Featured items
Featuring marks the dishes the house wants guests to notice. It is a single on/off mark per item, rendered by the public layouts and printed by the PDF generator, and its value depends entirely on using it sparingly.
Feature or unfeature an item
From All items:
- Find the row.
- Select the star.
- The star fills when the item is featured, and the screen confirms Item featured successfully or Item unfeatured successfully.
The change is immediate; there is nothing else to save.
You can also set it from the item screen, in the featured panel of the side column.
What guests see
A featured item carries a visible mark in the public layouts and can be styled distinctly by the design. The wording of that mark is yours to choose.
Rename the featured label
The mark has a fixed internal identity and an editable public name:
- Open Settings → Restaurant settings → Content settings → Content settings.
- Edit Featured term name.
- Save.
Typical wording: House specialty, Chef's choice, Our recommendation, New, Must try.
Renaming changes only the words. Items already featured stay featured, and nothing else is affected. On a multilingual site, the label is translated like any other string, so it can read naturally in each language.
How many to feature
The mark works by contrast. A menu with four featured dishes tells a guest what to order; a menu with thirty tells them nothing.
Practical guidance:
- one or two per section, at most;
- never more than about one in ten items;
- feature what the kitchen is proud of and the floor can consistently deliver, not what has the best margin on paper.
Review the featured items whenever the menu changes. A dish featured last season and never unfeatured is the usual reason the mark loses meaning.
Finding what is currently featured
There is no dedicated filter for featured items. Two practical approaches:
- read down All items, where the stars are visible in the list;
- check the public menu signed out, which is where over-featuring becomes obvious.
Do this before a launch. It takes two minutes and it is the difference between a mark that sells and a mark that is noise.
Featuring and duplication
Duplicating an item copies its taxonomy assignments, and the featured mark is one of them. A copy of a featured dish arrives featured. Unfeature the copy unless it is genuinely also a specialty.
Featuring across languages
The featured mark belongs to the item, and the public label is translated per language. Feature once, on the item you maintain; guests see the mark in whichever language they read.
Featuring in printed menus
The PDF generator renders the same content as the digital menu, so featured items are marked there too when the template shows them. Regenerate the PDF after changing what is featured — the file does not update itself.