Adding Non-Revenue Menu Items
Non-revenue menu items can be rung on guest checks while not adding to the net sales total amounts on financial reports. A typical use case for non-revenue menu items, is to use them to enter the value of a gift card reload amount. Operators can add the item to a check and then tender the transaction, causing the item's value to be added to a gift card. This value does not increment the system's revenue since no physical product has been sold.
The following restrictions are enforced on checks including non-revenue menu items on the point-of-sales (POS) system (including Transaction Services Gen1):
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Taxes and discounts are not applied to non-revenue menu items (even if they are configured in the EMC).
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Non-revenue menu items cannot be included as a part of combo meals. If a combo meal is rung containing non-revenue menu items, the POS generates an error message to users.
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Non-revenue menu items can only be configured as condiments for non-revenue parent menu items. Non-revenue menu items cannot be configured as condiments (or combo meal sides) for conventionally priced parent menu items, and vice versa. Incorrect configurations generate an error message to users.
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For all workstation financial reports, the previously existing line Non Rev Svc has been changed to Non Rev Total. Non-revenue menu items sales are now posted on the Non Rev Total line on reports.
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The existing Menu Item Sales and Menu Item Summary reports do not post non-revenue menu item sales totals. Two new workstation reports have been added to track such totals:-
Non Revenue Menu Item Sales
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Non Revenue Menu Item Summary
Configuring Non-Revenue Menu Items
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Select the Enterprise level, click Configuration, and then click Menu Item Maintenance.
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Click Insert on the toolbar.
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Add a master record using your preferred configuration method. See Configuring Master Records for Menu Items for more information.
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On each non-revenue menu item master record, enable the Non-Revenue checkbox, and then click Save.
Figure 17-2 Menu Item Maintenance - Master Records
See List of Workstation PMC Reports for more information about the available non-revenue menu item reports.