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Do you want to add flavors, quantities, or other customizations to a menu item?

🍪 cookies, and your customers can buy them individually or in multi-packs

🥯 a dozen bagels, and your customers can pick how many plain, poppy, etc.

🍕 pizza, and your customers can choose the type of crust and toppings

Scroll down to Item Options and click Add Option Group

Your Option Group might be Flavor, Toppings, Quantity, or something else! Here's how to set up those 3 examples above.

My Option Group is called Quantity because my cookies come in 3 different pack sizes

I set the base price to $3. This is the price of the cheapest option, the single cookie.

My Option Group is called Flavor and the options are Plain, Everything, Sesame, and Cinnamon Raisin.

Enable customers to customize the quantity of each option

, 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.

I set Required and Max options to 12 to ensure my customers pick exactly 12...no more, no fewer!

To get my prep list in shape, I'd also email support@hotplate.com and ask for 

I created 3 Option Groups: Crust, Sauce, and Toppings because I'm letting my customers choose each of these

Add option group

Are you selling an assortment, and want your prep list to calculate how many of each option in the assortment was ordered? We call this "items within items," and this is something we can help you with!

For example, if you are selling a bag of 7 bagels, your prep list might look something like this. You can see the flavors ordered in each assortment, but at a glance, you don't know how many bagels total to make of each flavor.

Good news! We can make your prep list look like this:

Reach out to us at 214-833-9248 or support@hotplate.com, ask for 

Managing your prep list - items within items

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Managing your prep list - items within items

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