Configuring Family Groups

1. Select the Enterprise, click Configuration, and then click Family Groups.

   (Prior to Simphony release 19.7, it was possible to create Family Groups at the Enterprise, zone, or location levels of the system.)

2. Insert a record with the name of the family group (for example, Appetizers).
3. Enter a number other than 0 (zero) in the Report Group field.

   For example, you can enter 1 for all family groups associated with Food and enter 2 for all family groups associated with Liquor. When you enter 0 (zero), the menu item does not appear on the Menu Item Report.

4. (Optional) Select the Parent Major Group to which the new family group belongs.

   Tip:

   Assigning a Parent Major Group to a Family Group provides a filtering of choices when assigning a family group to a Menu Item Master record, where only the family groups belonging to the assigned Major Group appear in the drop-down list. This is useful when there are a large number of family groups configured, or to prevent assigning a family group which is not associated with a major group.
5. Click Save.

   Note:

   For Simphony Transaction Services Gen 2 (STS Gen 2) users, see the Configuring Menu Item Definitions, Family Groups, and Condiment Group Names Consumer-Facing Settings and Associating Images to Menu Item SLUs topics in the Transaction Services chapter for information about associating images to menu items, Family Groups, and SLUs.