“…quite widely in the literature (see, e.g., [8,21,6,5,20,15,11,4]), notably for Brouwerian algebras, where the product coincides with the meet, and odd Sugihara monoids, where the product is commutative and the map x Þ Ñ xze is an involution. The monoidal structure of any idempotent residuated lattice A is a unital band and the relation on A defined by a Ď b :ðñ a¨b " a is a preorder that we call the monoidal preorder of A; if the product of A is also commutative, then xA,¨, ey is a unital meet-semilattice with order Ď and greatest element e. When A is totally ordered -that is, A is a residuated chain -the product has the further property that a¨b P ta, bu for all a, b P A; we call residuated lattices satisfying this condition conservative, noting that semigroups with this property are called quasitrivial (see, e.g., [7]).…”