Breakfast

Breakfast is a separate menu type because morning service is usually a different card, a different service window and often a different price structure — even when some items also appear later in the day.

When to enable it

Enable Breakfast when the restaurant serves a distinct morning offer that guests should be able to reach on its own. A café that serves the same list all day does not need it; a hotel dining room that serves breakfast until 11:30 and a full card afterwards does.

If breakfast is only three lines at the top of the main card, use a category of the à la carte menu instead. An enabled menu type that holds three items looks thin in the navigation.

What one record holds

Breakfast items use the standard dish fields:

Unlike the à la carte menu, breakfast has no recommended-wine or recommended-cocktail fields.

Allergen information is enabled for this type by default, which matters here more than most: breakfast is dense with gluten, dairy, eggs and nuts.

Categories that work

Breakfast reads best when the sections match how the order is taken rather than how the kitchen is organized:

Coffee and tea
Juices
Toasts
Pastries
Eggs
Sweet
Full breakfasts

Put the sections guests order from most at the top. The order in All categories is the order they read.

Prices

The unit price does more work here than on any other menu:

• pastries, croissants and pieces of fruit are sold by the piece;
• toasts are often half or full;
• set breakfasts use the full portion price alone.

Fill only the formats you serve and leave the rest empty.

Serving windows

Fenómenus does not schedule menus by time of day. Breakfast items are published or drafted like any other content, so a restaurant with a hard cut-off has two supported options:

• keep the breakfast menu published all day and let the QR codes at the tables decide what guests reach;
• move the whole type out of the guest navigation outside service hours by adjusting the contact dock links, which is a manual change.

Publishing and unpublishing dozens of items twice a day is not a workflow worth building. Most restaurants publish breakfast permanently and control access with where the QR codes are placed.

Public layout

Breakfast supports the five item layouts. Price list suits a long, text-heavy breakfast card; Masonry or Horizontal carousel suit a short photogenic one.

Bulk work

Breakfast supports both the Excel export and the paste-in bulk table, with title plus the three price columns. It is a good candidate for bulk entry because breakfast cards are usually long lists of short names.