MIM - How to: Make It A Meal

Instructions for programming the 'Make It A Meal' option on MIM items.

The Make It A Meal choice set type is available from early 2025 and requires Polygon Central deployment 25.03 or later.

To complete the programming to add Make it a Meal to a menu item, you will first need to create a dummy 'make it a meal' PLU in Polygon POS Management - this will replicate as a MIM item in Polygon Central.

You can choose to:

• apply a $ value to this PLU and apply the items from the choice sets as free choices

• leave the value of this PLU at $0.00 and use charged items in the choice sets.

The steps to complete this programming are:

• create a Choice Set with the type Make It A Meal and assign the dummy 'make it a meal' item to this choice set.  The Display Name of this choice set will be the text on the button in OLO3 - eg. Make it a Meal, Create Combo, etc. 

• assign the relevant choice sets (add a drink, add a side etc) to the dummy 'make it a meal' item.

Make It A Meal with Sizes

Currently, the only way to Make it a Meal with sizes is to:

• include choice sets for each size and option (Small Sides, Large Sides, Small Drinks, Large Drinks)
• include all possible sizes in each choice set (Sides contains both small and large items), Drinks contains both small and large items).

Alternatively, you can choose not to use the Make it a Meal option and instead include choice sets like 'Make it a Small Meal' / 'Make it a Large Meal' as optional choices on the parent item.

Each choice set would include 'Small Chips and [drink] 375ml', or 'Large Chips and [drink] 600ml' etc.

Make It A Meal and Aggregators

This configuration of Make it a Meal is supported in the menu export for both Uber Eats and DoorDash.

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