The diet order census is the number of diet orders (i.e., diet type and texture type combinations) the dining areas support and is used in forecasting calculations and production reports so that production staff know the servings of each menu item to produce against the diet orders.
The diet order census is built by the following methods:
- By diet order assignments to residents/patients (who in turn are assigned to dining areas). For example, you have 20 residents with the regular diet type/regular texture type, three residents with the vegetarian diet type/regular texture type, and two residents with the regular diet type/mechanical soft texture type.
- Any dining area set up with a manual diet order census.