About this Article
This article explains how to swap meal services (breakfast, lunch or dinner) on a whole menu.
Warning!
If wanting to swap meal services (breakfast, lunch or dinner) on the same day of an existing menu (e.g., swap lunch with dinner on week 2 Thursday), do not attempt to do so with the instructions in this article! Instead, see the following article: Swapping Meal Services (Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner) on the Same Day of an Existing Menu.
If wanting to swap meal services (breakfast, lunch or dinner) on different days of an existing menu (e.g., swap week 1 Monday lunch with week 2 Thursday dinner), do not attempt to do so with the instructions in this article! Instead, see the following article: Swapping Meal Services (Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner) from Different Days on Existing Menu.
Swapping Meal Services (Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner) for a Whole Menu
To swap meal services (e.g., lunch and dinner) for a whole menu, you will first create a blank menu and then use the Copy Menu function on the new menu to copy the items from the existing menu, and while doing so swap the desired meal services (i.e., lunch to dinner, and dinner to lunch). Complete the following steps:
- Create a new menu from scratch, ensuring to select the same weeks and choices as the original menu. Depending on the menu type, refer to the appropriate instructions below:
- With a new blank menu created, then from the left navigation pane, select Menus & Recipes > Advanced Tools > Copy Menu Items. The Copy Menu screen appears with the Select Items to Copy tab automatically selected.
- If you want to copy from a “My Menu” (i.e., menu owned by your account), select the My Menus option. If you want to copy from a menu not owned by your account, select Other Menus.
- From the available drop-down, select the menu from which to copy items (i.e., the “copy from” menu). The screen refreshes with the Select Menu Items to Copy section with the various menu filter fields (second screenshot below).
- By default, all the menu filter fields are automatically populated. Do not change.
- Click the Next button. The screen refreshes to the Select Where to Copy tab.
- From the Copy to Menu field, select the new menu that you want to copy the items to. The screen refreshes accordingly.
- The screen is organized by weeks. For each day of each week, swap the desired meal services. For example, if wanting to swap lunch and dinner from the original menu to the new menu, then from each Lunch to field select Dinner, and from each Dinner to field select Lunch.
- Click the Next button to preview your changes, and then click the Start Copy button to begin the copy. When the copy process is complete, the message “Menu copy completed successfully!” appears, and you can click the Go To [Menu] button to see the results.
- Schedule the new menu as needed.