Table Select Service Type: Item Selection Logic for a Personal Menu

• Table Select Service Type: Item Selection Logic for a Personal Menu
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  • What if there are multiple items from the same choice selection in a category?

Table Select Service Type: Item Selection Logic for a Personal Menu

When a resident/patient's profile is set up with the table select service type for a meal period, the menu items available for selection on their personal menu are based on their assigned diet order, allergens, and personal menu “do not serve” customizations.

Note that the means for items and their serving numbers to be included on productions reports for the table select service types is via the percentages forecasting method applied to the menu. 

When there is a choice 1 item on the active menu that exists for the resident/patient's diet type and texture type, the selection logic to determine what is offered on the personal menu of a resident with the table select service type is as follows: 

1. The choice 1 item will be offered on the personal menu if it is not DNS (do not serve) due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS. For example, the choice 1 orange juice is not DNS and therefore is offered. 
   
   
   
   Note that if there are multiple items from the same choice selection in a category and none is DNS due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS, then all items are offered. For example, orange juice and apple juice are both choice 1 items in the Juice category, and therefore both are offered. 
   
   
    
2. If the choice 1 item on their personal menu is DNS due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS, then that choice 1 item is not offered. The selection logic continues as follows: 
    
   1. If there is another choice 1 item in the same category, and that choice 1 item is not DNS due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS, then that other choice 1 item is offered. For example, if the choice 1 orange juice in the Juice category is DNS, but the choice 1 apple juice also in the Juice category is not DNS, then the apple juice is offered. 
      
      
       
   2. If there is no other choice 1 item in the same category, or there is but it too is DNS due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS, then the system looks at the choice 2 selection, and repeats steps 1 and 2 above. In the example below, the choice 2 items of cranberry juice and pineapple juice in the Juice category are offered. 
      
      
       
   3. If there are no choice 2 items that can be offered, then the system looks sequentially at the next choice selections (choice 3, 4, 5), if available, repeating steps 1 and 2 above for each choice selection. 
       
3. If an item from a choice selection cannot be offered, the system will look if an Also Available (AA) menu configured as a house fallback is scheduled. If so, then the system chooses an item from the AA menu, looking in the day/meal period/menu category. Note that an AA menu item displays as underlined on a Person-Specific Select Menu. 
   
    
    
4. If an AA menu is not scheduled, or is scheduled but no item is assigned for the day/meal period/menu category, or an item cannot be offered due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS, then the system looks if a fallback substitute is assigned. Note that a fallback substitute displays as underlined on a Person-Specific Select Menu.
   
    
    
5. If a menu item cannot be offered after the selection logic is performed above, the system displays a “Substitute Needed” cell. 
   
   
   
   By hovering over the Substitute Needed cell and clicking the Add Substitute option (first screenshot below), the Add Substitute modal displays (second screenshot below) with the following options:
   • Add a fallback substitute to resolve a Substitute Needed (replaces item for the instance: day, meal period/snack time, and menu category).
   • Add a personal menu item to resolve a Substitute Needed (adds personal menu item for the instance: day, meal period/snack time, and menu category).
     
     
     
     

FAQs

What if there are multiple items from the same choice selection in a category?

If there are multiple food items (i.e. options) from the same choice selection in a category, and none is DNS due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS, then all items are offered. The system will not select one item over the other. 

For example, assume the choice 1 item(s) and the choice 2 item(s) from the Juice category are DNS due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS. Therefore the system looks at the choice 3 items in the Juice category, which for example's sake consists of pineapple juice and cranberry juice. Because the pineapple juice and cranberry juice are not DNS due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS, both juices are offered for choice 3 (as per screenshot below). 

 

These items are also printed on the Person-Specific Select Menus Report (People), as per screenshot below.