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Overview: As the manager of a restaurant, you need to add components to a recipe to ensure that forecasted requirements and costs are accurate.
Start from: The Easilys menu.
Select Recipes in the main menu > Recipe management.
In the components section, you have three options for adding components:
- + Recipe: Adds a recipe. This is known as a "sub-recipe".
- + Ingredient: Adds a generic ingredient.
- + Product: Adds a specific product.
Note: It is recommended to add generic ingredients rather than specific products. When adding a product to your recipe, if it is no longer available for order, your recipe becomes unusable until it is updated.
If you instead add a generic ingredient by selecting + Ingredient, then the problem won't arise if you've attached the same generic ingredient to several different products.
If one of these products is no longer available to order, Easilys will select another product (attached to the generic ingredient) to enhance the recipe or help you prepare your orders.
Once you've listed the components of your recipe, you can administer the component table to indicate quantities.
- Name: Component name.
- Main? By ticking the box, you indicate that this is a main element of the recipe, without which you won't be able to produce it.
- Qty (Net): Allows you to enter the quantity of the component required to produce the recipe.
- Fixed? By checking this box, you indicate to Easilys that you do not want the number of pieces per portion/pieces of the recipe to change according to the recipe weight.
Example: Let's take spaghetti Bolognese, with a basic weight of 100g. The recipe calls for 3 meatballs weighing 30g each for 1 portion.
This recipe is put on a menu for children for whom the net weigh is 66.7g instead of 100g.
If you don't tick the Fixed? box, the menu recipe will indicate that you need (3*66/100)= 2 meatballs of 30g +/- the tolerance.
If you tick the Fixed? box, the menu recipe will indicate that you need 3 meatballs of (30*66.7/100)= 20.1g +/- tolerance.
- Price: When you activate the recipe simulator, a simulation of the cost of the component will appear by selecting the cheapest supplier (unless a specific rule is set in "Smart Selection").
- Pack.? The box only appears for sub-recipes. Checking this box tells Easilys that the component is packaged separately from the rest of the recipe. This information will be included in the Packaging and Logistics reports.
Example: I'm creating a recipe for mixed salad. I add the Vinaigrette sub-recipe to its components and check the Pack.? box. to indicate that this dressing is packaged separately from the salad.
- Tags: Add a tag to qualify a recipe component.
Note: Tags are generally used to indicate which elements should or should not be produced. This allows you to include or exclude recipe components when generating production reports.