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KitchenHand Quick Start: Setup & Bulk Tools

From empty app to live kitchen iPad, in the order that avoids rework.

KitchenHand
💡  Most KitchenHand frustration comes from doing setup out of order. This sequence prevents it.

Applies to: the current MarketSquare platform — mymst.app. Not applicable to the legacy V2 platform (beta.intrac.app).

On your computer  the web back office  ·  In the app  phone, tablet or scale device
👉 Tap this press it in the app  ·  Exact label look for this wording on screen

Day one, in the right order

Ingredients in Square → ingredient costs set → yield items created → build two or three recipes → first worklist → go live on the iPad.

The order matters. Recipes can only use ingredients that already exist in Square, and costing only works once those ingredients have costs. Get those two foundations in place first and recipe building goes quickly.

⚠️ Before you start
  • All ingredients exist in Square (bulk-create them through Square's import if you have many).
  • Ingredient costs are set — automatic if InTrac invoices are being reconciled, otherwise entered by hand.
  • A yield item exists in Square for each finished product you intend to make.

The tools that do the heavy lifting

Recipe Uploads
Bulk-import recipes from a file rather than building them one at a time.
Where: Settings
Square item import
Bulk-create missing ingredients and yield items through Square's own import; they sync back into the catalog.
Where: Square Dashboard
Find & Replace
Swap one ingredient for another across every recipe at once — supplier changes in seconds.
Where: Recipes
Where Used
List every recipe containing an ingredient — allergen checks, substitutions, discontinuations.
Where: Recipes
Recipe Costs Update
Review recipes whose costs moved after invoice-fed ingredient changes, and update them together.
Where: Recipe Costs Update
Worklist week-build
Create a whole week of production tasks in one sitting, one per recipe per production day.
Where: Worklist
Bulk-importing recipes? Check the data before you go live. Recipes are complex records — ingredient matches, units, quantities and yield items can map incorrectly on import. Spot-check every imported recipe against the original and run one test batch before trusting the costs. An unpicked bad import is far more work than building a few recipes by hand.
The 80/20: do not digitise the whole recipe book first. Take the three to five items you make most, run them through the worklist for a week, then bulk-import the long tail once the workflow is proven.

Common questions

Can I copy an existing recipe as a starting point?

Duplicating and editing is the quickest way to build variants, such as a family size alongside a single.

A supplier switch changed an ingredient in forty recipes.

One Find & Replace pass handles it, then check Recipe Costs Update for the margin impact.