Overview

Ingredients — Individual food items (e.g., chicken breast, rice, carrots)
Dishes — Recipes made from one or more ingredients with quantities and measurements
Meals — A collection of dishes served together (e.g., an entrée, side, and dessert)
Calendar — A rotating schedule that assigns meals to specific days for each product

Key Features

• Rotating meal calendars — Define a multi-week cycle and assign meals to each day
• Ingredient scaling — Automatically calculate ingredient quantities based on client counts
• Dietary substitutions — Configure automatic meal or ingredient substitutions for clients with dietary needs. Menu Management supports two types of substitutions:
• Omit Item: An Omit Item substitution is simply listed on the Delivery Reports (e.g. Kitchen Sheet, Route Sheet, Meal Labels, etc. depending on your organization's report configuration) and the Kitchen staff can make the appropriate adjustment to the client's meal.
• Substitute Meal: A Substitute Meal substitution changes a client's Product for the day to the designated Substitution Meal for that product category. This could be a special "Substitution Meal" product item or simply another usual product item.

• Shopping lists — Generate scaled ingredient lists for any date range
• Day detail reports — View per-day breakdowns of meals, clients, and dietary overrides

Accessing Menu Management

• Meal Calendar — View the current month's meal assignments. Click any day to see details or edit.
• Meals — Manage your meal data using the buttons: Meals, Dishes, Ingredients, and Dietary Needs.
• Settings — Configure your calendar using the buttons: Edit master calendar and Calendaring settings.

Getting Started