Notes & disclaimers

Sometimes a dish needs a little extra explanation, or the whole menu needs a heads-up: “prices include cover”, “kitchen closes at 22:00”, “ask us about allergens”. Eighty-Six gives you two tools for this. Notes are small coloured callout boxes you can pin anywhere on your menu. The frozen-products disclaimer is a single line of legal text that shows at the bottom of every menu. Both appear on the menu your guests see.

Before you begin

Menu notes and the frozen-products disclaimer both live on the Menu page in the CRM. Available on plans that include the Menu builder. You need permission to edit the menu (menus.update) to add notes or change the disclaimer. As the restaurant owner you have every permission by default; an employee needs it granted to them.

What a note is

A note is a small highlighted box that sits on your menu. Each note has a kind that sets its colour and icon:

• Info — blue, for neutral information.
• Warning — amber, for something guests should be careful about.
• Tip — green, for a friendly suggestion.

Every note is anchored to one place on the menu — the whole menu, a single category, or a single dish — and sits either at the Top or the Bottom of that place. So a warning can hang under one dish, while a general note can float at the top of the whole menu.

Notes appear as coloured boxes on the menu, anchored to a menu, category, or dish.

Add a note

Where you start decides what the note is anchored to.

1. Open Menu from the sidebar.
2. Add the note where you want it:
   • For a note on the whole menu, click Add menu note in the top-right actions.
   • For a category note, open the category and click Add Note at the bottom of its card.
   • For a dish note, click the note icon on the dish’s card.
3. In the dialog, pick a Kind (Info, Warning, or Tip) and a Position (Top or Bottom).
4. Type the note text in Body. This is required — the Save button stays off until you add some.
5. Optionally add a Title, choose a custom Color, turn Show icon off, or set the note as hidden with Visible to customers.
6. Check the Preview at the top, then click Save.

The note form. The preview at the top updates as you edit, so you see exactly what guests will see.

A few things worth knowing:

• The Anchored to line at the top of the dialog tells you whether the note is attached to the menu, a category, or an item.
• If you add a Title, it replaces the default kind label (INFO, WARNING, TIP). Leave it blank to keep the label.
• Color overrides the kind’s default colour. Click Reset to go back to the kind default.
• Body holds up to 1,000 characters. If your restaurant serves guests in more than one language, you can add a translation for the title and body right in the form.

Manage a note

Each note on the menu has three small buttons:

• The eye icon shows or hides the note from guests, without deleting it.
• The pencil icon opens the note for editing.
• The trash icon deletes it. You will be asked to confirm, and deleting cannot be undone.

Tip

Hiding a note with the eye icon is perfect for seasonal messages — turn a “Christmas menu available” note off in January and back on next December instead of rewriting it.

The frozen-products disclaimer

Many regions require you to tell guests when an ingredient has been frozen. Eighty-Six has a built-in disclaimer for exactly this. When it is on, a single line of text appears at the bottom of every menu, and you mark the frozen ingredients yourself by adding an asterisk (*) next to them in your dish names.

The frozen-products disclaimer panel on the Menu page.

1. On the Menu page, expand the Frozen products disclaimer panel.
2. Turn on Show the disclaimer on the menu.
3. Leave the text box empty to use the standard wording, or type your own text to replace it.
4. If you serve guests in more than one language, fill in the box for each language. Leaving one empty falls back to the default text.
5. Click Save.

Caution

The disclaimer only tells guests what an asterisk means — it does not add asterisks for you. Remember to put an asterisk (*) next to each frozen ingredient in your dish names, or guests will not know which dishes it refers to.

The disclaimer setting applies to your whole restaurant, so it shows on every menu at once rather than per menu.

Related

• Menus overview