Making a Copy of a Master Recipe
The recommended method to create a new recipe is to copy an existing master recipe as the original base and modify it as necessary, rather than create a new recipe from scratch. To make a copy of a master recipe, complete the following steps:
- Select Recipes > Recipes Listing. The Recipes screen appears.
- Use the filters and search tool to locate the master recipe you want to copy. (To identify a master recipe, see How Do I Know if a Recipe is a Master Recipe?)
- Click the recipe’s name link. The recipe slide-out panel appears.
- Click the Save As button. The Save As pop-up window appears (screenshot below).
- For the name of the recipe, remove the “Copy of” text, keep the existing name, and add a facility identifier at the end of the name so that it can be identified from the original master recipe that will still exist in the system. See the screenshot below for an example:
- As to the Recipe Box field:
- If your account is a facility account, then My Recipes is the only option. The My Recipes label allows users of a facility account the ability to quickly find recipes owned by their account on the Recipe Listing screen (see Finding and Opening a “My Recipe" Recipe (for Facility Accounts) ).
- If you are a system or corporate account, there is the option to keep the My Recipes label, which prevents it from being available to its child accounts. To have the recipe be available to child accounts, the recipe must be given another label. For example, “Entrees Poultry”, “Entrees Vegetarian”, “Sides Vegetables”. Recipe boxes can also be created by system and corporate account for their purposes (see Recipe Box Labels for more information).
- To copy over the recipe's extensions (i.e., substitute recipes for diet type and texture type combinations) ensure the Keep recipe extensions check box is selected.
- To copy over the recipe's fluid substitutes (i.e., substitute fluid recipes for fluid types) ensure the Keep fluid substitutes check box is selected.
- Click Save As button. The pop-up window closes, and a new browser tab opens with the slide-out panel of the newly-created recipe for you to modify as needed. Rather than repeat the instructions here on modifying a recipe, the same details can be found on the Creating a New Recipe topic (start at step 3 of the Getting Started section).
Note that for a recipe that has been copied, the copied recipes appear as links above the image of the original recipe. Clicking a recipe link opens the recipe in a new browser tab.