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title: "Phase 4: Recipes"
slug: "phase-4-recipes"
description: "Ops Phase 4: learn recipe and menu item concepts, map recipes to POS items for COGS tracking and theoretical depletion. Timeline: 2 weeks."
updated: 2025-08-21T21:28:00Z
published: 2025-08-21T21:28:00Z
canonical: "docs.restaurant365.com/phase-4-recipes"
---

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# Phase 4: Recipes

Phase 4 focuses on creating recipes and mapping them to POS Menu Items. Recipes are used for tracking COGS for batch recipes and theoretical depletion through menu items.

### Phase Goals

- Learn concepts of [recipes](/v1/docs/recipe-item-record) and [menu items](/v1/docs/menu-items-menu-item-links) to apply those concepts post-onboarding
- Trained on [Yield, Prep, and Menu Item Recipe best practices](/v1/docs/recipe-flow-and-build-out)
- Timeline: 2 weeks

### Advanced Topics

- Target margins and menu engineering setup for one section of your menu (draft beer, appetizers, etc.)

### What is coming up in the next phase?

- Wellness check
- Scaling your business with new Locations
- Your org's long-term growth vision post-onboarding

### Additional Resources

- Recipe Creation
  - [Getting Started with Recipes](https://help.restaurant365.net/en/support/solutions/articles/12000073426-r365-s-back-to-school-tips-tricks#tip-3)
  - [Recipe Creation and Flow](/v1/docs/recipe-flow-and-build-out)
  - [Include Recipes on Inventory Counts](/doc/docs/include-recipes-on-inventory-counts)
  - [Unit of Measure Equivalences](/v1/docs/using-equivalence-to-add-u-of-ms-to-purchased-items)
- Menu Items
  - [Mapping Recipes to Menu Items](/v1/docs/mapping-recipes-to-menu-items)
  - [Menu Item Categories](/v1/docs/menu-item-categories)
  - [Menu Item Separation](/v1/docs/menu-item-separation)
- Reporting
  - [Menu Item Analysis](/v1/docs/menu-item-analysis)
  - [Menu Price Analysis](/v1/docs/menu-price-analysis)
  - [Actual vs Theoretical Analysis](/v1/docs/actual-vs-theoretical-analysis)

POS (Point of Sale)

A system used by businesses to process sales transactions and manage customer payments. Connected to R365 through a [POS integration](/doc/docs/pos-integration-overview).

## Related

- [Phase 3: Inventory](/phase-3-inventory.md)
- [Recipe Flow and Build Out](/recipe-flow-and-build-out.md)
- [Barcode Scanning: Viewing Barcodes](/barcode-scanning-viewing-barcodes.md)
- [Barcode Scanning: Adding and Deleting Barcodes](/barcode-scanning-adding-and-deleting-barcodes.md)
- [Recipe Costing](/recipe-costing.md)
- [Phase 4: Accounting Cutover](/phase-4-accounting-cutover.md)