- About the Standard Menu
- About the Snack Menu
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About the Special Event Menu
- Printing Special Event Menus
- FAQ: I created a special event menu for the Wednesday dinner meal, but am I able to add the Thursday lunch meal to that same special event menu or do I need to create new special event menu?
- FAQ: Can a special event menu be used again after its date has passed?
- FAQ: How do I remove a special event menu from the schedule?
- FAQ: Does a special event menu override a snack menu for the date the special event menu is scheduled?
- About the Also Available (AA) Menu
- About the Liquid Menu
About the Standard Menu
A standard menu is the main type of menu to be used in your account. A standard menu contains the menu items served for the three meal periods of breakfast, lunch and inner. A standard menu can have a cycle of one to 12 weeks long.
About the Snack Menu
A snack menu is similar to a standard menu, with the difference being that a snack menu contains the menu items served for the three snack services of snack AM, snack PM and snack HS. A snack menu can have a cycle of one to 12 weeks long.
How do I serve snacks to a resident/patient?
For snacks to be served to a resident/patient, the following conditions must be met:
- The person's assigned residence area is enabled as a dining area. By default all residence areas are enabled as a dining area to allow for in-room delivery, but you can disable a residence area as a dining area. If a residence area was disabled as a dining area, then it can be re-enabled as a dining area: click here for instructions to do so.
- A snack menu is scheduled at the same menu service location (MSL) of the residence area enabled as a dining area.
If the above conditions are not met, then on the personal menus the snack service time sections (Snack AM, Snack PM, and Snack HS) do not display snack items when the Displays Snacks option is selected from the Display Options.
About the Special Event Menu
A special event menu is a single day menu designed for festive occasions or emergencies in which the standard menu is not served. When a special event menu is scheduled, it will be served in place of the standard menu for that day. Once the day passes, your standard menu goes back into effect.
Special event menus can also be created for a single meal period (breakfast, lunch or dinner). Therefore, if you are serving a lunch holiday meal, you can just create a special event menu for lunch. On the day such a special event menu is active, the breakfast is served from the standard menu, lunch is served from the special event menu, and dinner is served from the standard menu.
Printing Special Event Menus
- To print a menu report of a special event menu, select the special event menu from the Search by Menus field in the base settings for menu reports.
- To print a special event menu in the Week-at-a-Glance report, see Including a Special Event Menu in the WaaG Report.
- To print a special event menu in the Daily Displays Menu report, see Including a Special Event Menu on Daily Display Menus Report.
- Special event menu items will automatically populate on people reports, such as the Tray Menu Tickets Report (People), the Person Specific Select Menus Report (People) or the Generic Select Menus Report (People).
FAQ: I created a special event menu for the Wednesday dinner meal, but am I able to add the Thursday lunch meal to that same special event menu or do I need to create new special event menu?
You will need to create a new special event menu for the Thursday lunch meal. A special event menu is for a single day only.
FAQ: Can a special event menu be used again after its date has passed?
Yes, after the date passes on which the special event is scheduled, you can simply schedule the special event menu again for the date you want to run it.
FAQ: How do I remove a special event menu from the schedule?
You simply just "unschedule" the special event menu. See “Unscheduling” a Menu.
FAQ: Does a special event menu override a snack menu for the date the special event menu is scheduled?
No. If a snack menu is scheduled, it does not get overridden by a special event menu.
About the Also Available (AA) Menu
An Also Available (AA) menu holds items that are offered in addition to the standard menu.
An AA menu can also be configured to offer its items as fallback substitutes (i.e., house fallback), meaning an AA item is automatically offered as a substitute on a resident/patient's personal menu when an item is excluded due to an allergen or being manually marked as DNS.
An AA menu can be set up as a weekly menu or a single day menu. As a single day menu it offers the same meals every day.
Printing an AA Menu
- AA menu items will automatically populate on people reports, such as the Tray Menu Tickets Report (People), the Person Specific Select Menus Report (People) and the Generic Select Menus Report (People).
- To print a menu report of an AA menu, select the AA menu from the Search by Menus field in the base settings for menu reports.
Forecasting an AA Menu or Not
See the following article: Forecasting an AA Menu or Not?
About the Liquid Menu
A liquid menu contains the liquid food items (broths, juices, pudding, supplements, etc.) to be served to a resident or patient who is assigned a liquid diet (clear liquid diet or full liquid diet).
In the MealSuite system, a liquid menu is created as a subtype to a main menu type (standard, snack, special event, also available). When a person is assigned a liquid diet, they will not be served from the main menu, but rather from the liquid menu that is scheduled and associated with the main menu type.
Printing Liquid Menus
- To print a menu report of a liquid menu, select the liquid menu from the Search by Menus field in the base settings for menu reports, and then from the Liquid Diet field, select the liquid diets (clear liquid, full liquid, tube feeding) to print the items associated with the liquid diets.
- Liquid menu items will automatically populate on people reports, such as the Tray Menu Tickets Report (People) and the Person Specific Select Menus Report (People).