Menu management

What it is

Menu management is the single home for everything you sell: menus, items, photos, prices, customisations, allergens and availability. Edit once in admin, and every guest-facing surface — your website menu, QR table ordering, the kiosk, tablets and online ordering — shows the change instantly.

What problem it solves

In a typical venue the same menu lives in four or five places — the website, the delivery apps, the till, the laminated card — and a price change takes a week to reach them all, if it ever does. Here the menu exists once. There is nothing to sync because there is nothing separate to sync with.

How it works

1. Manage menus in the menu workbench: items, modifiers, dayparts and kitchen assignment, with drag-and-drop ordering that carries straight through to what guests see.

2. Each item carries everything the platform needs: price (GST-inclusive — the number on the menu is the number the guest pays), photo, description, allergens, dietary tags, prep time, an availability window for items that start at a certain hour, and badges like best seller or chef's pick.

3. Define customisations per item — sizes, add-ons, cooking preferences — as modifier groups with required/optional flags and selection limits. The same groups drive the dish modal on every ordering surface.

4. Run multiple menus — breakfast, dinner, functions, a separate kitchen's menu — each assigned to its kitchen so items fire to the right station automatically.

5. Save, and it is live. Every mutation invalidates the public menu everywhere at once: the website menu, QR, kiosk, tablet and online ordering all read the same record. An item can also mark itself unavailable automatically when its stock runs out.

6. Allergen tags flow through to kitchen tickets and guest-facing surfaces, and connect to the compliance allergen matrix covered in the food safety guide.

Everything inside the system

• Multiple menus per venue with kitchen assignment and daypart organisation.
• Item editor with photos, GST-inclusive pricing, allergens, dietary tags and availability windows.
• Modifier groups (required/optional, selection limits) shared by every ordering surface.
• Drag-and-drop ordering, best-seller and chef's-pick badges, automatic 86-ing on stock-out.
• Instant propagation to website, QR, kiosk, tablet and online ordering.
• Allergen data flowing through to tickets and the compliance matrix.

This is built into NexDine — there is no separate menu tool to buy or log into. If you list on delivery marketplaces through an optional Deliverect or Doshii connection, those channels take orders against the same menu data, managed from inside NexDine.