Last updated: Nov 12, 2025, 12:30 PM
Pre-modifiers give you the ability to add text either before (prefix) or after (suffix) a modifier. For example, with a Tomato modifier, you can set up pre-modifiers to enter variations such as:
Pre-modifiers are a standard feature of the Toast POS system. When you create a modifier group, you can create a set of pre-modifiers such as NO, SUB, ADD, EXTRA, or ON SIDE to easily notify the kitchen of modifications to an item that has many ingredients, such as a burger or a salad.
Watch the video overview or read the instructions in this article to set up and use pre-modifiers for your menu.
Note: Pre-modifiers are not supported in the Toast Online Ordering module. Pre-modifiers will print on kitchen tickets and are best used in-house to quickly modify orders and reduce the number of modifier groups a server will interact with.
How to set up and use pre-modifiers in your menus.
First, you'll need to create a pre-modifier group. This process is similar to creating regular modifier groups.
Note: If you have a pre-modifier that should remove the price of the modifier it's attached to (such as NO or LIGHT), make sure that the Multiply Price? setting is set to zero (0). For example, if a guest would like to exclude cheese from their sandwich, create a pre-modifier group that includes "NO" as an option. If cheeses are $2.99, selecting NO as the pre-modifier would multiply the $2.99 cost by zero, which would mean that the guest would not be paying money for cheese.
In the same way, you could increase the price of a modifier if you want to use "EXTRA" or "DOUBLE" as a pre-modifier option. If the Multiply Price? setting is set to two (2), it would double the price of a modifier when the EXTRA pre-modifier is selected. If the Pickles modifier costs $0, EXTRA Pickles would still cost $0. If the Cheese modifier costs $1, EXTRA Cheese would cost $2.
After creating pre-modifier groups and options, the next step is to assign them to a modifier group.
If you'd like the ability to select multiple pre-modifiers, be sure to enable multi-select on the modifier level by indicating that more than one option can be chosen and, enable duplicate modifiers. This will allow you to select multiple pre-modifiers and modifier options should a customer say they want both "NO Pickle" and "Ketchup ON SIDE". For more instructions, see .
Here's an example of a menu item that has no pre-modifiers configured:
This is what it would look like to servers if pre-modifiers are configured: