Micros 3700 - menu transition - Lunch to dinner transition.

[nhb333]

We are going to open for lunch soon and our system is currently set up for dinner. Without all the details at this juncture is it possible for the menu options available on the work station to transition from lunch to dinner at a certain time? I don't want our servers to have to look at all the dinner options when doing lunch and lunch options when doing dinner.

Am I going to have to do a completely different screen and assign different login codes for each server? one login for lunch and one for dinner.

Thanks

 

[Moregelen]

You can setup two touchscreens and two SLU groups; one Lunch and one Dinner. And then on the Lunch screen put the Lunch SLU Group, and on the Dinner screen put the Dinner SLU group.

At this point you can either put buttons to manually flip between them and make the server do it (you could make a landing screen for servers with nothing but a Lunch and Dinner buttons which then takes them to the correct menu). Or you could set up a Lunch and Dinner time period and then install a SIM I wrote which will automatically change default touchscreen that it takes servers to. If you want to go the SIM route (no, you don't need any additional licensing), let me know and I'll be happy to help. I'm doing a store opening today (there for the 'just in case - oh shit moments') which basically means I will be sitting around do nothing for most of the day.

 

[pmegan]

Or if you have the same categories for lunch and dinner, (apps, entrees, side, etc...), you can use the same screens and just use levels to determine what items are available when, and at what price.

 

[Moregelen]

You can yes, but for the average user, that always seems to get messy fast. But pmegan is right, that works too.

 

[nhb333]

I would prefer to use menu levels as we use them for happy hour. I know how to use the auto menu lever for pricing but how whould I set up items to appear and dissapear at the appropriate time?

Do I set up a new menu item class?
Does it have anything to do with serving periods?

Thank you

 

[pmegan]

The setup usually uses the main level for availability so i'm going to assume that's how your system is configured.

You're going to have to check your menu level classes and change the links for some of your menu items. The idea is to set the menu level class for each menu item to the times you want it to be available; creating any classes you need but don't have. It's usually safe to check all the sublevels; they're most often used for pricing or in multi-unit systems that use the main level to define units. Look at your existing menu item classes and let me know if you have any without all sublevels checked.

For lunch, happy hour and dinner you'll need the following classes. The main levels you'll need to check are listed. I'm going to use main levels 1=lunch, 2=happy hour, 3=dinner for my example, change this as you need for your system. To find this just look at your auto-level setup screen and see what main level is assigned to each.

all levels 1/2/3
lunch 1
happy hour 2
dinner 3
lunch/dinner 1/3
lunch/happy hour 1/2
dinner/happy hour 2/3

Most systems will come with at least some of these classes, especially All Levels. You're menu items probably already have that assigned to them. If you already have the auto-levels set up, don't mess with them. Use the level classes to work with your auto-levels to enable/disable items for your dining periods.

Since you have time to test it, make some dummy menu items, one for each menu item class you're going to use. Assign each of the classes to one of these items, give them all the same SLU, and then go through your auto-levels to make sure the right items are showing up at the right times. Once you have it working right you can reassign the classes for existing items. Also, make sure you have at least Lunch and Dinner buttons available to temporarily change the active menu level. That just makes it easier when you have a lunch guest who wants the meal he had last week at dinner.