Combo Slot

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Last updated: Aug 06, 2024 by Augusto Romao, Vinicius
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Overview

What is a Combo Slot?

A Combo Slot is a document that will always be tagged to a combo and will contain a set of items where the user can choose in order to build their combo. When you select a combo you know what main item you are going to get but not which side or drink, as there is a wide variety you can choose from. Comboslots will host all the options for each of these characteristics (Sides, Drinks…) to make the UI more user friendly. The reason we create this in a new document rather than in the combo document itself is because we want the user to be able to select only one or multiple of those items but not all (for example, you will have one comboslot that is Medium Sides and one that is Medium Drinks).

When you sell Meals, chances are you usually provide similar options to your guests. For example, selling Meals of a Whopper, Big King, or Double Cheeseburger will typically not change the fact that you offer the same Sides (Fries, Onion Rings, etc.) and Drinks (Coca-Cola, Fanta, etc.)

For that reason, we have created a simple way for you to configure Combo Slots that then can be mapped to your Combos. This way, you configure once your options and then apply to all the different Combos, instead of adding the same 20 drinks and sides, one by one, to every different Combo.

Editing Combo Slots

Name

This is the name of the combo that will show in the platform, so must be edited according to your marketing guidelines.

Internal Name

The name that will be displayed in Sanity - it will help you quickly identify and organize your pickers.

Minimum Amount

This is the minimum combo slot options that are required for this combo slot to be fulfilled. You might want your users to choose more than one option, or even accept zero selections.

Maximum Amount

This is the maximum combo slot options that are allowed for this combo slot to be fulfilled.

Respect Maximum

If this is false maximum amount for the combo slot will be ignored.

Options

These are all of the combo slot options for a particular combo slot.

Each Option should be mapped to the corresponding Item.

Is Premium Item

 

 

This will be used in case you want to set an item in the combo slot as an upsell option so we need to charge extra for it.

Example:

  • Drinks Combo slot:

    • Coke (Option)

    • Fanta (Option)

    • Sprite (Option)

    • Chocolate Shake (Option - Premium Item)

 

Variations

UI Example

 

Variations

UI Example

 

1

 

Regular

 

2

 

Premium

 

 

 

Option Visibility Settings

Is this applicable with Menu Redesign @Artiaga, Patricia ?

 

Vendor Configs

The reason for this is your POS vendor wont have a PLU for Medium Sides, they would have a PLU for Medium Fries. We want to ensure that the POS reads the correct information, and setting it to ignore will tell the system that it needs to read the PLU of the item the user has chosen in the comb slot.

 

 

 

Unique to Popeyes, Bone-In Chicken requires we structure as Combo Slots with the components as the default cuts for the item. Guests are unable to modify this in any way.

Item as a Combo Slot in Menu due to Varying Vendor Requirements