Products (Menu Recipes)
Products (Menu Recipes) are the all the items you sell on your Menu. Products may consist of single items, combo platters, side dishes, add-ons etc.
Before you can link the products from your
POS System or enter in the sales from your till tape, you will
want to make sure that you have setup the Items, Preps and
Products. 
You can also import the Description, POS ID,
Selling Price and Sales Groups information
from your POS System. All you will have to do is add the ingredients and a
Selling price. See Linking POS to
Products for
complete instructions.
Make sure that you have determined the Cost of Sales percentage you want to operate your restaurant at. If not, and you are new in the business, consult your accountant. They will probably advise you to try to achieve a 30 - 35 % cost of sales, perhaps higher in certain types of fine dining establishments.
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Click Products
from the
Button Bar, or from the Upper Menu,
click Recipes | Products -
The Select Product window appears.
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From this window, you can view, edit or create a new Product. See Creating Products
You can sort the list by clicking on any header E.G. Item Num, POS ID# etc. There is also a Search feature that allows you to type in a few letters of the product you need to locate and Optimum Control will narrow the list.
Menu Product Entry