Adding menus to the system will allow you to analyze your menu's profitability and manage the same content centrally, which is handy if it's reused in multiple places. The details of your menu are always kept confidential.
Before You Start
There a few things you'll want to have on hand.
Your current menu
A recent month's sales volume
Costs for each menu item. (Hint: By building our your recipes in Sysco Studio, you can get precise costs for each item on your menu.)
Add a Menu: Upload, Start from a Design, or Start from Scratch
The first step in menu engineering is to create a menu.
Upload is not yet available. This feature will enable you to provide a photo, design files, or PDF of your menu to quickly get your menu content into Sysco Studio.
Start from a Design. When you create a menu design, Sysco Studio saves your menu content. Select Start from a Design to bring content from a designed menu engineering section so you can analyze it & reuse it.
Start from Scratch. Most of the time, menu engineering is the first thing you'll want to do. This ensures that the menu you create is profitable. When you start from scratch you can add menu items yourself.
Your blank, newly created menu
When you arrive at a newly created menu, there are several things you can do.
Add a Menu Name - By default, your menu will be named by the date that it was created. Click on the title to change the name.
Add a Menu Description - Click on "Enter a description" to add a description. This description is for your own purposes.
Expand & Collapse Menu Categories - Right now, Sysco Studio offers a default set of menu categories. Adding, renaming, and reordering menu categories is on our roadmap for future improvements. The first category is expanded by default. Clicking on a category name opens the category.
Add Menu Items - To add a menu item, expand the menu category and select the big green "Add a Menu Item" button.
Actions - From the actions menu, you can duplicate or archive a menu. Archived menus can be restored.
Some features are meant to be used once you menu has already been added.
Sales - Add sales history to each menu items to see how each menu item contributes to your total profits.
"What if" Profit Calculations - Find our what happens to your overall revenue & profit picture if you changes prices or sales volume.