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Toast POS Menu Build Sheet for a Restaurant Opening: Menu Groups, Modifier Groups, Pricing, and Prep Station Routing
Turn a printed menu and kitchen layout into a Toast POS build sheet before opening day: menus and menu groups, items, shared modifier groups with min and max selections, size and time pricing, sales categories, tax, and prep station routing.
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Prompt
Act as a restaurant POS implementation consultant who builds Toast menus for new openings. You build the menu once, the way the kitchen actually fires it, so servers are not hunting for buttons and tickets reach the right station. Inputs: - The menu as printed, with prices and any choice or add-on text: [MenuText] - Kitchen and bar stations, and which screens or printers they use: [Stations] - Sales categories the owner wants on reports (Food, N/A Beverage, Beer, Wine, Liquor): [SalesCategories] - Tax rules the accountant gave you, including anything taxed differently: [TaxRules] - Service periods and anything only sold in one of them: [Dayparts] - Ordering channels to support at launch (POS, online ordering, kiosk): [Channels] - Output format: [Format] - Language: [Lang] Generate: 1. Menu structure. Propose the Toast menus and menu groups from MenuText and Dayparts, in the order servers will tap them. Explain any group you split or merged. 2. Item rows as a build sheet table: menu group, item name (POS button name kept short), price or pricing strategy (base price, size price, time-specific price), sales category, tax rate, prep station, and the modifier groups attached. 3. Modifier groups. For every choice in MenuText, write a modifier group with its options, option prices, and selection rules (required or optional, minimum and maximum). Mark groups that should be shared across items so a price change happens once. 4. Prep station routing. Map every item and any modifier that needs its own ticket line to Stations, and say what Expo sees. Flag items that need two stations. 5. Channel settings from Channels: which items or groups are hidden online, which are alcohol and need the restaurant's alcohol rules, and naming that reads well to guests online. 6. Pre-opening test script: ring ten test orders that hit every modifier group and station, void them, and check the sales category and tax lines on the test report. Constraints: - Only items and prices that appear in MenuText; mark any missing price as PRICE NEEDED. - Use tax rates exactly as given in TaxRules; do not supply a rate yourself. - Use Toast terms (menu, menu group, item, modifier group, modifier option, prep station, sales category); if a setting name may differ in the owner's Toast version, say so. - No em dashes.
Instructions
Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
MenuText: TACOS (choice of corn or flour tortilla, flour +0.50; pick one salsa: verde, roja, habanero). Carne asada 4.50, Al pastor 4.25, Hongos 4.00. Add guacamole 1.50, add cheese 0.75. BURRITO 11.00, choose protein: carne asada, al pastor, hongos. LUNCH COMBO (11 to 3 only): 2 tacos plus agua fresca 12.00. HORCHATA 16 oz 3.50, 24 oz 4.50. MEXICAN LAGER bottle 6.00 Stations: Grill KDS, Cold line KDS (salsas, guac, drinks), Bar printer, Expo KDS SalesCategories: Food, N/A Beverage, Beer TaxRules: one rate called Sales Tax applies to everything here; accountant set it up already Dayparts: Lunch 11 to 3, Dinner 3 to 10 Channels: POS and online ordering at launch Format: tables Lang: English
Example Output
1. Menu structure Menu: All Day. Groups in tap order: Tacos, Burritos, Drinks, Beer. Menu: Lunch (available 11:00 to 15:00). Group: Lunch Combos. Lunch Combo sits in its own menu so it disappears at 3 automatically instead of relying on servers. 2. Items | Group | Button | Price | Sales cat | Tax | Station | Modifier groups | | Tacos | Asada Taco | 4.50 base | Food | Sales Tax | Grill | Tortilla, Taco Salsa, Taco Add-ons | | Tacos | Pastor Taco | 4.25 base | Food | Sales Tax | Grill | Tortilla, Taco Salsa, Taco Add-ons | | Tacos | Hongos Taco | 4.00 base | Food | Sales Tax | Grill | Tortilla, Taco Salsa, Taco Add-ons | | Burritos | Burrito | 11.00 base | Food | Sales Tax | Grill | Burrito Protein | | Drinks | Horchata | size price: 16 oz 3.50, 24 oz 4.50 | N/A Beverage | Sales Tax | Cold line | none | | Beer | Mexican Lager | 6.00 base | Beer | Sales Tax | Bar | none | | Lunch Combos | Lunch Combo | 12.00 base | Food | Sales Tax | Grill | Combo Taco 1, Combo Taco 2, Agua Fresca | 3. Modifier groups | Group | Options and price | Rule | Shared | | Tortilla | Corn 0.00, Flour 0.50 | required, min 1 max 1 | yes, all tacos and combo tacos | | Taco Salsa | Verde, Roja, Habanero, all 0.00 | required, min 1 max 1 | yes | | Taco Add-ons | Guacamole 1.50, Cheese 0.75 | optional, min 0 max 2 | yes | | Burrito Protein | Carne Asada, Al Pastor, Hongos, all 0.00 | required, min 1 max 1 | no | | Combo Taco 1 and 2 | Asada, Pastor, Hongos, each with Tortilla and Taco Salsa nested | required, min 1 max 1 each | uses shared Tortilla and Salsa | | Agua Fresca | PRICE NEEDED: flavors not listed on the menu | required, min 1 max 1 | no | 4. Prep station routing - Tacos, Burrito, combo tacos: Grill. - Guacamole add-on: also route to Cold line, since guac is plated there; the taco itself stays on Grill. This item needs two stations. - Horchata and Agua Fresca: Cold line. - Mexican Lager: Bar printer. - Expo KDS receives every food item so the expediter can bump complete orders. 5. Channels - Online ordering: show Tacos, Burritos, Drinks, Lunch Combos. Mark Mexican Lager as alcohol and follow the restaurant's alcohol rules for online orders, or hide it at launch. - Online names read as full words: Carne Asada Taco, Al Pastor Taco, Mushroom (Hongos) Taco. 6. Pre-opening test script 1. Asada taco, flour, habanero, add guac and cheese. 2. Two Hongos tacos, corn, verde. 3. Burrito al pastor. 4. Horchata 24 oz and a Mexican Lager. 5. Lunch combo at 2:55 and again after 3 to confirm it disappears. Repeat across both servers' logins to reach ten orders, void all, then check the test report for Food, N/A Beverage, and Beer lines with Sales Tax applied. Open question for the owner: agua fresca flavors and whether they are sold outside the combo.