Organize Your Menu with Square for Restaurants
Finding the best way to organize your menu setup may feel like a daunting task, but with Square, you are easily able to set up your displays and make edits on the go to optimize for speed and efficiency for your staff.
Organize Your Layout
Menus are helpful for speed screens, seasonal menus and meal periods. Store multiple menu setups for different dining services you might offer: Lunch, Dinner, Brunch, Counter Service.
Add Display Groups to store items or add items directly to the home screen. Up to 32 of the small buttons may be added to the home screen. Adding Items directly to the home screen can improve efficiency and give your staff easy access to those top sellers.
Customize Your Tiles
Tile Size
Tiles colour and size can be manipulated to create a pleasing aesthetic and a logical workflow:
Use tall or wide tiles to make buttons more accessible.
Tile Colour
Avoid tiles of the same colour touching one another; this makes 2 separate buttons look like one big button:
Tile Organization
Use colours that might be associated with the items within the display groups (for example, Salads = green, Desserts = purple). Coordinate the tile sizes and arrangement to group similar things together. See the example below: All food categories are wide tiles and grouped to one side or the other, all drinks are tall tiles opposite them. Alphabetize the display groups or put them in a logical order flow (appetizers first, then entrées, then desserts). Whatever makes sense for your individual restaurant!
Set Up Display Groups and Nested Display Groups
You can add items within a display group, or you can add sub-displays if you wish to further break down your items by type. For example, in a “Wine” display group, you might have a subgroup of “red” and “white”, then group the wines by type in each nested display group.
You can also add an item to multiple display groups. For example, the item “Side Salad” might appear in the Salad display group as well as the Sides display group.
Quickly Add Items to Display Groups
You can add items to display groups one at a time OR in bulk! Click the + button. Choose Existing Items, and you can add one item at a time or add an entire category! Once the item tiles appear, you can change the size to make the button larger and use the A–Z button to alphabetize them. Or, manually drag and drop the tiles where you would like them to appear on the screen.
Customize Your Modifiers
Apply modifiers to items in bulk
If you have a modifier set that applies to multiple items, you can apply it in bulk in the menu editor. Once the modifier is applied, you will see it appear beneath the item name.
To do so:
From your Menu on Square Dashboard, select Add Modifiers.
Select multiple items to which you are applying the modifier set.
Select Apply to Items.
Use Tile Functions for Fewer Taps
Dining Options, Calculator, Bill Name and Notes are stored under the Actions tab in the app. Optimize your setup for speed and put commonly used functions directly on the home screen of your menu for easy access. This allows you to create a custom order flow, reminding your staff to apply all the necessary details to an order.
Set Up Auto Add to Bill
When creating an item in the Item Library or from the Menus page, there is the option to automatically add item to a bill. This feature will allow the item to be added to the current sale with a single click to speed up the order entry process.
A good example is when modifiers or notes are not needed (i.e. a pre-packaged item like a canned drink). If you disable Automatically Add Item to Bill, you will have the option to add notes or modifiers to the item when adding it to a sale.
Note: Auto add to bill will skip over modifiers that have been added to the item. If you need to use those modifiers, in the current sale, select the item > Edit.