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Mastering Modifiers with the Prepped Platform: A Step-by-Step Guide

When managing a meal prep business, efficiency is everything. That’s why Prepped’s Modifiers Page plays a pivotal role in streamlining your menu customization process. In this blog, we will dive deep into how to effectively use modifiers, providing you with the flexibility to offer customized meal options without spending hours on redundant tasks.

What Are Modifiers?

Modifiers are customizable options that allow customers to tailor their meal choices. For instance, if you’re offering a sandwich and want customers to pick a side dish (e.g., French fries or salad), that’s a modifier. By setting up modifiers, you create a seamless experience for both your customers and your staff by streamlining choices across multiple menu items.

Why Use Modifiers?

The beauty of modifiers is that they save you time. If you offer a set of sides across multiple dishes, you only need to create the modifier once, then attach it to several menu items. This way, any future changes—like adding or updating a side—apply to all associated menu items at once.

Step-by-Step: How to Create a Modifier

  1. Label Your Modifier
    The modifier label is strictly for internal use. For instance, you may have one set of sides for breakfast items and a different set for lunch or dinner. Proper labeling ensures you’ll know exactly which modifier belongs where.

  2. Set Modifier Options
    After creating the label, you can start adding options like French fries, salad, or other sides. You also have the ability to assign an additional cost to certain options, such as charging $1 for fries and $2 for a salad.

  3. Binary Selection
    If you enable the binary option, customers can only choose one side. This is ideal when you want to limit the selection to a single option, simplifying the customer experience.

  4. Floor Price Setting
    A powerful feature in the modifier settings is the floor price. Let’s say a customer adds a menu item with a default side of French fries but then decides to remove the side altogether. With the floor price enabled, the cost remains unchanged even if no side is selected. This ensures you maintain a minimum price for your meals, which can significantly boost your revenue.

    Tip: Floor pricing is particularly beneficial in the meal prep industry, where every dollar counts. It helps vendors capture additional revenue by maintaining consistent pricing across customizations.

Customizing with Quantity Options

If you’d like to offer multiple selections (for instance, allowing a customer to choose more than one side), you can adjust the maximum quantity settings. For example, setting the maximum to “2” allows customers to order two portions of the same side, like two orders of French fries.

Binary vs. Non-Binary Settings

  • Binary Enabled: Limits customers to one selection per category (e.g., one side).
  • Binary Disabled: Allows for combinations, such as one French fry and one salad, as long as they don’t exceed the set maximum quantity.

Efficiency in Menu Updates

Once you’ve set up your modifiers, the real benefit kicks in. Modifiers, recipes, ingredients, and menu items in Prepped are all relationship-based, meaning any changes you make to a modifier are automatically updated across all connected items. This allows for efficient automation—whether you’re modifying ingredients, updating recipes, or changing sides.

If you’re someone who changes their menu frequently, this feature is a game-changer. You’ll save countless hours by only having to make a change once, rather than manually updating every menu item individually.

Key Takeaways

The Modifiers Page offers an excellent way to customize your menu, streamline customer choices, and optimize your revenue. Leveraging features like binary settings, floor price, and quantity limits, you can easily manage meal customizations while maintaining control over pricing and options. Prepped makes it easy for you to set up once and see your updates reflected across the entire platform.

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