[{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"text":"Do you want to add flavors, quantities, or other customizations to a menu item?"}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"text":"For example, maybe you are selling"}]},{"type":"bulleted-list","children":[{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"🍪 cookies, and your customers can buy them individually or in multi-packs"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"🥯 a dozen bagels, and your customers can pick how many plain, poppy, etc."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"🍕 pizza, and your customers can choose the type of crust and toppings"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"text":"To do this, use "},{"text":"Item Options","bold":true},{"text":"."}]},{"type":"numbered-list","children":[{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Create a menu item"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Click Edit item details"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Scroll down to Item Options and click Add Option Group"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"text":"Your Option Group might be Flavor, Toppings, Quantity, or something else! Here's how to set up those 3 examples above."}]},{"type":"heading-two","children":[{"text":"COOKIES 🍪"}]},{"type":"bulleted-list","children":[{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"My Option Group is called Quantity because my cookies come in 3 different pack sizes"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"I set the base price to $3. This is the price of the cheapest option, the single cookie."}]},{"type":"bulleted-list","children":[{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"1 single cookie adds $0 to the $3 base price = $3"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Pack of 3 adds $5 to the $3 base price = $8"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Pack of 12 adds $27 to the $3 base price = $30"}]}]}]},{"type":"embed","children":[{"text":""}],"source":"

"},{"type":"heading-two","children":[{"text":" "}]},{"type":"heading-two","children":[{"text":"BAGELS 🥯"}]},{"type":"bulleted-list","children":[{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"My Option Group is called Flavor and the options are Plain, Everything, Sesame, and Cinnamon Raisin."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"I checked "},{"text":"Enable customers to customize the quantity of each option","italic":true},{"text":", because I want to let my customers pick any combo of 12. They can pick 12 plain, or 1 Plain + 11 Cinnamon Raisin, or 3 of each, etc."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"I set Required and Max options to 12 to ensure my customers pick exactly 12...no more, no fewer!"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"To get my prep list in shape, I'd also email support@hotplate.com and ask for "},{"text":"Items within Items","bold":true,"link":"https://help.hotplate.com/articles/693091-add-option-group"},{"text":"!"}]}]},{"type":"embed","source":"

","height":360,"children":[{"text":""}]},{"type":"heading-two","children":[{"text":""}]},{"type":"heading-two","children":[{"text":"PIZZA 🍕"}]},{"type":"bulleted-list","children":[{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"I created 3 Option Groups: Crust, Sauce, and Toppings because I'm letting my customers choose each of these"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"I did NOT check "},{"text":"Enable customers to customize the quantity of each option","italic":true},{"text":", because each option was a Yes or No."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Required and Max options"}]},{"type":"bulleted-list","children":[{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"I set Required to 1 and Max to 1 for Crust and Sauce because each pizza must have 1 (and only 1) type of crust, and 1 (and only 1) type of sauce."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"I set Required to 0 and Max to 5 for Toppings because a customer can choose none (for a plain cheese pizza) or as many as all 5 (for a deliciously loaded pizza)!"}]}]}]},{"type":"embed","source":"

","height":360,"children":[{"text":""}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"text":""}]}]

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