Copying between kitchens

If you own more than one kitchen in Rinvy — a second location, or the demo kitchen you tried things out in — you can bring its products, recipes, menu items and prep templates into the kitchen you're in, instead of entering them again.

How to copy

From Products, Recipes,Menu or Prep templates, tap Copy from another kitchen. You can also reach it from Kitchen Settings → Organization. The button only appears if you own another kitchen.
You're always copying into the kitchen you're currently in. Nothing in the other kitchen is changed — copying only ever reads from it.
Switch between Products, Recipes, Menu and Templates, and tick what you want. A recipe or menu item automatically brings what it needs (see below), so you don't have to hunt down its ingredients first.
Before anything is written, Rinvy shows you exactly what will happen: what's new, what you already have and will be reused, what's coming along that you didn't pick, and anything that won't fit on your plan.
The result screen names anything that was skipped and why.

What comes along automatically

You pick the thing you want; Rinvy works out what it needs.

You pick a…	It also brings
Product	Its storage category, its supplier, its pack options and unit conversions
Recipe	Everything above for each ingredient, plus the product the recipe makes — and any sub-recipe that makes one of those ingredients
Menu item	Its recipe (and that recipe's ingredients); for a combo, its component menu items too
Prep template	Every recipe on the template, with their ingredients

Everything pulled in this way is listed under Comes along on the review screen. It's worth a look before you confirm — on the Standard plan, a couple of recipes can bring more products than you have room for.

Things you already have are reused, not duplicated

Rinvy matches each incoming item against what's already in the receiving kitchen — first by "this was copied from that one before", then by name (and, for products, the same counting unit). Anything that matches is reused as-is and shown under Reused from this kitchen.

That means two things worth knowing:

Copying twice is safe. Run the same copy again and it reports everything as already here, creating nothing.
Your own version always wins. If you've already got a "Burger Sauce" recipe, copying theirs won't change yours — not its ingredients, not its yield. Rinvy links the two so a later copy still recognises them, and leaves your recipe exactly as you wrote it.

What doesn't come with it

A copy brings the shape of a thing, not the numbers that belong to the kitchen it came from:

Stock, counts, receipts, waste and sales history — none of it travels.
Costs. Case costs, pack prices and last-received dates start empty and fill in from your own first delivery. A price from another location would quietly skew your food cost and inventory value.
Par levels (minimum stock) start at zero. A par is a statement about one room's volume.
Supplier account numbers, which are issued per location.
Supplier item codes learned from invoice scanning.
Count-sheet order — copied products go to the end of their category, so your walk order isn't reshuffled.

Selling prices on menu items are copied, since a menu item needs a price to be costed at all. Check them against your own menu afterwards.

If something can't be copied

Each item you pick is copied on its own, all-or-nothing. If one can't land, it's skipped and named — everything else still comes across, and the skipped one leaves nothing half-finished behind.

The two common reasons:

You're at your plan's limit. Deselect a few items, or upgrade. The review screen tells you before you confirm which ones won't fit.
The units don't line up. If a recipe measures flour in grams but the "Flour" you already have is counted in each with nothing saying what an "each" weighs, Rinvy won't copy a recipe it can't cost. Add the conversion to your product, then copy again.

Common mistakes

Expecting a copy to stay in sync

A copy is a one-time snapshot. Change the recipe in the other kitchen afterwards and your copy doesn't follow. Re-running the copy won't pull the change across either — it sees the item as already here and leaves yours alone.

Copying into the demo kitchen

You can copy out of a demo kitchen — that's the main reason people use this — but not into one. Demo data is meant to stay as it is.

Expecting to copy from a kitchen you only manage

Copying reads one kitchen's whole catalog and writes it into another, so it's limited to kitchens you own. Being a Manager on a kitchen isn't enough, in either direction.