How to build & edit a menu product
(Meals 2.0)
BUILDING PRODUCTS
Main products on a menu are referred to as “Meals” within the Vita Mojo system. This article will guide you through the process of building your meal, including how to add customisations.
If you’re creating a meal from scratch, we recommend watching the product school video below and following the step-by-step guide.
Top Tip: If you already have a similar meal in Vita Mojo, use the “Copy Meal” functionality. This will save you time by allowing you to duplicate the existing meal and avoid re-entering all the information.
VITA MOJO PRODUCTS SCHOOL VIDEO
Accessing the Meals section
First, log into Management Panels 1.0 and navigate to Meals 2.0
Select Create Meal
Top Tip: If you already have a similar meal in Vita Mojo, select the existing meal from the meal list and use the “Copy Meal” functionality. This will save you time by allowing you to duplicate the existing meal and avoid re-entering all the information.
You will now see the Create Meal 2.0 view.
Our meals section is highly flexible with many fields that can be completed. However, not everything is essential. We’ve highlighted all the areas of the meals page in the below table to summarise what each field does and when its required.
The critical fields to ensure are filled out are:
- Menu Name
- Kitchen Ticket
- Size & Price
- Item Categories (if applicable)
- Nutrition (if applicable)
- Upsell Categories
Images
Step by Step guide to each section of meal page
The Meals section is highly flexible, allowing for extensive customisation. Below is a quick summary of each section and its key purpose:
- General – Meal name, description, and key identifiers.
- Meal Options – VAT settings, price display, and customer selection flow.
- Meal Size & Base Price – Define meal sizes and pricing.
- Meal Base – Nutrition, allergens, dietary info, calories, and ingredients.
- Alcohol – Required only for meals containing alcohol on delivery platforms.
- Meal Categories – Customisations and modifications (e.g., add-ons, extras).
- Upsell Categories – Selecting products to upsell alongside meals.
- Meal Deals – Offering upgrades to meal deals.
- Images – Customer and staff-facing meal images.
- Kitchen – Operational settings for kitchen workflow.
Now, let's dive into the step by step guide in more detail!
SECTION
FIELD
INFORMATION
REFERENCE IMAGE
The name of the meal displayed to staff on the kitchen display screen ticket and printed ticket.
This can be left blank if its the same as the “Name”
This is a intended for a a short, punchy, description for the meal. Displayed to the customer before they click into the meal itself. Used to add
A setting needs to be applied by Vita Mojo, so please contact the support team to have this enabled
This is the text a customer will see if the meal can be customised e.g. Extras in a burger
Left blank it defaults to ‘Customisations’ at the top of the meal. Add text if you wish to change it or speak to Vita Mojo support team to adjust default text for all meals
Essential for categorising your menu products and organising your menu! They help when needing to filter products in menu management, stock management and reporting
We are unable to delete products and items, however, if you use the tag “Archive” then this will automatically hide these products as this tag will always be selected in the Exclude Tags field.
To ensure the effectiveness of your basket recommendations, we recommend categorising all your meals with tags. If there’s anything in the basket with the same recommendation tag as a product selected for basket recommendations, that product won’t be recommended. This ensures that a more relevant product, which the customer doesn’t already have, is shown instead.
Click here for more information on basket recommendations
Category tags are used to classify menu products specifically for your business, separate from customer-facing menu categories. These tags help organise your data and are available in Analytics Live Boards for reporting and insights
Analytics by default reports on menu layout categories. So this should only be used if you wish to breakdown menu product sales reporting further.
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FIELD
INFORMATION
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Toggle ON if you have different pricing for eat in vs takeaway for the same sales channel e.g. POS or Kiosk
This is different to sales channels e.g. kiosk, click & collect. You can use pricing zones if prices by channel vary. Click here for more information on pricing zones
Toggle ON to allow a meal to be added straight to the basket without displaying additional information.
Highly recommended for non-customisable products, such as drinks, to create a seamless and frictionless ordering experience for customers.
Toggle ON if you want to show ‘From £…’ on the category page before a customer clicks into the meal. Useful for products with customisations or different sizes.
Displays full calorie amount entered in Meal Base section.
Click here for more information about calories and nutrition.
Tax-exempt
Important to check!
Toggle ON if no tax is to be paid to the meal (applied to takeaway only)
Toggle ON to exclude applying service charge from this meals cost
Only applicable if you have the service charge feature enabled
Base item takeaway tax override
Important to check!
Only applicable if you need to override the default value set up for your account for takeaway only. To override, insert the tax percentage value.
If left blank, the VAT rate applied will be the default rate set up on your account.
The default value is typically in line with your country regulations. If you unsure, please contact the support team.
Only applicable if you need to override the default value set up for your account for eat in only. To override, insert the tax percentage value.
If left blank, the VAT rate applied will be the default rate set up on your account.
The default value is typically in line with your country regulations. If you unsure, please contact the support team.
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FIELD
INFORMATION
REFERENCE IMAGE
Toggle ON if your meal has multiple sizes and enter the applicable size names visible to staff and customers. For example Small, Medium, Large
This feature allows you to manage multiple sizes in one meal rather than needing to create different versions
Select “Is Default” if you would like this size to be pre-selected when the customer clicks into the meal
Insert the price of the meal charged to the customer, inclusive of VAT.
Ensure to add for all sizes (if applicable) and eat in vs takeaway (if applicable) – see meal options section for the relevant Toggle.
The price is inclusive of VAT. Refer to the VAT fields to understand more about VAT
Meal Base
Allows you to enable nutrition, allergens, dietaries and ingredients
Toggle ON to input nutritional information, including:
- Calories
- Allergens
- Dietaries
- Ingredients
Click here for more information about how to use this section to ensure accurate information is displayed to the customer
Meal Categories
Meal has base
(recommended – if applicable)
Toggle ON to input nutritional information, including:
- Calories
- Allergens
- Dietaries
- Ingredients
Click here for more information about how to use this section to ensure accurate information is displayed to the customer
This feature allows you to upsell other meals that are already on your menu. For example, you can display a selection of pastries as an upsell option when a customer orders a coffee.
Important: Before adding upsells, make sure you have created your upsell categories. Click here for more information on how to build an upsell category.
Toggle ON if you want to offer a meal deal upsell within a meal. For example, a customer ordering a coffee can see the option to buy it alone or upgrade to a meal deal that includes coffee plus other products. Click here to find out more about each field to complete.
Important: Before adding upsell options for meal deals, ensure you have created your meal deal. Click here for more information on how to build a meal deal.
Click upload image to add the meal image that will be displayed on all customer facing menus.
Image specifications are provided in the section within the meal. Further information can also be found here
optional
Click upload image to add the meal image that will be displayed on all staff point of sale menus.
Image specifications are provided in the section within the meal. Further information can also be found here
Select the relevant kitchen station if you wish to send meals to different areas of your kitchen.
Important: Before adding the kitchen station, ensure you have created your kitchen stations options. Click here for more information on how to create kitchen stations
Toggle ON if you want the meal to bypass the kitchen and move straight to a “ready to collect” status. Useful for anything which a customer may grab themselves or is by the pick up station for staff
Important: This is customisable by channel