Multi-Choice Composed Menu

The Multi-choice Menu feature allows the hotel to create a composed menu with choices of starters, main courses, desserts, and so on — all having the same Sell price. Then, during the booking process, the user can choose one of the existing multi-choice menus online, and customize it while consulting with the client. There is no need to create a separate composed menu for each possible combination of menu items.

Multi-choice menu composition starts with the Menu Composition screen. To access the Menu Composition screen, select Configuration > Catering > Standard Menu Setup.

Multi-choice menu creation follows the same process as the normal composed menu creation. The differences will be mainly in the way the Order and Course are defined and in the calculation of the Revenue Types (cost, and item price).

Step 1: Create the Composed Menu

When creating a multi-choice menu, flag the Multi-choice Menu field on the Composed Menu - New or Composed Menu - Edit screen (to access this screen, select the New button beneath the Composed Menu Class grid).

Step 2: Select the Menu Items

Select the Menu Items from the Standard Menu Items tree.

Select for instance:
3 starters
3 main courses
3 desserts
2 beverages

Once selected, these Menu Items will display in the Composed Menu Details grid. They will all have Course = 1 and Order = 1.

Highlight an item and select the Edit button to view and edit menu item details. See Editing Composed Menu Items for information on editing the menu item details.

Step 3: Define Course and Order

To be considered as part of a multi-choice course, more than one menu item must belong to the same Course and have the same Order.

For example, in the above example, we want to be able to choose:

one Menu Item from among the 3 Menu Items in the Starters category
one Menu Item from among the 2 Menu Items in the Main category
one Menu Item from among the 3 Menu Items in the Dessert category
one Menu Item from among the 2 Menu Items in the Beverages category

If all the Courses are designated 1, we would be only able to choose one Menu Item among all the 10 selected. Therefore, to be able to define choices in each category, each category should have its own Course number:

Starters = 1
Main = 2
Dessert = 3
Beverages = 4

(The actual Course number is user definable each time a new menu is created.)

Within each Course, the Order number for each item must be identical (if not, the menu item won't be considered as par of the multiple choices within the Course):

Step 4: Revenue Type Calculations

Assume that 2 Revenue Types are associated with a multi-choice menu: FOOD and BEV. For each Revenue Type, you can have more than one category:

Revenue Type	Category	Description
FOOD	1.1	Starters
	2.1	Main
	3.1	Dessert
BEV	4.1	Beverages

The information won't be accurate to define the split if we sum up all the costs and item prices. Therefore, an average must be calculated per category (because we can have different numbers of menu items per category), and then sum of the category average per Revenue Type:

Revenue Type	Category	Menu Item	Revenue	Cost
FOOD	1.1	Seared Ocean Scallops	7.95	3.20
	1.1	Lobster Ravioli	7.95	2.69
	1.1	Skillet Roasted Mussels	7.95	3.20
	1.1	Average	7.95	3.03

	2.1	Sauteed Shrimp Scampi	21.95	10.36
	2.1	Cowboy Steak	21.95	9.85
	2.1	Florida Lobster Tail	20.95	8.50
	2.1	Average	21.62	9.57

	3.1	Cinnamon Apple Tart	4.30	1.15
	3.1	Chocolate Mint Brownie	4.30	1.21
	3.1	Tipsy Cake	4.25	1.20
	3.1	Average	4.28	1.19

		AVERAGE FOOD	33.85	13.79

BEV	4.1	Chateau Guiraud	11.25	5.42
	4.1	Chateau Clos Saint Julien	15.00	3.54
	4.1	Average	13.13	4.48
		AVERAGE BEV	13.13	4.48

		AVERAGE TOTAL	46.98	18.27

Once the average figures are calculated, we can define a split based on accurate information.