It is through linking menu items that Inventory Management accurately depletes the stock on hand of inventory items. You can link one menu item to multiple inventory items or recipes. That is, if your organization has a recipe that is sold multiple ways, you can link the menu item to up to 10 menu levels of that recipe.
For example, a restaurant sells French fries in two different sizes: small and large. The restaurant has created a recipe for French fries, but the recipe is only applicable for a small size. A large fries is equal to two small fries. By linking the recipes and knowing the ratio, Inventory Management determines that when a large fries is sold, two portions of the small fries recipe must be depleted in order to account for the sale.
Inventory Management can also deplete items and recipes based on the order type information sent from the Point-of-Sale (POS) client. This is suitable for organizations that implement different product preparation that is dependent on the order type. For example, a coffee shop that sells coffee to go in a paper cup and coffee in-house in a porcelain mug. The recipe for the coffee to go would include a paper cup and lid, but the coffee in-house would not.
How your recipes and menu levels are set up determine how you link your recipes.