- About the Kitchen Production Sheet in the Touch App
- Tutorial Video - Kitchen Production Sheet in the Touch App (2:35)
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Running the Kitchen Production Sheet
- Layout
- Marking an Item as Complete
- Hiding Completed Items from the Screen
- Viewing Full Details of a Recipe
- Viewing Serving Numbers for a Specific Meal Delivery Area
- Viewing Serving Allocations for All Meal Delivery Areas (i.e., Allocation Summary)
- Searching for a Specific Item
- Increasing or Decreasing Size of Onscreen Content
- Where is the Info Pulled from for the Kitchen Production Sheet?
- Default Settings for the Kitchen Production Sheet
- FAQs
- Printable One-Page Quick Reference Guide
About the Kitchen Production Sheet in the Touch App
The Touch Kitchen Production Sheet is used on a daily basis to inform the production staff of the amounts to be produced for a selected meal period or snack time. The report also allows staff to record the temperature of the items. The recorded temperatures can then be run in a temperature report for inspectors.
Tutorial Video - Kitchen Production Sheet in the Touch App (2:35)
Running the Production Sheet
Under Production Reports, tap Kitchen Production Sheet (first screenshot below). The Service & Delivery Production Sheet appears (second screenshot below).
- Select the date to run the report (note that the default is today's date).
- Select the meal period or snack time.
- Select the production area(s), which in turn determines the items to print in the report. If you have a "No Production" production area set up with items that do not need to be produced, then ensure you do not select the "No Production" production area (click here for more information).
- Select the menu service location(s). A menu service location is assigned menus and dining areas (including residence areas enabled as a dining areas for resident profiles with in-room service). The dining areas in turn determine the diet order census based off resident profiles assigned to the dining areas, or a dining area set up with a manual diet order census.
- In the Additional Options for Advance Ordering, you have the following options for residents/patients who place advanced orders:
Use Forecast - If in the core system the advanced ordering census is included in forecasting, then selecting the Use Forecast option will include items and their serving numbers pulled from the forecasting worksheet associated with the selected day and meal period/snack time. Note that items on the forecasting worksheet are determined by actual orders placed; for orders not placed, the worksheet includes items that are automatically selected based on the item selection logic for the advanced ordering service type.
If in the core system the advanced ordering census is not included in forecasting, then selecting the Use Forecast option and running the report will generate the "No report data found" message.
Use Orders - When the Use Orders option is selected, the report will include items for the actual orders placed by resident/patients.
For residents/patients who have not yet placed an order, then by default the report will include items that are automatically selected based on the AO item selection logic. However, if you did not want the report to include items for those resident/patients who have not placed an order, then such items can be configured to be excluded by using the Touch Admin software as follows:
- Select Report Presets.
- Scroll to the Kitchen Production Sheet section.
- Select the Exclude people assigned to the Advanced Ordering service type who have not placed their order option.
- Click the Update Report Preset button to apply your changes.
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Tap the Create Report button to generate the report.
Layout
- Recipe name.
- Total amount required and the recipe serving size.
- If a recipe is part of another recipe, then the Additional for use in section lists the recipe it is part of.
- Total number of servings and the recipe serving size.
- Expandable section to view servings per meal delivery area.
- Ability to record temperature.
- The production area of the recipe.
- Mark item as complete.
- View full recipe details.
Marking an Item as Complete
Tap the Mark As Complete button when item is complete.
When Mark as Complete is tapped, the status reads Complete with the option to Undo.
The number of items marked as complete is recorded at the top of the screen.
Hiding Completed Items from the Screen
To hide completed items from the screen, activate the Hide Completed filter.
Viewing Full Details of a Recipe
To view the full details of a recipe, tap the icon at the top right of the recipe. The details open in a separate pop-up window (second screenshot below).
Viewing Serving Numbers for a Specific Meal Delivery Area
To view the serving numbers for a specific meal delivery area (i.e., dining area or residence area enabled for in-room service), use the View filter at the top left of the screen to select the meal delivery area.
Viewing Serving Allocations for All Meal Delivery Areas (i.e., Allocation Summary)
To view the serving numbers allocated to each meal delivery area, tap Allocation Summary at the top right of screen, and the Allocation Summary pop-up appears (second screenshot below) listing the serving numbers per meal delivery area.
Note: If a recipe is an ingredient in another recipe, it is also listed in the Allocation Summary. A recipe used as an ingredient does not have a count assigned in a meal delivery area.
Searching for a Specific Item
You can search for a specific item via the search tool at the top left of the screen.
Increasing or Decreasing Size of Onscreen Content
Tap the magnifying glasses to increase or decrease the size of the onscreen content.
Where is the Info Pulled from for the Kitchen Production Sheet?
The report pulls items from the menus assigned to the menu service locations (MSLs) that you select when you run the report.
The serving numbers for each item on the report are determined by the dining areas that are assigned to the MSL. A dining area can be as follows:
- Dining area with resident profiles assigned
- Residence area enabled as dining area for resident profiles with in-room service
- Dining area with a manual census
The serving numbers in turn will be affected by any forecasting applied to the menu:
Default Settings for the Kitchen Production Sheet
Certain settings can be set by default when the Kitchen Production Sheet is run by the Touch app user. These default settings are set in the Touch Admin software. To do so, complete the following steps:
- In Touch Admin, select Report Presets. The Report Presets screen appears.
- Scroll to the Kitchen Production Sheet section.
- Select or deselect the default settings as needed:
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Use Auto Generated Forecasting - to understand this preset, first note that when forecasting is applied to your menus, the report will automatically include the serving numbers from the associated forecasting worksheet. When a forecasting worksheet is locked, then the report will pull those numbers from the locked forecasting worksheet.
However, If you do not want to pull serving numbers from a locked forecasting worksheet, and instead pull from the latest auto-calculated forecasting results generated by the system (i.e., locked forecasting worksheet is ignored), then you can do so by selecting the Use Auto-Generated Forecasting check box.
Using the auto-generated forecasting results rather than the results from the locked forecasting worksheet provide you with the most up-to-date information based upon your current census and menu edits. It is also a useful function to compare forecasting numbers that you may have manually adjusted on the forecasting worksheet as opposed to what the system auto-calculates.
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Exclude people assigned to the Advanced Ordering service type who have not placed their order - this setting works in conjunction with the Use Orders option when running the report, explained as follows:
When the Use Orders option is selected, the report will include items for the actual orders placed by resident/patients.
For those resident/patients who have not yet placed an order, then by default the report will include items that are automatically selected based on the AO item selection logic.
If you did not want the report to include items for those resident/patients who have not placed an order, then such items can be excluded in the report by selecting the Select the Exclude people assigned to the Advanced Ordering service type who have not placed their order option.
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Use Auto Generated Forecasting - to understand this preset, first note that when forecasting is applied to your menus, the report will automatically include the serving numbers from the associated forecasting worksheet. When a forecasting worksheet is locked, then the report will pull those numbers from the locked forecasting worksheet.
- Click the Update Report Preset button to apply your changes.
FAQs
How do I remove items from showing in our Production Reports that do not require prep work by kitchen staff?
If items do not need to be produced, such as juice, supplements, adaptive aides or equipment, etc., and therefore not assigned to a production area, those items by default will be listed on a production report in a section titled “Unassigned”.
To not have an “Unassigned” section on your report, then in the Core system you can create appropriate production areas such as “No Production”, “Supplement”, “Adaptive Equipment”, etc., and assign the non-produced items to those production areas. When running the production report, you would not select those production areas.
Why is an item missing from my production report?
If an item is missing from a production report, you can check the following:
- Ensure that the item is assigned to a production area and that the production area is selected in settings.
- If you are not seeing all choice 2 items, then it means the Census Forecasting method is applied to the menu rather than the Percentage Forecasting method. The Percentage Forecasting method includes items from all choices on a menu; whereas the Census Forecasting method only includes non-choice 1 items if a resident/patient's assigned diet order warrants it via the item selection logic. See Applying Forecasting to a Menu to change the forecasting method for a menu.
- If utilizing forecasting, it could be the forecasting worksheet is locked, and as such any new item added to the menu after the forecasting worksheet was locked will not be shown in production. To pull in items added after the forecasting worksheet was locked, select the preset value Use Auto-Generated Forecasting check box in Touch Admin (see above), which will pull from the latest auto-calculated forecasting results generated by the system (i.e., locked forecasting worksheet is ignored).
There is the ability to unlock the worksheet to enable the forecast auto-calculation process to update the numbers. See the article Locked Forecasting Worksheets for more information
Printable One-Page Quick Reference Guide
Click the attachment below to download a one-page printable guide of the Touch Kitchen Production Sheet.