Getting started
Setting up your menu
The menu is the only thing your diner sees, so you build all of it before putting a QR code on any table. You do it from the panel, in the venue's page, and you check it on a phone the way a customer would.
Categories first, items after
A category is each block the customer sees: «To share», «From the sea», «Desserts». Create them in the order you want them shown, because that order is what gets rendered. An item always belongs to a category, so there is no way to create a loose one.
Prices are in cents and your server sets them
Enter the final price the customer pays, tax included. Brío stores amounts in cents so rounding errors never accumulate, and recalculates the total against your catalogue every time somebody goes to pay. Only references and quantities travel from the phone, never amounts: a customer cannot change what they pay by touching their screen.
Options: what the customer chooses
Option groups cover how the meat is done, the type of milk, the side dish or the extras. Each group decides whether choosing is required and how many options fit, and each option can add to the price. You then assign them to the items that use them, so one group serves the whole menu without repeating it.
Published and available are not the same
«Published» decides whether the item is part of the menu. «Available» decides whether it can be ordered right now. Leave unpublished whatever you are still preparing; for a dish that ran out mid-service, keep it published and only remove availability, so it comes back without creating it again.
Check it on a phone, not on the desktop
Menus are read standing up, one-handed and on a poor connection. Open it on a small phone and check the order, the prices, the photos, the allergens and the basket total. What looks roomy on a large screen may take three swipes on a five-inch one.
Before calling it done
- Categories appear in the order you want.
- Every price is the final one, tax included.
- Required options do not let you continue without choosing.
- The menu reads well on a small phone.