For some reason when entering food items on the till, I go to food, main meals and as soon as the first meal is selected the it returns to the drinks menu.
If I go back to food it then let’s me add the rest of the order without jumping back to the drinks menu. Is there a way I can stop this?
You don’t need to use auto select to get tags, if you select an order in the ticket part it will show the same order selected screen.
This is the same for portions, autoselect is doing just that, selecting that order when added, which shows the portions/tags screen.
At any point you can select a new order manualy to change the tags/portions.
You can find information about order tags on this tutorial. I strongly suggest you to create a backup before changing settings so you can rollback easily if you need.