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titleMeal Planning Features - Review features included in Meal Planning.

View - Allows you to change how you view the calendar.

    • Include Saturdays
    • Include Sundays
    • Show Recipe Detail - Shows all items included in the recipe for the meal.
       
    • Row Height - Allows you to adjust the size of the rows so all items are visible when more than one recipe is allocated for a day or when viewing recipe details.

Edit Day - Allows you to edit details for the day. You may also edit a day by double-clicking in a cell.

Reset to Template - Resets the entire meal planning calendar to the template established at the the District level.

Automatic Planning - Allows you to apply existing meal plans to upcoming dates for an established date range.

Once meals have been established and counts have been entered, the program determines quantities needed for planned meals and which items to order.

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titleAutomatic Planning - View Automatic Planning options.

Establish Automatic-Planning for upcoming dates. Then, click Ok.

    • Use the calendar menu to establish a date range.

      Note

      You must select a date range beyond the current day in order for automatic-planning to be implemented.

       

    • Select planning based on Past Planning Records or Past Serving Records.

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Meal plans will automatically be updated based on Past Planning Records or Past Serving Records.

Quantities needed are determined by:

Menus on the calendar starting with the current date and ending with the selected date.
Ingredients on the recipes containing planned serving counts.
Scaling the recipes.
Ingredients on pending orders.
Ingredients on-hand.

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  • Normal - Selected for every day operation.
  • Low Participation - Selected when meal participation is low such as upcoming holiday periods and the end of the school year.
  • High Participation - Selected when meal particiaption participation is high - typically on days a popular meal is being prepared.
  • No Meal - No meal is established by default and for holidays or when meals will not be served.

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Step 5: Enter estimated meal counts for each menu and serving group. You may expand each menu to adjust menu components counts and extra servings for items (such as à la carte sales) in cases where one menu component may be less popular than another. Then, click Ok.

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