Using Combo Ingredients

Introduction

Combo dishes allow you to create recipe for combination ingredients which are used in more than one recipe i.e. Batter Mix, Bolognaise Sauce, Chicken Stock etc

Assumptions

The Combo dish should be assigned in the Combo Ingredients category

Where to find this

To create a Combo Ingredient, add a recipe dish as normal in the recipe manager and assign it to the combo ingredients category from the dropdown. When creating or amending other recipes this combo dish will now be available to add.

Step-by-step guide

When creating a Combo Ingredient you can define it in two different ways:

Option 1 - Portion Quantity  

This will allow you to set the number of portions your combo recipe will provide. i.e. if you are creating a recipe for a 2L jug of chicken stock and the portion size that is always used in each dish is 125ml, then you would be creating a 16 portion recipe for chicken stock.

When you add this ‘combo ingredient’ to a dish when building, the system will calculate how much of this recipe is being used and ensure the right cost is added to your main recipe.

Option 2 - Defined by Measurement/ Packsize

This will allow you to specify a measurement for your combo ingredient you must select ‘specify packsize’.

This will then allow you to set the quantity and unit of measure for the combo recipe.

i.e. you can create a combo recipe for a 2L jug of chicken stock, this can then be used by measurement in different recipes. For example you may wish to use 200ml of this stock in one recipe but 50ml in a different recipe.

Step 1.1 Choose Combo Ingredients Category

         1.2 Add Dish name

         1.3 Reference

         1.4 Outlet Brand( this is when you are creating dish in Head Office RM, you will not see this field within the Outlet.) 

         1.5 Define which of the Options from the above explained that you will want to combo ingredient to be defined.

         1.6 Enter a Wastage

Click ADD DISH

Step 2. Go to the next page and build your combo recipe in the usual way selecting your ingredients and then defining the quantities/units of measure of each( Refer to related guide on Creating/Amending  Recipe Dish )

Click UPDATE DISH

Step 3. You will now have the option when building a new recipe to select a Combo dish.  This option is located under the ingredient search tool.

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