Administrator - Creating, Copying, Editing and Deleting Base Menus

Base Menus in CNCentral are intended to provide menu planners with a template for their cycle menus organized by grade group and meal session. The Base Menus Module make copying menus out to future weeks streamlined and easy saving menu planners time in the menu planning process. 

This article describes how to use the Base Menus module and includes information on:

Creating a Base Menu

Note: Only DA Users have the ability to create and edit base menus. Base menus will not automatically create a production record.

  1. From the Base Menus module, click the blue plus sign button on the bottom right hand side of your screen
  2. When the base menu flyout window opens, enter the following: 
    1. Menu Name (Alphanumeric open text field) 
    2. Meal Session (Options are breakfast, lunch, snack, supper)
    3. Grade Range 
      1. If Breakfast is selected for meal session, options are K-5, K-8, K-12, 6-8, 9-12, and Adult
      2. If Lunch, Snack or Supper are selected for meal session, options are K-5, K-8, 6-8, 9-12, and Adult
    4. Select the Menu Operating Days
      1. By default Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday will be auto-selected. Select or de-select as necessary
  3. Click the Create button

Copying a Base Menu

  1. From the Base Menus module, click the additional options menu (3 dots icon) of the appropriate base menu and select the Copy link
  2. Enter a base menu name if different from the base menu you copied from (original base menu name will automatically appear but is editable)
  3. Enter a new feeding figure if different from the base menu you copied from (original base menu feeding figure will automatically appear but is editable)
    1. Entering a new feeding figure here will prompt the system to automatically adjust the planned servings of all menu items to match the new feeding figure entered
  4. Select a grade range from the drop down list if different from the base menu you copied from (original base menu grade range will automatically appear but is editable)
  5. Click the Copy button

Editing a Base Menu

  1. From the Base Menus module, click the additional options menu (3 dots icon) of the appropriate base menu and select the Edit link
    1. Alternatively, you can click on the name of the base menu
  2. You will be taken to the base menu work sheet where you can make the desired changes

Deleting a Base Menu

  1. From the Base Menus module, click the additional options menu (3 dots icon) of the appropriate base menu and select the Delete link
  2. Review the warning message and click the Delete button to perform this function 
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