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Your menu is built in the Menu Builder in the restaurant dashboard. It has three building blocks: categories, items, and modifier groups.

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Categories

Categories are the sections of your menu — Coffee & Hot, Brunch, Wraps & Salads, Cold Drinks. Add a category, then add items to it. Categories appear as tabs on the customer’s menu in the order you set.

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Items

Each item has a name, a price, an optional photo and description, a kitchen station (so the order routes to the right screen), and allergen / dietary information.
  • Price is entered in your currency’s main unit (e.g. 3.20 for £3.20). Internally everything is stored in the smallest unit (pence, cents, paise) so totals never drift.
  • Station (e.g. bar, grill, cold) decides which Kitchen Display ticket the item joins. Leave it blank for a single-station kitchen.
  • Allergens — tick any of the 14 FSA allergens; they’re shown to the customer inline.
  • Vegetarian / vegan markers show a green dot on the menu.
  • 86 an item — toggle Available off to hide a sold-out item instantly; toggle it back on when it returns.

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Modifier groups

Modifier groups are how a customer customises an item — Size, Milk, Add extras. A group is reusable: build “Milk options” once and attach it to every coffee. Each group has:
  • Required or optional — a required group must be chosen before the item can be added to the basket (e.g. Size). Optional groups can be skipped (e.g. Add extras).
  • How many — the minimum and maximum a customer may choose. Set max to 1 for a single choice (radio buttons); higher for multi-select (checkboxes).
  • Options — each option has a name and a price change (which can be zero, or even negative). “Large +£0.80”, “Oat milk +£0.50”, “Extra shot +£0.60”.
When a customer picks options, the item’s price updates live and the exact choices are saved with the order — so a later menu edit never changes a placed order.

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Tax, service charge and tips

In Settings you choose how money is handled:
  • Tax mode — VAT (UK/EU), GST (India), Sales tax, or None.
  • Inclusive or exclusive — UK menus are usually VAT-inclusive (the price already includes tax); exclusive adds it at checkout.
  • Per-order-type rates — e.g. eat-in vs cold-takeaway can carry different VAT.
  • Service charge — an optional percentage (commonly 12.5%) applied to dine-in orders. It is discretionary, so the customer can remove it, and it sits outside the tax base.
  • Tips — offer preset tip percentages at checkout.

Tables & Kitchen Display

Next: print table QR codes and run the kitchen board.