Tracking allergens has become a necessity for restaurants, and MarginEdge provides a straightforward way to trace and view those! You define your list of allergens and mark which products contain which allergens. Then any recipe that uses those products as ingredients will automatically get flagged and automatically stay updated if any ingredients change. Mark it once on a product and it will automatically create a list of every applicable recipe!
- Which Allergens Do You Want to Trace?
- Associate Products with those Allergens
- View all Allergens across Recipes
Which Allergens Do You Want to Trace?
First step: Create your list of allergens.
From Recipes > Setup, click on "Manage Allergens".
From there, you can add as many allergens as you want to track.
Associate Products with those Allergens
Second step: Associate the allergen with a product.
To do this, use the Products page to find the product, then click the "Edit Product" button. On the Edit Product page, a "Manage Allergens" button on the bottom right of the page allows you to associate one or more allergens to that product.
When you click on this, a box will pop up and you can select from all the allergens you have created. The changes will show across any recipes that include this product.
Once you have your desired allergens in the system, and products that have allergens associated with them, every recipe will give you a list of allergens based on the products added to the recipe!
View Allergens across Recipes
Allergen Matrix
You can generate a full allergen matrix when printing your recipes
Go to Recipes > Menu Items/Prepared Items/Bar Items. Click on "Export as" in the right hand corner and choose "CSV". This will download a file for you to see the full breakdown.
Per Allergen
To look up which products and recipes are associated with a particular allergen, go to the Recipes > Setup area and click on "Manage Allergens". When you click on any allergen from the list, you will see a full list of exactly which products and recipes contain that allergens.
Recipe Viewer
From within the Recipe Viewer you can also search for recipes by allergens. Once you have that open (Recipes > Recipe Viewer), select the Search bar on the top right corner of your screen. The search results will include any recipes that contain the keyword in either the name or the recipe ingredients.