A dish from head office
A group dish works like any of your recipes: its allergens come from its ingredients, and it is on your chart, your menus and your allergen page. The difference is that head office looks after some parts of it, so they stay the same at every business.
Locked parts
Unless head office unlocks them on the master, these parts are locked at your business:
Part | What it covers |
|---|---|
Ingredients | The recipe's lines |
Allergens | What the dish adds on top of its ingredients. You can add, not remove (see below) |
Label and name | The dish's name, which is also its label name, the label wording, which labels it prints, and meat content |
Shelf life | Shelf life once made, storage and defrost time |
Method | The method, how much it makes and the portion size. The method is locked because steps such as keeping the bun on the clean side of the grill affect cross-contact |
A locked part says head office looks after it, and its tab is marked locked. You can't change it on the web, in the app or through Paddy. Head office can unlock a part on a master, for example a method that is only guidance.
What you can change
The description and category, which are open unless head office locks them
Hide from public allergen page, which is always yours
Confirming its allergens, which is always yours
Its till links and the menus it is on, which head office never changes
Adding an allergen
On a dish, prep item or product from head office, the allergens head office set can't be removed. You can add one for your kitchen, such as may contain sesame because of a shared fryer. Head office's later updates never take it off.
Products and prep
Products in a group dish come with it, with their allergens and the ingredients list from the supplier's spec. Their allergens are add-only and the ingredients list is locked. The name, supplier and product code are open.
A prep item from head office, such as a burger sauce, is one linked copy at your business, used by every dish that needs it. When head office changes the sauce, every dish that uses it follows.
Declaring a local variant
If your kitchen uses a different ingredient, for example because the group's supplier doesn't deliver to you, declare a local variant. It is the only way to change a locked ingredient.
Open the dish and go to its Ingredients tab
On the line you use something else for, choose Use a local ingredient
Pick your ingredient and say why. Head office sees the reason
Check what changes, then choose Declare variant
Only the owner or a manager for the whole business can declare a variant.
Allergens follow the swap. One your ingredient adds shows at once. One it takes away waits for you to confirm, like any removal
The line shows as Local variant, to you and to head office
Head office's later changes to that line are not applied at your business. The rest of the dish still follows its updates
If the dish's label uses your own wording, Paddl asks you to check it, as it may name the old ingredient
To undo it, choose Go back to the group's line. If the group's ingredient takes an allergen away, that removal waits for you to confirm.
Making it your own
The owner can unlink a dish with Make it our own. It keeps everything as it is and gets no more updates. Head office is told.
For head office: masters in the library
In the library, the locked parts are shown at the top of each master, and you change them there with the master's Save. Ingredients, allergens, label and name, shelf life and method start locked. The description and category start open.
The library raises no alerts. If an ingredient of a master stops bringing an allergen, the master keeps it until you confirm the removal on the master itself, and you can't publish an update to it until you do. To send a change to the businesses, publish an update.