Skilled Nursing Facilities

Managing Batch Orders

Batch Orders are meal orders placed for residents on a unit or dining area that have been defined as batch tickets. The meal order tickets are not sent to the printer based on delivery time, but remain in the Batch Orders list until they are ready to be printed manually.

Note

Defining units and dining areas as batch ticket printing must be completed first in Kitchen setup under the Facility Setup tab. See Managing Kitchens for more information.

  1. Menus > Order Manager > Batch Orders. 

  • Include Printed Orders - Shows orders that have been printed with printer icon.

  • Send to Thermal Printer - Sends Batch tickets to Thermal Printer. Button is unavailable if print server, printer type, and ticket template are not set up for the kitchen.

  • Print to PDF (Laser) - Generates a PDF document to send to the laser printer.

  • A red astericks appears next to residents with multiple meal orders for the same meal. Click meal status icon to open Order Summary and void multiple meal orders, if applicable.

  • Select All Meals from the Meal filter to print batch order meal tickets for all meals for the selected calendar date.

  • If you are printing to PDF Laser, you can select to Print Color Highlighting of textures and special diets on the report. For more information, see Managing Color Highlighting.

  • Batched meal order tickets sort and print by Meal Service Sequence defined in Facility Setup.