- About Production Areas
- Who Manages Production Areas and Menu Item Assignments?
- About Items that do not need to be Produced
About Production Areas
A production area is where menu items are assigned to upon ordering. For example, a “hot” production area to prepare cooked items and a “cold” production area to prepare non-cooked items items.
Production Areas and Production Reports
When you generate production reports (either in the Core system or the Touch app), you can choose what menu items to include on the reports based on the production areas.
Production Areas and KMS Food Preparation Stations
A KMS food preparation station is assigned production areas to display or print tickets of those menu items assigned to the production areas.
Food preparation stations are configured in the Touch Admin software. Part of the configuration is associating them with a production area. See Adding a KMS station for instructions on configuring food preparation stations and associating production areas.
Who Manages Production Areas and Menu Item Assignments?
By default, a parent account (i.e., corporate account) owns the production areas and menu items assignments. As such, any changes by the parent account to the production areas and menu item assignment will flow down to its child accounts (i.e., facility accounts). This scenario is ideal to help child accounts get started with production areas and menu item assignments rather than as a means for the parent account to maintain data for its child accounts on a permanent basis.
When a child account is ready, it can then take ownership of the production areas and menu item assignments. When doing so, any changes from the parent account to production areas and menu item assignment no longer flow down to the child account.
Instructions for a child account to take ownership of production areas and menu item assignment, can be found here: Taking Ownership of Production Area Management from Parent Account.
About Items that do not need to be Produced
By default, items that do not need to be produced, such as juice, soda, broths, supplements, equipment, etc., and therefore not assigned to a production area, are still listed on a production report in a section titled “Unassigned”.
To not have an “Unassigned” section on your report, you can create an appropriate production area such as “No Production” and assign the non-produced items to that "No Production" production area. Prior to generating the production report, you will not select the "No Production" area in the base settings of the productions reports to prevent its items from printing on the report.
For more information, see Removing Items from Production Report that do not need to be Produced