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Adding a venue to a group

Opening a second restaurant under the same brand shouldn’t mean retyping the menu and re-uploading every dish photo.

The rule

The new venue inherits everything but owns its copy of everything. The library is a starting point, not a leash.

What comes across

The group holds the master version of everything that’s the same everywhere: menu definitions, prices as suggestions, recipes and their ingredients, modifiers, supplier identities, category structure, role definitions, and every dish photo.

Adding a venue walks that library and creates a private copy of each row for the new location.

Why “its own copy” matters

The copies are independent in both directions. The new venue can change a price, hide a dish, swap a photo or rename a modifier without touching the library or any sibling. And when a sibling changes its price, the new venue’s price doesn’t drift.

Photos work the same way — each venue holds its own copies. A better shot uploaded six months later stays local.

How it’s done

From the group’s page in the super-admin area, two buttons sit near the member list:

  • Create new member venue — for a brand-new location. Give it a name, a URL slug, a currency and a timezone. On confirm, the whole library materialises into it.
  • Lift existing venue — for a restaurant that already exists outside the group.

Materialisation takes a few seconds for a typical menu. When it finishes the venue is genuinely ready: the menu is there, the photos are there, and every link between item, recipe and ingredient is already wired.

Good to know

  • Prices come across as suggestions. Setting local ones is expected, not an exception.
  • Nothing about the source venue changes when you lift or copy from it.