March 22nd 2023, Release Notes | RME | Single-Ingredient Recipes, New Report. GET Nutrition, More Precision in API Responses – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal

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Single-Ingredient Recipes, New Creation Option

Simple workflow to allow the creation of a 'single-ingredient recipe'

Recipe Menu Description and Kcal per Serving, New Report

New Recipe Report

Ingredient and Recipes API Change

Precision extended in responses to more places after the decimal point

Release date for all features: March 22nd 2023

Single Ingredient Recipe Creation

Enabled by Default? - No
Set up by customer Admin? - Yes
Enable via Support ticket? - No
Affects configuration or data? - No
Roles Affected: - Recipe creators of drinks and retail products

What's Changing?

It is now possible to create a 'single ingredient recipe' without leaving the main Ingredient screen. The new recipe is a 'standard' recipe with all the related functionality available to standard recipes.

Reason for the Change

Increase ease of use, particularly for recipe creators of 'Drinks' and 'Retail Product' recipes.

Customers Affected

Optional. Available to all customers.

Release Note Info/Steps

There are four permissions that control the single-ingredient recipe functionality.

1. Enable the new button

Access to the new functionality is controlled by a new user group permission - Create single-ingredient recipe - located in the 'Recipe Permissions' section
The existing Create public permission must also be enabled

The new permission will be available but 'disabled' by default in existing user groups.

Fig.1 - New 'Create single-ingredient recipe' permission

Once enabled, a new Create Recipe button will appear in the ingredient 'action button' row.

fig.2 - New 'Create Recipe' button in ingredient action button row

2. Ensure visibility of recipe pricing information

To see the recipe selling price fields in the new 'create recipe' window, the recipe permission View pricing information must be enabled

Fig.3 - Recipe permission 'View pricing information' is required to see recipe selling price fields

3. Control which recipe selling price field is displayed in the new 'create recipe' window (two possible permissions/two possible selling price fields)

To display 'Target Sell Price (inc.)' which corresponds to 'Target Sell Price calculator, Sell Price (inc)' on the recipe record, enable the recipe permission Allow save target sell price.

Fig.4 - Recipe permission 'Allow save target sell price' is required to see recipe selling price field Target Sell price (inc.)

Fig.5 -Target Sell Price (inc.) field in 'Create Single Ingredient Recipe' window (left image) corresponds to 'Target Sell Price Calculator, Sell Price ('inc.) in main recipe record (right image)

To display 'Sell Price (inc.)' which corresponds to 'Default FnB Site Sell Price, Sell Price (inc.), enable the recipe permission Allow suggested sell price

Fig.6 - Recipe permission 'Allow suggested sell price' is required to see recipe selling price field Sell price (inc.)

Fig.7 -Sell Price (inc.) field in 'Create Single Ingredient Recipe' window (left image) corresponds to 'Default FnB Site Sell Price, Sell Price ('inc.) in main recipe record (right image)

To display both fields, enable both permissions.

Create the Recipe

From within the desired ingredient, select Create Recipe
In the new window that opens, add recipe values as required - mandatory values are marked with an asterisk *
- Name *
- Description
- Menu Description
- Short Name - possibly mandatory, depends on global settings
- UoM * - this is the recipe ingredient UoM for the new recipe, e.g. ML (millilitres)
- Quantity * - this is the recipe ingredient quantity for the new recipe, e.g. 175
- Target Sell price (inc.) - corresponds to 'Target Sell Price Calculator, Sell price (inc.)
- Sell price (inc.) - corresponds to 'Default FnB Site Sell Price, Sell price (inc.)

Permissions, described above, will determine which 'Sell Price' value will be displayed and populated when the recipe is saved.

- Suggested PLU - if the global setting has been enabled, validation will be applied to the PLU to prevent duplication
- Category Type - the categories available here in the drop-down list are existing recipe categories. If the global setting has been enabled, a 'SMART' category will be mandatory
- Category - the values available in this drop-down list are main and sub categories that are associated to the selected Category Type

Other global settings that, if enabled, will impact the 'single-ingredient' recipe's values

Set Standard Recipe Portion Size to 1 each
Recipe ingredient wastage set by default

Fig.9 - New recipe creation window has only three mandatory fields for recipe creation