Recipes

Avero's Recipe Box

Avero's Recipe Box, within Food Cost management, holds all of your menu item and bulk recipes. Avero uses the recipes you tie to POS codes to determine a Theoretical Cost of Goods Sold and inform our depletion calculation. We allow you to create batch recipes that you can nest within your menu items as well. This article will discuss the following topics:

• Building Recipes
• Creating Batch Recipes
• Creating Menu Item Recipes
• Editing a Recipe
• Using Recipe Tags
• Add POS Code to Existing Recipe
• Deleting a Recipe
• Printing or Exporting a Recipe

Building Recipes

Building out all your recipes can be a big task and we want to help you prioritize the items you sell the most.  At the top of the recipe box, Avero will display POS Items that are not yet associated with a recipe.  Keep the following in mind when viewing this information:

• These items are broken down by Food, Beverage, and Other.
• Items are displayed within three boxes, food, beverage, and other
• Items are sorted by the items that have the highest sales in the last 7 days. 

Creating Batch Recipes

Before you start working on your menu items, you will want to make all your batch recipes.  By doing so, you can add the ingredients from your batch recipes, when you build out your menu items. 

To create your batch recipes, follow these guidelines: 

1. Go to Recipes and then to, Recipe Box
2. Click on the + to add a new Recipe
3. Name the Recipe 
4. To add ingredients:
   1. Type what you need in the Ingredient 1 space and hit enter.
   2. Or, click the magnifying glass to search for that product. We will return a list of products that match the search term entered. Click on the blue + next to the ingredient you need to add.
5. Enter a quantity and a unit for that ingredient.
   • Please Note: If you don't see the unit of measure that you are looking for, make sure that you have the conversion configured for that product in the product list page.
6. Click Add Another Ingredient link and add all of the ingredients needed
7. Fill in the Yield and Portion amounts. The yield reflects the total amount this recipe will create.  The portion reflects how the recipe breaks down or the units you use of this in another recipe.
8. Do you need to inventory this recipe? If so, you can scroll down and check the box where it says Add to Inventory. This will create a product detail card for this recipe so you can count it in your regular inventory. You will be prompted to fill in the Units of Measure conversions and Inventory Unit as well.
9. Click More Options to add instructions for your cooks. 

Please Note: batch recipes should not have POS Codes attached to them. If you have a POS code for a single portion of the recipe you should create a separate recipe tied to that POS code with 1 PRTN of the batch recipe as an ingredient. 

Need more help?  Watch the following video for further instruction.

Creating Menu Item Recipes

The three boxes at the top of your screen will suggest items that are not currently tied to a POS code. These suggestions are based on high volume items that are actively selling. We recommend starting here, as it will automatically offer you the relevant POS codes for these items.

To create your menu item recipes, complete the following steps:

1. Click the blue + sign next to the suggested POS item
2. The item's POS code will populate in the recipe if you select an item from the top. If you sell the same item in different sizes or at different prices we'll show you all of those codes. Just select the one you want to work on and then click the check mark on the top left of the list. 
3. Name the recipe
4. Add ingredients by:
   1. Typing the first product into Ingredient 1 and hit enter
   2. Or, click the magnifying glass to search. We will return a list of products that match the search term entered. Click on the blue + next to the ingredient you need to add.
5. Enter a quantity and a unit for that ingredient.
   • Please Note: If you don't see the unit of measure that you are looking for, make sure that you have the conversion configured for that product in the product list page.
6. Click Add Another Ingredient to add all the ingredients needed
7. Next, you need to set the yield and portion. For recipes that you tie to POS codes, this value should match. Most commonly this will be Yield = 1 PRTN and portion = 1 PRTN
8. Finally, click Add Recipe and you'll be able to see the cost breakdown of that menu item.

Need additional help?  Watch the following video for further instruction:

 

Please Note:  because this item is tied to a POS code, in addition to viewing the theoretical COGS in the COGS report,  you can also run Item Sales reports under the Sales tab with COGS metrics.

Copying Recipes

To clone a recipe, select the icon on the recipe header that looks like two pages. An exact copy will appear in your recipe list and this success message will appear:

Editing a Recipe

You can edit just about everything within a recipe. You can also add pictures and special instructions for your back-of-house staff in the edit recipe window. 

To Edit a recipe, complete the following steps:

1. Click Edit (the pencil icon) to open the Recipe card and edit as needed. You can make the following changes:

• Change the name or description. 
• Add, Edit, or Remove POS codes and Tags. 
• Add, Edit, or remove ingredients.
• Upload a photo.
• Change your yield and portion amount. 
• Add special instructions for staff. 
• Change the Units of Measure and Inventory Unit.
• Add this recipe to your product list and rightful storage area. 

 

Using Recipe Tags

Recipe Tags are keywords that you can "tag" your recipes with so that you can filter your view and stay organized. You might want a "Batch recipe" tag so that you can easily see only your batch recipes. Or maybe you'd like to be able to see only appetizers or happy hour items.

Tags can be created/added from within a recipe card. To do so, complete the following steps:

1. Click the + sign
2. Enter the name of your tag.
3. Once you create a tag, you will be able to search this tag type within your other recipes.  

 

Add POS Code to Existing Recipe

1. Click Edit (pencil icon) to open the Recipe card.
2. Below the image is the POS Code field, click Search and search the name of your item.
3. Scroll to find the correct one and select. Success message appears. 

Deleting a Recipe

Navigate to the Recipe Box and locate the recipe you would like to delete. You cannot delete recipes that are used as ingredients in another recipe, so you will need to remove it from the other recipe first. If you have added your recipe (for example, batch recipes) to your product list we will confirm before deleting. 

1. Click Delete (trash can icon). This is permanent, so make sure beforehand that you want to delete this recipe. 
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   • Success message:
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   • Warning message:
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   • Are you sure message:
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Printing or Exporting a Recipe

To print or export a recipe:

1. Open the recipe you want to print by clicking Edit. 
2. To Print: Use the Printer icon on the top right to print your recipe. 
3. To Export: Use the PDF/Excel icons to export your recipe in the desired format. 

Recipes will print containing the cost information for each ingredient, this cannot be removed for printing, but the total recipe cost and extra plate cost will not be displayed on the printed recipe. 

Recipes cannot be printed or exported en masse, only individually from the edit screen.