Managing Multi-Choice Menus

The Multi-Choice Menu is a composed menu with choices of starters, main courses, desserts, and others sold at a single price. You can add, update, and delete a multi choice menu on an event, which allows you to choose optional courses either while booking the menu or later on update. This can help reduce the need to create a separate composed menu for each possible combination of menu items. You can report on multi-choice menus in the Food and Beverage Plan report.

Multi-choice menus are visually distinguished from regular menus on the Events Resources screen and the Menus drawer by (M).

When you add or change multi-choice menus, OPERA Cloud calculates the revenue automatically.

Adding Multi-Choice Menus

You can select optional menu items during the menu booking process. Courses are visually distinguished by (M) within the multi-choice menu.

1. From the OPERA Cloud menu, select Bookings, select Events, and then select Manage Events.

2. Select or confirm the Property, enter any additional search criteria, and click Search.

3. From search results, select the event’s I Want To . . . action and select Event Resources from the Go To column.

4. Select the event, click the Menus drawer, and select one or more multi-choice menu item(s).

   1. Multi-choice menus in the drawer are identified by the (M) prefix.

   2. Menu items configured as Mandatory are pre selected by a check mark in the drawer.

5. Click Save or click Save and Add More.

Editing Multi-Choice Menus

You can perform a range of editing functions on multi-choice menu items using the actions available in Event Resources.

1. From the OPERA Cloud menu, select Bookings, select Events, and then select Manage Events.

2. Select or confirm the Property, enter additional search criteria, and click Search.

3. From event search results, select the event’s I Want To . . . action and select Event Resources and from the Go To column.

4. Select the multi-choice menu marked by (M), click the menu’s vertical ellipsis, and select Edit.

5. On the Edit Menu screen, make your changes in the available fields or menu items.

   Note:

   The Actual attendee field appears on the menu only if the event status is ACT. The Expected and Guaranteed attendee fields appear on the menu only if the fields contain values on the event.
6. From the list of menu items attached to the menu, you can change certain selections on each menu item course at the list level. To edit the entire menu item course:

   1. Click a menu item’s vertical ellipsis and select Edit.

   2. Make your changes.

   3. Click Save to return to the Edit Menu screen.

   Note:

   The courses are differentiated by course and order to make them easily distinguishable for Menu Item selection.

7. To convert a multi-choice menu item to a regular menu item:

   1. Select menu items.

   2. Click Convert to Regular.

   3. The Event Resources screen opens, and the multi-choice menu is converted to a regular menu along with selected menu items (the menu no longer displays the multi-choice (M) indicator).

8. Click Save to return to Event Resources.

Related topic:Editing Menu Resources on Block Events

Deleting Multi-Choice Menu Items

You can delete one or multiple menus from an event.

1. From the OPERA Cloud menu, select Bookings, select Events, and then select Manage Events.

2. Select or confirm the Property, enter any additional search criteria, and click Search.

3. From event search results, select the event’s I Want To . . . action and select Event Resources from the Go To column.

4. Select the multi-choice menu marked by (M), click the menu’s vertical ellipsis, and select Delete.

5. Click Delete to confirm.