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So, yes, in Genesis Classic, we have a feature called menu label or menu label reports, which we now have available in Genesis Foods. However, we have renamed this feature to food comparison report. In our research, we realized that while menu label reports in classics are really important for building those menu boards with label rounded data for our restaurant customers, that a lot of our customers had actually started utilizing the feature for r and d purposes. So when we built food comparison report in Genesis Foods with that in mind. So I do wanna start with demoing the new feature, and there is a lot to show. It's actually quite robust. So to start to open up your food comparison reports, you navigate here to your main dashboard. And then here, you'll see a card for FCR with this option to take me there. Selecting take me there opens up your selections of reports as well as gives you the option to create a new report in this upper left hand corner. Now these reports are global to your account, which means that if you have multiple users, everyone can utilize these reports. Notice you can see Carrie's french fry comparison report and Beryl's boba tea menu board here. One thing to note, though, is that the food items within reports are still restricted by access groups. So if you do utilize access groups to restrict the view of ingredients or recipes and the report contains at least one restricted item, that user would not be able to see or open the report. But as long as you're not using any restrictions with access groups, then these reports are shareable across all users in your account. So let's start with the new report. I'm gonna go ahead and click on that button. And the first thing I really wanna draw your eye to is this toggle, at the top. Notice how it says edit report versus view report. So when you're setting up your report, adding your food items, or otherwise customizing the layout, you'll wanna do that from here on this edit screen. To see the final report with all of the calculated data and to export it, you'll do that from the view report screen. So let's start with giving this report a name. I'm gonna click on this pencil icon here and give it something easy like braille's demo report and save. Next, on the left hand side, I can build my categories. So categories are the buckets that I wanna put my food items in. So for example, Lisa, if you were building a menu board, you may want categories like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. To add a new category, I select this add category on this left hand side and give it a name. Notice how Genesis has actually automatically created a category for you called food items. If you don't wanna use this, you can either rename it or delete it. You can use the pencil icon to rename it or use the trash icon to delete. In this case, I'm gonna rename this one, and then I'm gonna add a few more categories as well, including I'm gonna add this whoopsie category because now I've decided, oops, I created an extra category. I no longer want this. I wanna get rid of it. So to do so, I simply select the category and then hit the trash icon. I've also noticed that my categories are not in the right order, so I'm actually gonna hover my mouse over the category that I want to move. And I can either use these up and down arrows or simply click to drag and drop to reorder and put my categories into the correct order. Now next, above each category is this option to, add the food items to the report. So I'm gonna go ahead and do that. Now this is our new search model that we are actually rolling out first for food comparison report. And this search model is actually way more robust than our previous search models. One of my favorite things about it is that you can actually select multiple items on the left hand side, and then they will be added to your cart on the right hand side. So you can keep searching and adding things as you go. So, for example, perhaps I was searching for this report things under this specific tag, like b b. I can add that, and then I can continue on with my search as I want to go and keep adding things to my report without having to back out. You can still toggle between your user added items and trustful database items across the top here. And then we've also added an extra filter down below so that now you can search for ingredients specifically, recipes specifically, or if you wanna search across ingredients and recipes, you can now do that as well. So in this case, I'm gonna search for my grandma's red apples. Alright. One other thing we've also added to this search model is we have brought in the ability to add previous versions of a food item. We do this because we don't wanna clog up your search screen with search results, so we only, by default, display the most recent version. However, if you're looking or wanting to add a different version of the food item, you can now use these left arrows next to the name to expand it and expand and see all of the versions of these food items. As you can see, if we displayed every version of a food item by default, your search list could get really long. So that's why we only display the most recent by default, but you can expand and select others. We had another question from Stephanie. And Stephanie asked, how do I compare all versions of my recipe at the same time? So, Stephanie, this would be a really great way to do that. You could search for your recipe, select all of the versions or all of the versions that you would like to compare, and then add that to the report. And that way, you could see the changes made to that recipe over time throughout the different versions. Alright. So I'm gonna go ahead and add these and hit apply. And then now I've created my categories. I've added some food items, and now I wanna customize the data shown in my report. And this is the fun part. So to do that, I'm gonna select the column and data settings, and that's gonna open up this model. Now on this left hand side, I can select which data I want to see and what order. So, Lisa, if I was building a menu board, I'd probably want to include my nutrients, my ingredients, and my allergen statements, but perhaps I don't wanna show my quantity and measure. Notice that these column data settings have the same up and down arrows or drag and drop options as category. So if I wanted to change the layout or order of my data, I can simply just move that here on this left hand side. You may have also noticed that this panel on the right hand side is dynamically updating depending on which data that I am adding to my report. Excuse me. So in this case, I have added nutrients. And because I have selected nutrients, I now have this option to apply rounding rules. Actually, let me go one step back. So first, I wanna point out that we do have the authority selector here across the top. I wanna build this report for my United States authority, but if I did want to build it for other label authority regulations, I can do this so by clicking this. Next, I have this apply rounding rules, which is only available when I do have my nutrients selected for this report. This is a great way to get your label rounded values without having to create a label for your recipes. And before I apply these rounding rules, I wanna draw your eye to this nutrients to view list. You'll notice that when I do go ahead and apply these rounding rules, this nutrients to view list has automatically updated to using the US two thousand sixteen menu board option, when those have been applied. The reason behind this is because rounding rules only apply to specific nutrients. And to avoid a report where you have a nutrient list where some nutrients are labeled rounded and then your other nutrients are unrounded, when you apply the label rounding rules in this report, we restrict the nutrients to view list to either the mandatory label nutrients or this truncated menu board nutrients list that we have prebuilt for you to use. However, if you're looking for the unrounded nutrient data, you can toggle off the apply rounding rules and see that all of the nutrients to view list are now available, including any custom list you may have built. comparison report in Genesis foods, we now support the label rounded values for all supported authorities, including Canada, Mexico, European Union, and Australia, New Zealand. So for example, if I had switched my authority to Canada and then apply the rounding rules, notice how my nutrients to view list has updated to my Canada mandatory label nutrients list. Alright. Few more things down here. Important for menu boards is the ability to show calorie ranges per category, which you can choose to do so by toggling on the show calorie ranges button here. Also, if you like to calculate and show the percent daily value of the nutrients, you can toggle on this percent, show percent reference value here. Also, for your ingredient allergen statements, if you're using a bilingual authority like US, Canada, or EU, you can choose which language statements you'd want to show on this report. For example, for the United States, you'd be showing English Spanish. But if this is for, Canadian authorities, it would be English French. Also, with the allergen statements, you can choose to show only your contains allergen statements, your may contains allergen statements, or both. Alright. So now that I've done this, I'm actually gonna flip over to a report that I've already built for a menu board. To get back to my list of reports, I'm going to actually just use these links across here at the top, and selecting the food comparison reports brings me right back to my list of reports here. And then I'm gonna go ahead and open up this Briele's boba tea menu board report, that I prebuilt. And as you'll notice, as I opened it, it jumps me straight into my view report section. On the left hand side, I have my categories for my milk tea and my fruit teas. I have added in my food items and included my calorie ranges. But maybe while I'm looking at this, I realize, actually, I wanna add my ingredient statements to this report. I only have my allergen statements. I can simply open up my column and data settings, add in my ingredient statements, and, heck, maybe I wanna change the order of my layout too as well while I'm in there. And then hit apply. And then here I go. I have my report with my ingredient, allergen, and nutrient data as well. And then if I want to, I can export this report by using the export button in the upper right hand corner. And this report is exportable in both the CSV and the XLSX, which is the Excel file type.