This guide will assist you in replacing several ingredients with another ingredient:
Common reasons you may want to do this:
- You already have the product in the system but you want to change it from one product to another across all your recipes/sub recipes and menus
- The product has been discontinued by the supplier and you need to swap it out across all your recipes/sub recipes and menus
- You want to change the supplier for that product to another supplier, because you are not happy with the quality or the price
Objective:
To change one or several products in the system and ensure that these changes feed through to your recipes/sub recipes and menus.
Depending on whether you want to remove the old product or you wish to keep it in the system is up to you. But there are 2 different processes you must follow:
First you must ensure that the new product has been correctly imported/added to the system - see product import guides.
If you wish to keep the old product in the system:
- Click on Menu Costing > Products
- Then click on “Find and Replace”
- Search for the product you want to replace in the box showing “Change Product” where it says “Enter Product name”
- Click on the product you want to replace;
- Then search for the product you want to replace it with, click on that product;
- Then Click "Replace".
What this will do is replace:
- The old product for the new one in every single sub recipe/recipe and menu that product has been used in
- It will re-calculate all of the sub recipe/recipe and menu costings
- It will also change the allergens on all sub recipes/recipes and menus if these have changed with the new/replaced product and the product was tagged with allergens initially
NB:- the old product will still be in the system and will still be able to be used
- If you wish to remove or delete any products on a single site you can delete the products that do not have a red line under the box next to them (the red line means that the product is being used in a sub recipe/recipe, as below)
- If you want to remove/delete the product WITH the red line you need to find & replace as mentioned above, as the system will not allow the deletion of a used item
- If you want to delete the product WITHOUT the red line under it:
- Click Actions > Delete
- You will not have the option to delete a product with a red line under the box
You can multi delete products by:-
- Selecting multiple products you want to delete via checking the tick-box next to the products you want to delete
- OR by multi-selecting them all by clicking the tick-box next to “code”
- At the bottom right of the page, click on the “Do with selected” drop down menu
- Then click “Delete products”
