Skilled Nursing Facilities

Creating and Managing Menu Sets

This screen contains configuration settings for Menu Builder for Menu Sets. The first step in building a Menu for your facility is to add a Menu Set, including title, description and number of days. Copying an existing Menu Set is the most efficient way to create a new Menu Set. After a Menu Set is created, you can edit the Menu Set name, description or number of days in the cycle. You can also remove older or unused Menu Sets.

Important

It is helpful to add all the Menu Items, including their suitabilities, and Therapeutic Menu combinations needed before adding items to your menu. See Setup Therapeutic Menus for more information.

Warning

Deleting a Menu Set deletes all of the content including the Therapeutic Spreadsheets. You cannot undo a deleted Menu Set.

  1. Menus > Menu Builder.

  2. Click Add New Menu Set.

  • Name - Type information. For example, Summer Menu.

  • Description - Type information.

  • Number of Days - Type information. For example, a 4 week cycle = 28 days.

  • Display Menu - Select option. This opens the menu editing screen where you build your menu.

  • Edit Setup - Select option. Use to edit Name, Description and Number of Days. Use to change Number of Days when copying a menu set if needed.

  • Setup Therapeutic Menus - Select option. This opens the Therapeutic Menus setup window where you add or remove Texture and Special Diet combinations that you want to use for building your therapeutic menus.

  • Copy Icon (paper icon next to menu set name) - Select option.

    1. Click copy icon for menu set you want to copy.

    2. Enter name and description of new menu set.

    3. Select one of the copy options:

      • Copy all menu content - Copies the entire Menu Set including everyday items and course names.

        • Include Show Plate Photo(s) - Copies show plates saved for the corresponding week, day, and meal.

        • Include Production Notes - Copies Production Notes saved for the corresponding week and day.

      • Copy only everyday menu items - Only copies menu items that are served on a daily basis (Always Available).

      • Copy only course names (no menu content) - Only copies course and sub-course names without their menu item content.

    4. Click Copy.

  • A new Menu Set needs meal courses configured before Menu Items can be added.

  • If you add days to a Menu Set, Everyday items appear on the days added.

  • If you remove days from a Menu Set, the days are removed, but the menu content remains intact. 

  • The In Use column indicates which menu sets are currently scheduled for facility(ies). To view only the in use menu sets, select In Use Only.