Set Menu Visibility in the Menu Builder

In this Article:

• Menu Visibility Overview
• Set Menu Visibility
  • Menu-Level Visibility
  • Menu Group-Level Visibility
  • Menu Item-Level Visibility
• Partner-Specific Menu Visibility

Menu Visibility Overview

The menu visibility tool gives you the flexibility to adjust the menus, menu groups, and/or menu items your guests will see on their in-restaurant and online orders. For information on menu availability (to set days/times for menus to appear and not appear from your Toast Online Ordering site or POS device), visit this Toast Central article: Set Menu Availability in the Menu Builder.

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Set Menu Visibility 

Each menu, menu group, or menu item has a visibility setting under the Channel visibility section within the menu builder. The channels where the menus are visible are also where the menus are available. Options include:

• POS - in-restaurant orders placed on a terminal
  • Note: If you want certain menus to only appear on specific terminals, you can set it up as a hidden menu that is then re-enabled on your desired device. To learn more, see Configure Hidden Menus.
• Kiosk, Toast Order and Pay - in-restaurant orders placed on a kiosk, using Toast Mobile Order and Pay™, or with digital menus
  • This option may not list Kiosk if your restaurant does not use them.
• Toast Online Ordering, Local by Toast app - online orders placed on your Toast Online Ordering site or on Local by Toast (formerly known as the Toast Takeout app).
• Online ordering partners - orders placed on Toast online ordering sites that you have integrated with Toast (e.g. Uber Eats, DoorDash, or Grubhub). When you toggle this On, you'll see additional options appear that allow you to control your menu visibility settings for individual partners.
  
  
  
  This partner-specific visibility feature is currently available for select direct online ordering partners (including DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats) as well as several other integration partners. Toast is working to include all online ordering partners soon.

Note: If you're a Toast Websites user and if you need to designate menus specifically on your website's view-only menu, follow the steps described in the View-Only Menu for Websites section of this article .

Menu-Level Visibility

To set visibility on the menu level, follow these steps:

1. Begin in the Menu builder. In , navigate to Menus > Menu management > Menu builder. 
2. Find the menu you'd like to adjust on the list on the left-hand side of the menu builder screen, then using the three dots, select Edit. 
3. Scroll down to the Channel visibility section on the menu details page, and use the toggles to select which order sources should have this menu visible. When a channel is set to On, the menu group is visible on that channel to restaurant employees and guests.
   
   
   
   Restaurants using Toast Multilocation Management (MLM) will have the ability to select specific locations or location groups that the menu should be visible to for each online ordering partner. 
   
   
4. Save and publish your changes.

Menu Group-Level Visibility 

Menu group visibility can be adjusted the same way by selecting the three dot menu, selecting Edit, and then navigating to the Availability section to choose where the menu group will be visible. Save and publish any changes at the top of the page.

Menu Item-Level Visibility 

In some instances, you may want to edit the visibility of a specific menu item. 

1. Using the menu builder, navigate to the item that you would like to adjust, and select the item to open the item details page.
   
   
   
   
2. Navigate the channel visibility settings and select your desired channels.
3. At the top of the page, save and publish your changes.

Note: Unlike tax rates and prep stations, the settings for channel visibility do not let you link and unlink the configuration of a menu group or items to its parent menu or menu group. If a menu item or modifier group belongs to a menu or menu group that is hidden from view for any of the Toast channels, then the item or modifier group will also be hidden from those channels.