The weekly menu alert
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Every Monday morning Brikly takes a snapshot of your menu over the last 30 days: every costed item, its margin, its flags and your Menu health score. That snapshot is what MenuBrik uses to tell you what needs your attention, so Home, the bell and the Brikly Connector all say the same thing.
The snapshot's gross profit margin covers your costed items, those whose recipe has a cost above zero. It includes their paid modifiers and is weighted by what each of them took. Items without cost data are left out of the margin, and it is left blank when costed items make up less than 60% of your takings.
On Home
Home shows the items from the latest snapshot that need your attention, biggest money first, in the same words as the flags on the Menu performance page. A snapshot more than three weeks old is not shown, so a missed Monday never passes off old figures as current.
In the bell
On Monday, the two biggest flags worth at least £20 over the 30 days also arrive as notifications in the bell. Each one opens the item it is about. Last week's unread menu notifications that no longer apply are cleared away, so the bell never holds a figure that has stopped being true. A flag that drops out of the top two stays on Home.
You can turn MenuBrik notifications off in Notification preferences.
Since last week
The Dashboard and the Menu performance page show what changed since the previous snapshot. A priced thin, price leak or modifier leak flag that appears is reported straight away, and one that clears is reported as stopped only when the problem really cleared: a dip under the £5 alert line says nothing, and nor does the flag coming back over it if it was showing before. A newly costed or new item that already has one of these flags gets a neutral note, and more than five in a week are shown as one line. An item moving into or out of your top earners, or becoming or no longer being an item to review, is only reported once it has stayed on its new side for two snapshots in a row, so an item sitting on the line does not swing back and forth every week. An item is reported as no longer needing review only while it is still in the figures with cost data.
When there is nothing to show
In the first weeks there is no earlier snapshot to compare with, so nothing is reported as changed yet.
When Brikly changes how a figure is worked out, Since last week only compares snapshots made the same way. On the first snapshot after the change, no flag is reported as newly raised or cleared. Moves into or out of your top earners or items to review are not reported for the first two Mondays on the new method. The Monday bell can still bring your biggest standing flags, without marking them as new. The up or down arrow beside an item's profit rank compares today's ranking with the newest snapshot at least seven days old; until there is one, no arrow shows. That snapshot can be from before a change in how figures are worked out, so for a week or two some of an arrow's move can come from the change, not from trading. It shows on All locations, and on one site only when that site covers every live till.