A Guide to Constructing a Menu

Introduction

This document will walk you through the process of creating your restaurant menu for your Point-of-Sale. It is designed in a step-by-step guide or in a recommended order to easily organize your menu offerings. Each sheet includes sample entries to reference, making it easier for you to build your restaurant menu.

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How to Manage Menu? eatOS

Important Notes

If you have a question or need assistance, please do not hesitate to reach out to your implementation team.

Click Here to Download Menu Template (Excel)

Free to reference on the provided samples, remove before submitting to your Account Executive / Implementation Executive.

Ingredients

The best way to begin creating your restaurant menu is by starting to list all of the Ingredients of all your products. Using the Excel menu template (to easily manage listings), list all of the ingredients in the Name column of the Ingredients sheet.

Important Required Values

Modifiers

After you have listed all your ingredients, our next step is to create modifiers. From the modifiers sheet, list all of the Modifiers in the Name column.

Important Note Setting Mandatory = True – makes it a forced modifier

Setting Mandatory = False – means customers are not required to select an item

Enable modifier option and set the selection capacity of multiple modifiers at the eatOS dashboard Menu Modifiers section can be controlled either on the POS or the dashboard.

Important Required Values

Add-Ons

Begin to list all add-ons in the Name column from the Add-Ons sheet. If add-ons have Multiple Options set value on Multiple Options = True

Important Note Setting MANDATORY = TRUE – makes it a forced add-on

Setting MANDATORY = FALSE – means customers are not required to select an item

It is recommended to always set MANDATORY = FALSE to prevent any end-user error in completing orders.

Important Required Values

Groups

Important Note

Important Required Values

Group modifier can share individual modifiers and add-ons. A product may have multiple modifier groups assigned, and a modifier group can also be assigned to more than one product.

Products

The products section provides complete details of your menu. On the Product sheet, input all Important Required Values for each column to work properly.

Important Note

Important Required Values

Categories

On the Categories sheet, assign Products within Categories. This section allows you to create Parent & Child Categories. It is important to note the difference between the parent category column and the category column itself.

Important Note

PARENT Categories will be named individually in the CATEGORY column.

CHILD Category will be named within the category column and followed by being assigned to the individual named PARENT categories.

Important Required Values

Menu

Create or provide a Menu Name for your Menu(s). From the Menu sheet, create Menus with their specified parameter and products.

Important Required Values

Printers/Taxes/Service Charge/Discounts

To easily assign and create Printers, Taxes, Service Charge , and Discounts, we recommend adding and configuring topics to the eatOS dashboard or your POS device.

Below are sample entries on Excel when exported from your dashboard:

Printers

Important Required Values

Taxes

Important Required Values

Service Charges

Important Required Values

Discounts

Important Required Values

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Updated on: 12/29/2025

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