A recipe is a group of items that are combined to be sold as a single item in the Point of Sale. While there is only one kind of Recipe you can create, the same recipe can behave differently when attached to different inventory items and assigned different behaviors, e.g. the recipe for a club sandwich used in the restaurant and produced when ordered can also be used as a Production recipe for a grab-n-go option. For more information on Recipe behavior, see the section on the Create Kit/Recipe tab.
You can create different types of Recipes (e.g. Apps, Grab-n-Go, Batch, Buffet, etc.) by selecting Recipe Types under Common Setup. This can be useful in organizing your Recipes.
1. To create a new Recipe, navigate to Recipes and click Create New Recipe.
2. Give your new recipe a description, use the dropdown menu to select the appropriate recipe type, then click “Add Ingredient Items”.
3. From the Item Lookup screen, you can sort through and search for items in the same ways that are available on the Inventory Items screen. Once you have selected one or more items, click select and those items will be populated on the Recipe Editor screen.
6. Additionally, a calculation at the bottom of the Editor can help you decide on a retail price through cost percentage if you are unsure of the Retail price of the Recipe. The cost percentage keeps the same percentage across all recipes.
7.On the Yield / Used By tab, you can link the Recipe directly to a POS item, and when that POS item is sold it will deduct that recipe’s ingredients from your inventory. This step is used in 1-way integrations. Skip to Step 9 if the item you are connecting the recipe to will be managed in Yellow Dog Inventory instead of in the POS. From this screen, you can fill in any Yields (particularly important when creating batch recipes, e.g. sauces, soups, etc.).
8. To attach the item to its POS item, click on the “Linked to POS Items” space and check all items you wish to attach to recipes.
