup and working.
1 Regular
2 Monday Special
3 Tuesday Special
4 Wednesday Special
5 Thursday Special
6 Friday Special

On the changing Menu Levels, I think I kind of understand this but to clarify.
1. You could activate Main Menu Level 2 and use a price from Sub Level 4 while the Auto Levels has the restaurant set to Main Level 1 and sub Level 2?
2. Assuming the above is accurate then could you set 2 different Auto Levels to work at the same time? example Main 1-Sub 2 and Main 2-Sub 3

The above specials are pretty stable worst case we don't run them and they are pretty easy to turn off. Occasionally we run $10 single topping pizzas. What would be an effective way of implementing this. I could go in and change the sub level to match the sub level for that particular day, but this involves me needing to remember to change it back.

 

[kknoy]

Andy for the single topping pizza why not just set that as an item and the one topping they pick is a modifier and just make that item available certain days and remove it from the screen on the other days.