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Choice Groups (the building block)
Reusable pools of items that combos pull from.
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Choice Groups are reusable pools of menu items that Combo meals drop in as slots. Build a "Mains" group once, and every burger combo on your menu can use it.
When to use Choice Groups
Only when you're building combos. Choice Groups don't appear on the menu by themselves — they're infrastructure for combo slots.
If you only need to customize a single item (size, toppings), use Item modifiers instead.
How they fit with Combos
Think of a Choice Group as a shopping list of options. A combo's "slot" picks ONE option from a Choice Group:
- Group "Mains" → Cheeseburger / Bacon Burger / Veggie Burger / Chicken Sandwich
- Group "Sides" → Fries / Onion Rings / Salad / Mac & Cheese
- Group "Drinks" → Soda / Iced Tea / Lemonade / Coffee
Then your "Burger Meal" combo has three slots:
- Slot 1: Main → pulls from Mains
- Slot 2: Side → pulls from Sides
- Slot 3: Drink → pulls from Drinks
Change "Mains" → adds "Salmon Burger" → every combo that uses "Mains" now offers Salmon Burger automatically.
How to do it
Step 1 — Open Choice Groups
From Stores → your store → Choice Groups. The tab is empty on a new store — tap + New.
Step 2 — Name the group
Use action-oriented plurals: "Mains", "Sides", "Drinks", "Desserts". Diners never see this name (they see the slot label set per combo), so optimize for your clarity.
Step 3 — Add options
Tap + Add menu item and pick items from the picker. Each option can have an upcharge — extra money the diner pays if they pick this option vs. the cheapest one in the group:
- Cheeseburger → +$0.00 (default — no upcharge)
- Bacon Burger → +$1.50 (premium option)
- Salmon Burger → +$3.00 (luxury option)
Mark one option as default with the star icon — the combo picker pre-selects it.
Reuse pays off the second time. With one combo it feels like extra steps. With five combos that all share Mains/Sides/Drinks, you edit "Sides" once and all five combos update automatically. That's the power of Choice Groups.
When a Choice Group is "in use"
If a combo's slot references your Choice Group, you can't delete the Choice Group — the editor will show "In use by Burger Meal, Veggie Lunch Combo". Either remove the slots from those combos first, or just update the group instead of deleting.