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Marking a Menu Category (or Categories) of a Meal Period or Snack Time as Do Not Serve for a Resident/Patient

Kevin U
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A menu category (or multiple categories) of a meal period or snack time can be marked as do not serve for a resident/patient's personal menu, meaning all items in that menu category will be marked as do not serve for the resident/patient. For example, do not serve juice (menu category) at breakfast (meal period).

There are two methods to mark a menu category as do not serve (both achieving the same effect):

Method 1 - via the Settings Tool

  1. Open the person’s personal menu.

  2. At the top right corner, click the settings tool. The customization slide-out panel appears.

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  3. The Diet Order field by default displays the person’s currently-assigned diet order (diet type and texture type), which is indicated by the blue user icon. You can only add a personal customization to the person’s currently assigned diet order, so therefore ensure it is selected in the Diet Order field.

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    If the person’s currently-assigned diet order consists of different texture types for meal periods and snack times, then those texture types (combined with the primary diet type) are available in the Diet Order field with the blue user icon, as per screenshot below. Therefore personal customizations can be added to them. (For more on what diet orders are displayed in the Diet Order field, see Viewing Personal Menu Customization Grid > Diet Order Field).

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  4. Click Add New > Do Not Serve. The Do Not Serve pop-up appears.

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  5. Ensure the Menu Categories option is selected.

  6. In the Meals field (top field), select the meal period or snack times of the menu category to be marked as do not serve.

    Note: If the person’s currently-assigned diet order consists of different texture types for meal periods and snack times, then those texture types (combined with the primary diet type) are available from the Diet Order field for you to select (step 3 above). The Meals field in the pop-up therefore only displays the meal periods/snack times the selected texture type is associated with.

  7. In the Menu Categories field (second field), select the menu category or categories to mark as do not serve. Note the categories available depend on the meal periods and snack times selected in the Meals field, meaning the category is only available if it assigned to a meal period/snack time selected in the Meals field. Therefore, if multiple meal period/snack times are selected, the menu category must be assigned to each meal period/snack time to be available in the Menu Categories field. 

  8. Click the Save button to apply your changes and close the pop-up. The selected menu category is removed from the personal menu.

Method 2 - via an Item

  1. Open the person’s personal menu.

  2. Click on an item from the meal period/menu category you want to mark as do not serve. The Customize pop-up window appears.

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  3. Click the Do Not Serve icon (do_not_serve.png). The Do Not Serve pop-up appears.

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  4. Select the Menu Category: [Category] option.

  5. Click the Save button to apply your changes and close the pop-up. The selected menu category is removed from the personal menu.