Opening the Menu Day View

• About the Menu Day View
  • Demo Video (1:12)
• Opening the Menu Day View
• Filter Options
• Display Options
  • Displaying Costs
  • Displaying Either the Lookup Name or Display Name of Recipes
  • Sorting by Menu Category or Choices
  • Extension Editor Settings
• Expand/Collapse Meal Period Sections
• Viewing Offerings for Diet/Texture Types on Menu Day View
  • If an Item is DNS
  • If an Item is Recommended to be Restricted

About the Menu Day View

The menu day view displays the menu items being served for a specific day. 

Demo Video (1:12)

Opening the Menu Day View

To open a menu to its menu day view, complete the following steps:

1. Open the the Menu Listing screen via Menus & Recipes > Menu Listing.
2. Locate the menu you want to open and click its Menu Name link. The week-at-a-glance (WaaG) screen opens (second screenshot below).
   
   
   
   
    
3. From the WaaG screen you can click onto a day header column to open the menu to that specific day, which is known as the menu day view (third screenshot below). 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   If the menu is a single day menu (i.e., special event menu or an also available (AA) menu set as single day), then click into the meal period header (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) to open the menu day view. 
   
    

Display Options

The Display Options at the top right allows you to customize how items are displayed on the menu day view.

Displaying Costs

Selecting the Display Cost check box displays costs on the menu. For more information on how costs are displayed, see Displaying Costs on the Menu. 

Displaying Either the Lookup Name or Display Name of Recipes

• Selecting the Look Up Name option displays the look up name (i.e., system name) of the recipe. 
• Selecting the Display Name option displays the display name (i.e., user-friendly name) of the recipe. 

Sorting by Menu Category or Choices

• Selecting the Menu Category option displays items by their assigned menu category.
  
  
  
  
  When viewing by menu categories, you can hover over an item to see what choice number it is assigned to (e.g., choice 1, choice 2). 
  
  
   
• Selecting the Choices option displays items by their assigned choice (second screenshot below). Note that viewing by choice offers a cleaner view, and many long-term care homes use this view.
  
  
  
  

Extension Editor Settings

If the menu is an extended menu (i.e., supports therapeutic substitute recipes), then you can determine if the extension grid automatically appears or not when you add a menu item. 

• Auto-Open - select this option if the menu item extension grid will automatically appear when adding a menu item to allow you to update its therapeutic extensions.
• Manual - select this option to not have the menu item extension grid automatically appear when adding a menu item. You can later access the extension grid of the menu item to update its therapeutic extensions.

You can expand/collapse a meal period section by clicking its down arrow on the right of the meal period header.

Viewing Offerings for Diet/Texture Types on Menu Day View

A menu can be set up as an extended menu, which means it supports recipes that have been extended with therapeutic substitutions for the various diet type/texture type combinations set up in your account.

Assuming your menu is an extended menu, then both the week-at-a-glance (WaaG) view and menu day view allow you to view the menu items being offered for the diet type/texture type combinations.

This article explains how to view diet/textures on the menu day view. 

Note: The menu items being offered for a specific therapeutic diet type/texture type are added as part of a recipe’s extension grid, which can be done from the recipe itself or menu itself. 

To view diet/texture type offerings on the Menu Day view:

1. Open the menu day view for the menu.
2. From the Diet and Texture fields at the top right, select the diet/texture combination you want to view. The menu day view refreshes with menu items that are offered for the selected diet/texture types.
   
   

If an Item is DNS

If the item for the diet/texture combination is set to do not serve (DNS) on the therapeutic extension grid, then that item is indicated as "Do Not Serve" and appears in red text.

If an Item is Recommended to be Restricted

If the diet type is configured with recommended restricted items, and a recommended restricted item was selected for that diet type, then the recommended restricted item appears in red text with the diet conflict icon () to alert you of the conflict.



Hovering your cursor over the icon display details of the conflict.



To clear the conflict, you can update the diet type with the appropriate recipe substitute (see Working in a Menu Item Extension Grid).