A draft menu is used to prepare changes to be included later in the active menu. Several employees can simultaneously (and independently of one another) create and edit draft menus, allowing preliminary preparation of all necessary changes and, by extension, quick and easy updating of the active menu.

For example, the bar manager can create a draft to make changes to the drinks section, the head chef can create another draft menu to edit hot dishes, the cold kitchen chef can create a draft menu to edit the salad bar section and the restaurant manager can edit services directly in the main menu.

Draft menus are managed in the Draft menu directory.

Draft menus contain changes to be made to the Menu directory after the corresponding draft is activated. Changes made to the active menu will immediately become available in the POS terminal menus, and changes made in the Draft menu will not affect the active menu until the draft is activated.

Working with a draft menu is exactly the same as working with an active menu (from the Menu directory).

A draft menu is created automatically when a new draft is added to the Drafts directory. A newly-created draft menu is initially an exact copy of the current active menu. Before any items are changed or deleted, draft menus have no statuses.

All subsequent changes introduced to the active menu will affect draft menus. This means that if any item is edited in, added to or deleted from the Menu directory, the same changes will be applied to the Draft menu directory.

As for changes being made to draft menus, they will affect only statuses of draft menu items. When a draft menu item in the Draft menu directory is edited, it is given the status Edited. If it is deleted from the Draft menu directory, it is given the status Deleted. If a new item is added to the directory, it is created with the status Added. None of these changes will affect the active menu until the draft is activated.

When the draft is activated, the contents of its draft menu become read-only.