Use modifiers to create options that allow your guests to remove, add or change your menu items. This article will teach you how.

Modifiers allow customers the opportunity to add, remove or modify menu items for their order. Some POS systems call them variants or options.

To apply modifiers to one or more of your menu items, they must be collected together in a modifier group. The modifier group will control the different ordering rules and how the modifier options are shown to your customer.

Common use cases:

• Add items e.g. adding extra bacon or a hash brown to a burger
• Remove items e.g. remove the bacon from a salad
• Make a choice e.g. select the preferred garnish in a gin and tonic
• Cooking styles e.g. choose between bleu, rare, medium, well done; or scrambled, fried and poached.

Topics

• Modifiers in a nutshell
• How to create a modifier option
• How to edit a modifier option
• How to create a modifier group
• Finding and editing a modifier group
• How to attach or remove a modifier group from a menu item

Modifiers in a nutshell

1. Manage all of your modifiers under Your menu > Modifiers
2. Populate your database with all of your desired modifier options
3. Create a modifier group and enter the ordering rules
4. Link your modifier options that will be available to the group
5. Link what menu items you'd like the modifier group to appear on

And viola! You're ready to go. 

How to create a modifier option

1. Go to Your menu > Modifiers
2. Click the Modifier options tab
3. Click Create new modifier
4. Fill in the required details
5. Click Create option

How to edit a modifier option

1. Go to Your menu > Modifiers
2. Click the Modifier options tab
3. Search for the modifier option
4. Hover over the row and click the Edit icon
5. Make your desired changes
6. Click Save changes 

How to create a modifier group

1. Go to Your menu > Modifiers
2. Click Create modifier group
3. Fill in the details and click Save and continue to create the group
4. You'll automatically be taken to the Modifier options tab
5. Click Add modifier option to add the options available in the group
6. Click the Linked menu items tab
7. Click Link menu items to choose menu items that the group should appear on
8. When you're done simply click the arrow in the top left corner

Finding and editing a modifier group

1. Go to Your menu > Modifiers
2. Manually look through the list, or use the search bar to quickly find a group
3. You can expand and collapse a modifier group to easily see it's modifier options
4. Click Edit to change details, add new options or link the group to more menu items
5. If you're making a change under the Details tab, be sure to click Save to commit your changes

How to attach or remove a modifier group from a menu item

In me&u this action is called linking. If you want to affect many items at once then this is best done by editing the modifier group from the Modifiers page.

1. Go to Your menu > Modifiers
2. Click Edit on the group you'd like to attach/remove
3. Click the Linked menu items tab
4. To remove a menu item, click the Cross icon on the same row
5. To link a menu item with the group, click Link menu items

Or you can control what groups are linked to a menu item from within the item.

1. Go to Your menu > Menu items
2. Find desired item and click it to edit
3. Click View item modifiers and upsells
4. To attach a group, select an existing modifier group from Link modifier group
5. To remove a group, click the Unlink icon next to the modifier group's name