Using Master Menus

Master Menus are helpful for sponsors that use Central Menus or Central Kitchens.

Have a menu that is used by multiple locations who all prepare their own food

Operate using a central kitchen model, where food is prepared at one facility and then delivered to the sites

First, we need to know which site has the Master Menu.

• Go into Site Details
• Check the box for Master Menu Site

Next we need to link the Master Menu site to the sites that use that menu

• Go into Site Details
• From the dropdown "Uses Master Menu" select the Master Menu Site

• Enter the menu as usual
• Menus will be automatically populated to the linked sites
• Edits made to the menu in the Master Menu site will be automatically transferred to the linked sites
• If food production records exist in the linked sites and a menu is changed, the food production records will be updated accordingly

Follow Steps 1-3 from above

The Central Kitchen will need to know how much to prepare and deliver to each location. To help with that, enter meal orders for each site.

The food production record for the central kitchen will reflect all of the food prepared for all of the locations. To make the food production for the central kitchen:

• Go to the Master Menu Site
• Click on Menu
• Click on the date and meal type
• Click on Edit Food Production Record

At the top of the page, the meal orders will be listed by site and age range. If these meal orders are accurate, then copy the totals by age range to the food production amounts below. In the example above, there are 40 orders for the 6-12 yr age range and 225 orders for the 13-17 age range

You can create site-level food production records right from the same screen.

• Check the boxes to the right of the meal orders
• Click the button to Create Site-Level FPR