Recipes & Deleted Products
In the Back Office in the Inventory Tab, if you click Add/Edit Products, you can delete a product by clicking on the 
In this example the product of “Bud Bottle” is in the Recipe of “Budweiser” I am able to replace the Product in every Recipe it is in by selecting a new Product from the drop-down box
This will list all other Products that use the same Unit. If you delete a Product that uses Quantity then you can replace it with any other Product that also uses Quantity. But products that use Liquid Volume or Dry Volume will not appear.
If you choose not to do so then the Product will be deleted but the Ingredient will still exist in the Recipe which is a problem.
To check to see if you have any orphaned products in recipes you can go to Back Office > Inventory > Setup > Recipes & Del. Products
Here you can see a list of all Item and Option Recipes that have deleted Products.
If you click on the Pencil icon you are taken to the edit page for that Recipe where you can change the Ingredients.
If for example you have a particular vodka in all of you cocktails and you are changing the vodka that you use you would do the following.
- Create the new Vodka product and keep the units the same
- Delete the old Product
- Choose the new product from the list to replace it
Now all recipes that used the old vodka will use the new one.
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