20 Event Menu Planning

Event Menu Planning enables you to:

  • Plan future menus for your cost centers

  • Measure the planned, expected, and actual profitability of a menu

  • Print recipe report to determine the inventory items your cost center orders

Before creating an Event Menu Plan, create menu groups. See Menu Groups for instructions.
The following table describes the symbols and styles used in the Event Menu Planning page:

Table 20-1 Event Menu Planning Symbols and Styles

Symbols and Styles Connotation

This image shows an exclamation point inside a triangle.

The menu item is not linked to a recipe or an inventory item. No sales price, revenue, margin, and COS value are populated. That is, the values are shown as 0.00. Once the menu item is linked to a recipe or inventory item in Menu Item Linking, all values in Event Menu Planning update accordingly.

The menu item number (PLU) is red.

The menu item is inactive.