Your POS knows what it sold. Your recipes know what those dishes cost. This page connects the two.
Without it, sales and costs are two separate stories. With it, they are one number: food cost.
The idea
A POS item is a thing you sell. A recipe is a thing you make. They are usually the same dish under two different names — the till has one, the kitchen has another.
Link them once. From then on, every time that item sells, NexReps knows what it cost.
The link is yours to make. NexReps does not guess, because only you know that the till's name and the kitchen's name are the same dish.
Import from PDF
You already have your menu, printed. Import from PDF reads it — sections, items and prices — and shows you what it found before anything is created. Check the prices against the paper, then create.
A printed menu is one service: import the dinner menu as Dinner, the brunch menu as Brunch.
Services
Each section can belong to a service — Brunch, Lunch, Dinner — shown in small italics next to the section title. The filter at the top shows one service at a time.
The services are your venue's own, set in Venues. To change a section's service, open the section with its pencil.
Building it by hand
Add Section — Mains, Starters, Desserts. However your menu is organised.
Add item inside a section. Then two links:
POS item — what your till calls it.
Recipe — what your kitchen makes.
Choosing the POS item
The picker lists every item your POS has sold in the last 90 days, those sold in the last 30 days first. Under each name: when it last sold, how many in the last 30 and 90 days, its average price, and the menu line it is already linked to, if any.
That is how you tell two buttons with the same name apart. The one that sold 400 last month is the one on the menu.
Reading the counts
Each section says 12 items · 7 linked. Those two numbers should match. An item that is not linked is a hole in your food cost — it sold, it earned money, and NexReps has no idea what it cost.
What "linked" requires
Both sides. A POS item with no recipe costs nothing as far as NexReps knows. A recipe with no POS item never sells.
You will find items that genuinely have no recipe — a bottled beer, a can of soda. Leave them unlinked and know why.
What a link sets in motion
Food cost — every sale of the item is costed at its recipe. See Food Cost.
Stock — every sale takes its ingredients out of stock, sub-recipes included, the next morning. Without links, stock only moves with invoices, waste and counts.
Menu and the Menu reports
Two different pages, same word. Menu under Reports is what sold — Item Sales and Item Analysis. Menu under Inventory is this page: the wiring between what sold and what it cost.
Next
Food Cost — what the link produces.