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Select many items at once — bulk move, status and delete

Editing a big menu one row at a time is slow. On both the menu items list and the Menu Categories list you can now tick a checkbox on each row and act on the whole selection at once.

The rule

Deleting is permanent, and a category is only ever deleted when it’s empty.

How it works

  1. On Menu → Items, tick the checkbox on each item you want (or the box in the header to select everything on screen).
  2. A bar appears at the bottom: Move to category, Status, or Delete.
  3. Move to category opens a picker — choose any Food or Beverage category and every selected item jumps there.
  4. Status opens a picker with the same three switches as each row’s status menu: Show on menu / Hide, Mark available / Mark sold out, Add star / Remove star. Pick one and it applies to everything you ticked — handy on opening day when a scan imports everything hidden and you just want to show it all at once.
  5. Delete asks you to confirm, then removes the items for good.
  6. On Menu → Categories it works the same way, with one action: Delete empty. Categories that still hold items or subcategories are left alone and reported back so you know what to clear first.

Good to know

  • Selecting is scoped to what you see. Changing the family, filter, or search clears the selection, so an action never touches a row you can’t currently see.
  • Up to 100 at a time per action; larger selections are handled in batches automatically.
  • Moving and status changes are safe and reversible — nothing is deleted, items just change category or visibility. Deleting cannot be undone.
  • Deleting an item also removes its photos and drink-pairings; a linked point-of-sale item is simply unlinked, not deleted.
  • Only people who can edit the menu see the checkboxes.