How do I get started using Galley?

Articles that should be read and followed (in a suggested order) to get started and going with Galley.

To understand the fundamentals of Galley, spend some time reviewing these articles. They are presented in our recommended order for reading.

Learn the Basics

These articles present Galley's terminology, an introduction to the data structure, and instructions about logging into and out of Galley.

1. Galley Terminology
2. What is Galley's data structure? 
3. How do I log in and log out of Galley?

Create Recipes

In this section, you learn how to create a recipe. You'll learn how to create a sub-recipe, set yields, print recipes, and understand the difference between standard and custom units.

1. How do I create a recipe?
2. How do I add ingredients to a recipe?
3. How can I create and use sub-recipes? 
4. What is a recipe yield?
5. What is the difference between standard and custom units?
6. How do I print a recipe? 

Create Ingredients

In this section, you'll learn how to create new ingredients, import information from the USDA, and set trim yields. You will learn about Ingredient units and conversions, too.

1. How do I create new ingredients?
2. How do I account for trim yield?
3. How do I import information from the USDA database?
4. What are ingredient units & conversions?

Create Locations

Locations are defined as a physical place where food is produced and/or served. In this section, you learn how to use Locations in Galley.

1. How do I use locations? 

Create Vendor Data

Vendor data defines your vendor list and which of your location(s) are served by each vendor, or if the vendor is global. This section discusses vendor groups and how to use them. 

1. How do I add vendors?
2. How do I add new vendor items to one of my vendors?
3. How do I link vendors to a location?
4. What is a global vendor?
5. How do I create a vendor group? 
6. How do I add a vendor to a vendor group?

Cost your Food Data

Once you've defined vendor items in Galley, you can associate those vendor items with your Ingredient. Once this is set up, Galley automatically prices your items. This section shows how to link vendor items to ingredients, and offers troubleshooting steps if your recipes are not costing properly.

1. How do I link vendor items with ingredients? 
2. How do I check why a recipe is not costing?

Categorize your Food Data

Galley provides virtually unlimited category/tag combinations that you can use to segment your food data exactly as you want to. This section defines what categories are, how they function, and how to use them.

1. What are categories and how do I use them?

Create Menus

This section shows you how to create a menu and add items to that menu. Additionally, we introduce you to the menu-based (advanced) workflows.

1. How do I create menus and add menu items? 
2. Menu-based Workflows