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Overview: As a restaurant manager, you can streamline the rollout of standardised menus across multiple sites by using Menu Templates and inheritance. This approach reduces duplication effort, ensures structural consistency, and allows efficient updates from a central template.
Start from: The Easilys menu.
- Navigate to Menus > Menu Templates.
- Select a menu to act as your parent template.
Note: Set up key parameters such as staff allocations and calendar settings on the parent before duplication.
- Use the Duplicate button.
- Select the targeted sites.
- When prompted, enable Keeping the relationship to ensure future updates propagate.
- Select Validate to initialise duplication. The system creates a menu structure on the child sites.
- Back on the main menu, navigate to Menus > Menus.
- Select the parent menu again and click Duplicate the menus to one or more sites.
- Choose Copy the templates to all its descendants to apply the parent structure across all linked child sites.
- Select Duplicate to complete the process.
Note: Existing menu data at child sites will be replaced by the parent structure if duplicated. Parental links ensure that structural updates at the parent level can be pushed automatically.