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Running it day to day

Draft and published, sold out, specials, reordering.

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Draft and published

Every dish is either published or a draft. Published dishes appear on your menu; drafts don't. Use the toggle on each dish to switch between them.

One exception. A draft with special days set appears on its own on those days, then disappears again. Set up a "catch of the day" once and it surfaces every Friday without you touching it.

Sold out

Marking a dish sold out doesn't hide it. It dims the dish and adds a Sold Out badge, so diners can see you serve it, just not tonight. If you'd rather it vanished entirely, set it back to draft instead.

Specials

A dish can have a special price on chosen days of the week. Check "This item is a special", set the price, then pick the days. On those days it shows the reduced price with the original struck through, and appears in a Today's Specials banner at the top of your menu.

A special price with no days selected does nothing. The day checkboxes only appear after you check "This item is a special", and they're easy to scroll past, so the form won't let you save a special price without at least one day.

Sold-out dishes stay out of the specials banner. Advertising a discount on something you haven't got annoys people.

Reordering

Drag dishes to reorder them within a section. For the sections themselves, use Administration → Menu Order. The order you set is the order diners see.