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Making a Copy of a "My Recipe" Recipe

Kevin U
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Making a Copy of a "My Recipe" Recipe

You can make a copy of a recipe owned by your account ("my recipe"), and then use that copy as a base to build a new recipe. 

To make a copy of a "my recipe" recipe, complete the following steps:

  1. From the left navigation sidebar, select Menus & Recipes > Recipes Listing to open the Recipes Listing screen.
     
  2. Open the Filters tool, and select the My Recipes Only check box, and then click Apply (first screenshot below). The recipes owned by your account appear (second screenshot below). 

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  3. If need be, use the other filters and the search tool to search for the desired recipe.
     
  4. Click the Look Up Name link of the recipe you want to make a copy of. The recipe window appears.
     
  5. Click the Copy and Save button. The Copy and Save pop-up appears.

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    Note: If the Copy and Save button is not available, it indicates that the recipe is also a prepared food. A prepared food cannot be copied. 
     
  6. For the name of the recipe, remove “Copy of”, and alter the name to be unique from the original recipe. 
     
  7. As to the Recipe Box field:
    • If your account is a facility account, then My Recipes is the only option. A "My Recipe" label is given to a recipe created by a MealSuite account to allow the account users to quickly find their own recipes on the Recipe Listing screen (see Finding and Opening a “My Recipe”).
    • If you are a system or corporate account, there is the option to keep the My Recipes label, which prevents it from being available to its child accounts. To have the recipe be available to child accounts, the recipe must be given another label. For example, “Entrees Poultry”, “Entrees Vegetarian”, “Sides Vegetables”. Recipe boxes can also be created by system and corporate account for their purposes (see Recipe Box Labels for more information.
       
  8. To copy over the recipe's extensions (i.e., substitute recipes for diet type and texture type combinations) ensure the Keep Recipe Extensions check box is selected. 
     
  9. To copy over the recipe's fluid substitutes (i.e., substitute fluid recipes for fluid types) ensure the Keep Fluid Substitutes check box is selected. 
     
  10. Click the Save button. The pop-up window closes, and a new browser tab opens with the newly-created recipe for you to modify as needed. Rather than repeat the instructions here on modifying a recipe, the same details can be found on the Creating a New Recipe topic (start at step 3 of the Getting Started section).

Note that for the original recipe that was copied, its copied recipes appear as links in the Related Recipes section below the recipe image. Clicking a recipe link opens the recipe in a new browser tab. 

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Assign the New Recipe to a Production Area

After your recipe is created, your final step is to assign the recipe to a production area for your kitchen staff. For example, a “hot” production area to prepare cooked items and a “cold” production area to prepare non-cooked items.