Skilled Nursing Facilities

Creating and Managing Dining Areas, Tables, and Seats

This screen contains configuration settings for Facility Setup for Dining Areas, Tables, and Seats. All Dining Areas, Tables, and Seats that are available in your facility can be set up in Dining Areas, Tables, and Seats. You can then select from the list of dining areas you set up when assigning residents to a dining location for each meal. You can add new, edit, and delete dining areas, tables, and seats.

Note

Use the Start Wizard only when using assigned seating. The Start Wizard provides a quick and efficient process for adding new Dining Areas, Tables and Seats. You can manually edit and delete after completing this process.

  1. Facility Setup > Dining Areas/Table/Seats.

  2. Click Start Wizard.

  3. Click Create Dining Area.

  • Dining Area Name - Type information.

  • How many Tables in Dining Area? - Type information. 

  • Table Naming Pattern - Select option. Dining Tables show as T-01, T-02... or T-A, T-B...

  • How many Seats per Table - Type information.

  • Seating Naming Pattern - Select option. Dining Seats show as 1, 2... or A, B...

  • You can manually add, edit, and delete Dining Areas, Tables, and Seats by using the option for each column.

  • When using assigned seats, meal tickets and reports print by table number when tables are assigned.

  • When adding a dining room without assigned tables, the meal tickets group by dining location, but print alphabetically by resident last name.

  • Residents are automatically assigned the Eats in Room dining location upon admission so specific room tray dining locations are not needed.

  • Dining locations are meal specific so a lunch and dinner dining area is not needed.

  • You cannot delete a Dining Area, Table or Seat that is assigned to a resident.