Working with menu items

This section provides information about working with menu items in the menu manager.

Editing a menu item's price

Follow the procedure below to edit a menu item's price.

To edit a menu item's price

  1. Access Toast Web.

  2. Choose Menus > Menu manager to open the Menu manager page.

  3. From the Show section, choose Items.

  4. Use the search field or the filtering controls to refine the list of menu items.

  5. Make your price edits:

    • To edit a menu item with a base price, enter the new price in the Price column.

    • To edit a menu item with a size, menu-specific, or location-specific price, expand its row and enter the new prices in the Price column.

      Note

      The menu manager only allows you to edit size prices that are already defined on a menu item's details page. If you need to add a price for another size, you must add the size's price on the details page first, before it is visible and available for editing on the Menu manager page. The same is true for menu-specific and location-specific prices. If you need to add a price for another menu or location, you must add the price on the details page first. For more information on adding size prices, see Configuring size pricing on menu groups and menu items. For more information on adding menu-specific prices, see Menu-specific price. For more information on adding location-specific prices, see Enabling and setting location-specific prices.

      Note

      If a menu item is versioned, all of its versions that use location-specific pricing use the same location-specific prices. In this situation, the versioned menu item appears on multiple rows on the Items view, one row per version, and the location-specific prices associated with the versions are identical. If you edit the location-specific prices for one version, they are edited for all versions. For more information, see Location-specific prices and versions.

  6. Continue reading the Publishing menu manager changes section to understand how to make your menu changes available to restaurant employees and guests.

    Important

    The menu manager offers additional workflows for saving and publishing your pricing edits that are different from other configuration pages in Toast Web, including the ability to create a change set that saves and publishes your changes at a later date and time. In the menu manager, you either select Schedule to create a change set or Save to save your changes immediately but you don't do both. If you select Save, your changes will be saved immediately and you will not be able to create a change set. Do not select Save in the menu manager until you fully understand the publishing workflows described in Publishing menu manager changes.

Editing a menu item's visibility

Follow the procedure below to edit a menu item's visibility.

Note

This procedure lets you make visibility updates to individual menu items. Using the bulk editing feature, you can make the same visibility edits to multiple menu items at one time. For more information, see Making bulk edits.

To edit a menu item's visibility

  1. Access Toast Web.

  2. Choose Menus > Menu manager to open the Menu manager page.

  3. From the Show section, choose Items.

  4. Use the search field or the filtering controls to refine the list of menu items.

  5. Select a menu item's Visibility column and enable or disable the visibility settings as needed. Repeat this step with any other menu items that require visibility updates.

  6. Continue reading the Publishing menu manager changes section to understand how to make your menu changes available to restaurant employees and guests.

    Important

    The menu manager offers additional workflows for saving and publishing your pricing edits that are different from other configuration pages in Toast Web, including the ability to create a change set that saves and publishes your changes at a later date and time. In the menu manager, you either select Schedule to create a change set or Save to save your changes immediately but you don't do both. If you select Save, your changes will be saved immediately and you will not be able to create a change set. Do not select Save in the menu manager until you fully understand the publishing workflows described in Publishing menu manager changes.

Viewing read-only menu item information

The Items view of the menu manager provides additional read-only information about menu items. For example, the Found in column displays information about where a menu item appears in the menu hierarchy. For more information, see Items and modifiers view.