Creating a Menu

Prerequisites for Configuring Menus

Menus are grouped into logical categories called Menu Classes that can make it easier to find a menu and assist in filtering menus by event type.

Composed Menus are a collection of preselected menu items. The following are the three main types of composed menus:

• Standard menus. These menus can include menu item sold for an all-inclusive price, sold as a group of individually priced menu items, or sold as a combination of the two.

• Consumption menus. These menus enable you to charge for menus based on what was actually consumed regardless of the number of attendees at the event. The quantity requested for each item does not print on the Banquet Event Order. Instead, it is used only to calculate the expected and guaranteed revenue for the event.

• Multi-choice menus. These menus are available with Oracle Hospitality OPERA Cloud Service, Sales and Event Management Premium Edition and enable you to create a composed menu with choices of starters, main courses, desserts, and so on. When the menu is added to an event, you can customize the menu based on the client's selections.

Creating a Menu

1. From the Administration menu, select Booking, select Resource Management, and select Menu.

2. Select the Composed Menu tab, click New.

3. In Menu Details, complete the following:

   1. Property. Select or confirm the property name.

   2. Menu Class. Select a menu class from the list.

   3. Menu Name. Enter a Name for the menu, such as Continental Breakfast, Italian Lunch Buffet. Select Manage Translation to configure a translated menu name for each language.

   4. Restriction. Enter any restriction placed on the menu, including attendees, lead time, or seasonal. Select Manage Translation configure a translated restriction name for each language.

   5. Description. Enter an additional description of the menu. Select Manage Translation configure a translated description for each language.

   6. Dietary. Select any dietary attributes of the menu from the list.

   7. Event Type. Event Types get populated based on the selected menu Class. Select the event types applicable for the menu from the list.

   8. Quick Insert. Enter a unique code that you can use when searching for menus to be added to an event.

   9. Menu Type. Select a Menu Type. Your selection determines whether the menu prints on the Banquet Event Order under the Food section or the Beverage section

   10. Servings. Select Per Person or Per Table to indicate how this menu is priced. If you select Per Table, the Table Capacity field becomes enabled and you must enter the number of guests at each table.

   11. Multi-choice menus . Enables you to create a composed menu with choices of starters, main courses, desserts, and so on. When the menu is added to an event, you can customize the menu based on the client's selections. (Available when Multi Choice Menus OPERA Control is active).

   12. Multi Choice. Select to configure a multi-choice menu . Select to configure a multi-choice menu.  Multi-choice menus are visually distinguished from regular menus on the Resources screen and the Menus drawer by (M). (Available when the Multi Choice Menus OPERA Control is active).

   13. Course Count. Appears when you select Multi-Choice. Enter the number of courses in the multi-choice menu.

   14. Consumption. Select if all of the menu items associated to this menu are sold on a consumption basis, which means that the menu items are sold separately and the group is charged based on the number of menu items used.

   15. Sell Date Range. Enter the start and end dates of the period when this menu may be sold.

   16. Event Date Range. Enter the start and end dates of the period when this event must take place in order to use this menu.

4. Click Next. Complete the Menu Multi Choice section if you selected Multi Choice in the Menu Details panel.

   1. Course. Enter the course number.

   2. Choice Count. Enter the number of menu item choices for the course.

   3. Course Description. Enter the course description. Select Manage Translations configure a course description for each language.

   4. Course Name. Enter the course name. Select Manage Translations configure a course name for each language.

   5. Repeat entries for each course listed.

   6. Click the page level vertical ellipsis and select Add to add a course.

   7. Click a course’s vertical ellipsis and select Delete to delete a course.

5. Click Next. Complete the Menu Items selection. When selecting menu items for the menu you can determine whether the menu items should be included in the price of the menu or priced individually. To include all selected menu items in the menu price, select the Include in Menu checkbox.

   1. Click the Menu Items drawer.

   2. Click [+] to expand the menu item classes and then select one or more Items (grouped by menu item class).

   3. Include in Menu. Click to include the selected items in the price of the menu.

   4. Click Add Menu Item.

   5. Course. Enter the number to represent the course. For multi-choice menus, select the appropriate course from the available list.

   6. Order. Enter the number to represent the sequence the menu item should be served within the course. 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 value.

   7. Demand Factor. Enter a value representing the percentage of guests who will consume this menu item. For example, a cash bar may have a menu item for beer that is ordered 40% of the time. In this case, the item would have a demand factor of .4. By default, the demand factor populates with 1. And you can manually change the value (available when the Menu Item Demand Factor in OPERA Controls is active).

   8. Menu Item Name. Name of the menu item attached to the highlighted menu.

   9. Sales Price. The price of the Menu Item if it were separately (if not included in a menu).

   10. Price per Serving. The price per individual serving.

   11. Container. The container defined for the menu item.

   12. Revenue Type. The revenue type attached to the menu item.

   13. Serving. Enter the number of servings. By default, the Serving field defaults to 1.

   14. Included. Select the check box to indicate that the menu item is included in the menu price. If the menu item should be charged in addition to the menu price, you should not select the check box.

   15. Consumption. Select to indicate that the menu items is charged based on consumption. Menu items marked as Consumption do not print a quantity on the Banquet Event Order. The quantity is used only for revenue forecasting purposes.

   16. Print. Select the check box if the menu item should print on the Banquet Event Order and other menu reports.

   17. Mandatory. Select this check box for menu items that come with the menu automatically and the user does not have to choose between multiple items (available for multi-choice menus only).

   18. Repeat the updates for each menu item selected.

   19. To delete a menu item, select the item, click vertical ellipsis, and click Delete.

   20. Click Delete to confirm.

6. Click Next. Complete the Pricing Details section.

   1. Price. Enter the amount to charge for the selected Revenue Type.

7. Click Save or Save and Go to Presentation to edit the menu details.