Associating Food & Drink with Stock

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Simple Items

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Once you have an item, you should add at least one variety to it. When you add or edit a varietyand you will see thisa window:prompt to create a new item.

As a shortcut, to create a new stock item with the same name as the menu item, enter the name as a single quote ( ' ).

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We are prompted to create a new item with the same name:

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For this simple example we can just accept all of the variety,default options for the new stock item:

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Because selling one packet of crisps should exactly use one packet of crisps from stock, we will leave the Quantity column as 1, and this example is complete.

Complex Items

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Associating StockStarting with Food Products & Meals

Once you have stock items set up, you can associate stock with food items so that sales of food will affect your stock levels. To do this, use the 'Foodpint Menumenu Editor'item, optionenter Carlsberg in the 'Tools'Stock menu.Item Thecolumn editorand looksaccept creating a new stock item:

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We will modify the Units section to look like this:

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UsingHere the relationship between units is expressed; 1 keg contains 88 pints. The two columns at the start tell Vantage how to track and display the units. The first column with the filter icon is the unit that should be used for tracking stock levels - in this case pints have been chosen. The second column is the unit preferred for display purposes, in this case keg has been chosen. Click OK to save this item.

The row for the pint menu item is now correct. To set up the association for the half pint item, start typing 'Carlsberg' into the column next to the half pint item. After a few letters, Vantage will suggest the item we just created:

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Accept the suggeston. The half pint menu item is now linked to the same stock item as the pint, however the quantity is not yet correct. Change the quantity to 0.5 to show that this menu item should use 0.5 of the stock item, measured in pints. The two rows should end looking like this:

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Manually Editing Multiple Ingredients

If you have menu items that require many ingredients in different amounts, you can manually adjust the stock ingredients of any menu item.

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Selectselect a food item in the tree on the left, and click the 'Edit' button above. You will see the product (or meal) properties window, which looks like this:

We are only interested in the 'Ingredients' tab at the top. Switch to it, click the 'Add' button, then choose 'Stock Item'

You will then see this window:

Click the button to choose the stock item to associate with the food item. In the example, 'Normal Pizza Base' was selected. Enter a quantity of the selected stock item to be consumed for every food item sold. The quantity should be in the units you set up when you created the stock item. For example, if we were associating stock with a pepperoni pizza topping, the topping stock item was set in 'kg' units, and you wanted 100g to be used each time the food item is sold, enter '0.1'.

Associating Stock with Food Options

So far we have associated stock with a food product or meal. This means that every time that product or meal is sold, stock will always be consumed.

In many cases, the stock consumed should depend on the options that the customer chose. In these cases, we must associate the stock item with the food options. Most of the process is the same, except started in a different way.

To associate stock with an option in one of the shared options lists, such as pizza toppings, click the list in the bottom left, choose the appropriate option on the right side, and click the edit button above the options. That will look like this:

To associate stock with an option in one of the products, select the product, choose the desired option list, select the option, and click the 'Edit' button above the options. That will look like this:

In that example, it has been set up so that choosing 'Normal Dough' on the 'Wild Boar & More' pizza will consume 1 'Normal Pizza Base'.