After having created A list of sales items we can now place them in a menu for use at the POS. The system support up to 50 separate menus ranging in numbers from 01 to 50. Each menu is a different view of the same list of sales items. If for example the store only vends a subset of sales items at a station only those items need be included in the menu for that station.

Menu operations are divided into 2 categories. The first operates on menu as a whole. The second operates on items within a menu. The following describes the creation and maintenance of Menus.

Menus Operations

• No.: This field is used to enter the number of the menu you wish to work with. If the menu exists you can select it from the list of menus just to the right of this field.
• Delete: This option will remove a menu from the system. The menu number is input in the "No." field.
• Safety: If you wish to retrieve the last safety copy of a menu, enter the menu number in the "No." field and press this button. Safety copies of a menu are created each time you load or update a menu. This copy can be retrieved at any time during and editing session.
• Copy: This option is used to copy the contents of one menu to another, Enter the menu number that you want to copy in the "From" filed and enter the number of the new menu in the "To" field. The press the "Copy" button to copy the From menu to the To menu.
• Rename: If you wish to renumber a menu, enter the source menu number into the "From" filed and enter the destination number in the "To" field. Press the Rename button to have the changes take effect.

Presentation & Movement

 Before we cover the options available for manipulating menu items let us digress for a moment to explain the menu presentation and movement principals.

Pages: The POS can display 96 items or Cells per level broken into 4 pages of 24 items each. Using the Page Down and Page Up buttons will display the next or previous page of 24 items respectively.

Levels: When the POS first displays the menu it is said that we are at the first level. Pressing a Heading item will load another set of items or headings. This step can be repeated till we are at level 4. At level 4 only menu items can be displayed. Headings have no meaning at this level since there are no more levels to move to.

The example on the left shows the 4 pages of 24 items that can be accessed from a Level.  The example on the right shows each new level that was access by pressing the heading from the level above.

Menu items are made up of 3 basic types.

• Headings: Headings are used to provide access to other headings or items and moves the server down one level. Choosing a head to access sub menus.
• Items: Items are the final items that will sold from the POS. Choosing an item will add this item to the order.
• Display: Display items are used to fill in space. The POS naturally tries to move items and headings together removing empty spaces. This is done for items that exists in the menu but may no longer be available for sales for any number of reasons. To force the POS to leave empty spaces insert a "Display" item in these spaces.

Menu Items

To add a Sales item to the menu, simply select an item from the sales list and touch a cell in the menu area. doing so will create a new item in the menu. Title items from the Sales list will be converted to Headings in the menu. Regular items are placed on the menu as a Sale Item. Assembly and Include type Sale items are not permitted to be placed in a menu.

Menu items are saved at the time you place them. To add a "Display" item, press the edt button and touch a menu cell. The edit screen will become active. Choose the item type "Display" and save your changes. (See below for more details).

Edit: Used to edit menu item information. Press the "Edit" button and press a menu item. Add or change the information as required and press "Save" to record your changes.

• Use: indicates the type of menu item. 3 types are provided.
• Heading: Used to indicate more items are available under the heading.
• Item: A final sale item.
• Display: Used to consume a cell space.
• POS 1/2: Used to describe this item on the POS.
• Station: Used to indicate that this item is only to appear at a specific station.
• Color: Select the color to be used to display the menu item.
• Code: This is the sales code that this item refers to..
• Status: The status determines how the item will interpret the Start/Finish times and Days fields. The following status are available;
• Active Time: The item will be active during the date/time fields settings.
• Active Not Time: The item will not be active during the date/time fields settings.
• Pending Time: The item will not be active during the date/time fields settings.
• Pending Not Time:  Currently not supported.
• Start: The time that a menu item will become active at the POS. A blank line indicates All times.
• Finish: The time that a menu item will no longer be active at the POS. A blank line indicates All times.
• Days: The days that the item will be active at the POS. A blank line indicates All days.
• Security: If active only a manager can access this item.

Show: Used to view item information. Press the "Show" button and press menu to view its contents. The menu item information will be displayed in the Edit screen.

Delete: Used to remove a menu item from from the Menu. Press the "Delete" button and press a menu item. You will be prompted to Remove the item and prompted again if want to remove the empty space that would normally be left on the screen.

Copy: Used to copy item information from one location to another. Press the "Copy" button the enter the copy mode. Press the menu item you wish to copy and press the location of the new menu item.

Move: Used to move a menu item to another location. Press the "Move" button and press a menu item. The item will be removed from the screen. Press a menu cell to insert the menu item to that location.

Insert: Used to insert a new menu item. Press the "Insert" button and press a menu cell . Other cells will be moved to the right and a new space will be made available.

Assign: Used to copy information from the edit screen to menu items. Press the "Assign" button. Enter the information you want to copy to menu items in the Edit screen. Now press the menu items you want to assign the information to.

Sort: Used to sort item alphabetically. Press the "Sort" button.

Safety: Used to re-load the original menu contents to your working copy.

Francias: Used to change working language from English to French and back.

All Days: Use to change the menu programs idea of the current day. This is useful to test dated items.

All Times: Use to change the menu programs idea of the current time. This is useful to test timed items.

Options: The following options are available;

• Title Case: Used to fix the Sale code title and POS description to Title case print.
• Upper Case: Used to fix the Sale code title and POS description to Upper case print.
• Lower Case: Used to fix the Sale  code title and POS description to Lower case print.

Search: Used to find an item in the lists. Enter some information in the line below the search button and
press Enter. The system will look through the list and highlight the firsts occurrence of you search. Press
"Search" again to keep searching through the list or "Cancel" to stop.

Cancel: Used to exit an edit mode or if no mode is selected it will return you to the menu operations mode.