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[Micros888]

I am new with micros and am trying to program the menu ...

How to I add two required condiments to a menu item .

As when they order burger , the next screen ask for temp and they I need to add another screen that would ask for a choice of side.

(using the latest micros 3700)

thx in advance

 

[pmegan]

Are there any required condiments set up already? Unless you're starting with a completely empty database you should have at least the meat temp condiments set up. This will be a good starting point. Micros made the condiment setup so flexible and open-ended that they're really confusing and intimidating when you're getting started.

There are 3 parts to the condiments:
Groups - this is what ties everything together.
Memberships - determines what group(s) individual condiment belong to.
Selections - determines what condiments are allowed or required for each menu item.

Take a look at the setup for some of your existing food items. They should have something like "food prep" assigned in the Allowed Condiment box. Now find that entry in the Condiment Selections. You'll see a Group asigned to it, probably also name "food prep" or something similar. Write down the group number. You'll need this when setting up your required condiments; it's possible to add a required condiment to an item that isn't allowed as a prep.

I'm going to assume that you already have a meat temp prep, so here's how to set up a basic "burger sides" group:
[ul]
[li]Go to the Condiment Groups tab in the Condiments setup screen.[/li]
[li]Find an empty line below the Meat Temp group, enter Burger Sides as the name and select an appropriate Touchscreen style. This is the screen that will be used to display the items. Usually it's the same as the food SLU, unless you have a dedicated Condiment SLU screen.[/li]
[li]Go to the Condiment Membership tab and find or create a blank line.[/li]
[li]Enter "burger sides" as the name and check off the "Burger Sides" group you just made and the food prep group you found earlier.[/li]
[li]Go to the Condiment Selection tab and find or create a blank line using the upper blue plus sign.[/li]
[li]Enter "burger sides" as the name.[/li]
[li]Click the lower blue plus sign and select the Burger Sides group from the dropdown list.[/li]
[li]Find or create another blank line and name it "burger temp/sides.[/li]
[li]Click the lower blue plus sign and select the Meat Temp group from the dropdown list.[/li]
[li]Click the lower blue plus sign again and select the Burger Sides group from the dropdown list. This sets up the 2nd required condiment[/li]

Your condiments are now set up, time to assign them to menu items.

[li]Go to the Menu Item setup screen and add the burger sides items as condiments.[/li]
[li]On the Groups tab, select "burger sides" as the Condiment Membership for each side item.[/li]
[li]Go to the menu items that will require the sides. For each one, select the general "food prep" as the Allowed Condiments. This will make sure you're not limiting preps to food temp and sides.[/li]
[li]If you're item requires just a side prompt, like a chicken sandwich, select "burger sides" as the Required Condiment. If it needs both temp and sides prompts, select "burger temp/sides" as the Required Condiment.[/li]
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That should be it. One thing to keep in mind is that the order of the required condiment prompts is controlled by the Condiment Group numbers, not how you add them in the Condiment Selection. That's why I said to make sure the Sides group has a higher number than the Meat Temp group. If your sides were group #1 and your temps #2 you'd be prompted for sides then temps, regardless of the order in which you added them to the Selection.

That's longer than I had expected, but like I said, condiment setup is over-complicated and there are a lot of little steps. Hope that helps,

Pat

 

[Micros888]

Thx will try as suggested, as have to go online soon how do i put a option that the typewitter comes on and the staff can just write the options as will take some time to load all the options, i am an aloha expert and switching over to micros , had some one else data on the micros and kind of removed some of the stuff that i could have just coppied...many thx in advance

 

[Micros888]

thx n it worked, how do i asign the typewritter as an option to a menu item as still learning all the required options/condemints, i must have changed the setting by playing around thx in advance