Menus in Lightspeed Restaurant Back Office characterize your business and are essential for determining the items available to order at the POS. An organized menu structure simplifies user interactions on the POS, resulting in more efficient service.

Assign each menu to a device to easily toggle between configurations on the POS, allowing users to access certain menus at certain times of the day or in certain areas of the establishment. Import menus to add multiple menus with items simultaneously and export menus to save and use the data outside the Back Office.

If you have multiple business locations, you can quickly share menus with your other business locations.

Articles about Menus

This section contains a list of articles about menus. Each one has a category description, but click the links to read more in-depth information.

• Creating menus: Create menus with main screens, sub-screens, and buttons.
• Managing menus: Edit, duplicate, and delete menus.
• Importing and exporting menus: Import menus into the Back Office to save time and export menus to use data beyond the Back Office.
• Sharing menus with business locations: Share menus with multiple locations instead of creating separate menus for each.

Menu components

Menus consist of the following components:

• Main screens: Menu categories that sort buttons into groups.
• Buttons: Items, sub-screens (screens within the main screen), discounts, production instructions, transfer operations, order profiles, or web extensions that can be selected on the POS within the main screen.

For example, a menu could be called Dinner Menu, with 6 main screens of Appetizer, Main course, Dessert, Soft drinks, Beer, and Wine. The Wine main screen could contain White Wine and Red Wine sub-screens with all wine items added as buttons.

Menus FAQ

We've compiled a list of frequently asked questions about menus, so you can quickly find the answers you need.

• A single menu can have a maximum of 20 main screens.

• No, you do not need to create all items before creating a menu. However, you will need to create items to include them on the menu.

• Yes, you can edit your menu at any time, as well as duplicate and delete it. To delete a menu, it must be unlinked from its configuration.

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