- Master Recipes: Recipes Flow Down to Child Accounts
- How Do I Know if a Recipe is a Master Recipe?
- What Do I Do with Master Recipes?
Master Recipes: Recipes that Flow Down to Child Accounts
The Recipe Listing screen shows all recipes in the MealSuite system's parent-child hierarchal account structure. Recipes owned by an account flow down to its child (i.e., facility) accounts are known as "master recipes" and are free for those child accounts to add to their menu as is or copy and use as a base for a new recipe specific to the child account.
For example, a recipe owned at a parent corporate account is available for use in the child facility accounts of the parent corporate account. From the child facility account's perspective, that recipe is a "master recipe" and can be added as a menu item or copied as needed.
Recipes owned at the top-level MealSuite database account are considered master recipes because they were created by the MealSuite Nutrition Services team for use by all MealSuite system, corporate and facility accounts.
How Do I Know if a Recipe is a Master Recipe?
A master recipe is not labelled as such in the MealSuite system. A master recipe can be deduced by the Owner column on the Recipe Listing screen (see Setting Preferred Columns to display the Owner column).
If the owner is not your MealSuite account, then it is owned by a parent account in the account hierarchal structure and therefore is considered a “master recipe” to your account.
What Do I Do with Master Recipes?
- Master recipes are available to add as menu items. See Adding, Removing and Replacing Menu Items.
- For a master recipe on your menu, you can review and modify its substitute recipes extended to the diet type/texture type combinations and fluid types available in your account to make sure the substitute recipes are appropriate for your facility standards. This can be done in one of two ways:
- Altering the extensions of the recipe itself; see Working in a Recipe Extension Grid. Note that when a child account makes changes to the extensions of a master recipe, then the extension grid becomes specific to that child account only and is "locked" from any future changes by the parent account of the recipe. For more information, see Reverting Recipe Extensions to the Master Recipe.
- Altering the extensions specific to the menu item (i.e., the extensions are only changed for the recipe at the menu level, and not at the base recipe level). See Working in a Menu Item Extension Grid
- You can copy a master recipe and use it as a base for a new recipe in your account. See Making a Copy of a Master Recipe.
- Certain details of a master recipe can be customized for your MealSuite account without the need to copy the master recipe to your account. See Customizing a Master Recipe for your Account.
- A food item used as an ingredient in a master recipe may belong to a food variation group, which contains similar food items. A food item in a food variation group can be swapped out with the existing food to be used as the new food for the ingredient. The benefit of food variations is that you can use the same recipe and just change a food rather than having to create two separate recipes with slightly different foods (e.g., one recipe with Carrot Sticks, RTS, and another recipe with Carrots, Sliced FRZ). See Recipe Variations: Swapping a Similar Food for an Ingredient in a Master Recipe for more information.*
*The ability to swap food items for an ingredient is available to certain accounts only.