A la carte offerings in the MealTime application are menu items priced and sold separately from standard reimbursable meals, such as breakfast bars, juice boxes and pizza slices. The A La Carte page allows you to create a la carte offerings, set pricing and enable diet restrictions to alert cashiers when using the POS Console for service.
Because Diet Restrictions are components of A La Carte offerings, it's recommended to create or modify those first. Once an a la carte offering has been created, it can be edited but cannot be removed from MealTime.
-> Go To: Point of Sale > SETTINGS > Meals and Food Items > A La Carte
Add or Edit an A La Carte offering
| 1. Select the a la carte offering you want to edit from the list/search window and click Edit or, click the Add button to create a new offering. |
| 2. Enter the *A La Carte Name. |
| 3. Enter the A La Carte Description. |
| 4. Set a *Price for the offering. |
| Since a la carte offerings are not reimbursable, they are priced the same for all grades and price groups. |
| 5. If sales tax is required to be added at the time of sale, check the Sales Tax box. |
| Note! In some cases, school districts charge sales tax separately for adult meals and a la carte items. Check with your district before enabling this function. |
| 6. For weighed and bulk a la carte offerings, check the box for Price When Served. This will prompt the cashier to enter a price for the offering at the time of service instead of using the set price. |
| 7. Select the Diet Restrictions that apply to the a la carte offering by checking the appropriate boxes. |
| When Diet Restrictions are associated with an offering, an alert message will be presented to the cashier when serving the item to a customer with enabled diet restrictions. These can be enabled individually on the Customer Information page or via import. |
| 8. Click Save to save the offering or Cancel to cancel a la carte offering creation. |
