| Note! The Meal Planning module is offered in partnership with eTrition, another brand within Harris School Solutions. We have made significant effort to align our products to give you as seamless an experience between the two products as possible, but differences do exist. Please contact our Support Team if you need help. |
INTRODUCTION
The Production section is an add-on for the Meal Planning module which allows users to track recipes served on a given date, with the total projected servings, produced amounts, actual served numbers, as well as any “left over” amounts for the given date and selected school. Production records can be manually added, however, are also automatically created when a new Calendar Menu is created under Meal Planning > Menus > Calendar Menus.
CREATING A NEW PRODUCTION RECORD
Navigate to Meal Planning > Production. Use the fields provided to search for a Production record, or click “Add New” to create a Production record manually.
When editing a Production record, click the pencil next to the desired date for the appropriate School, Menu and Session:
Fill in the fields for each Recipe, according to the final numbers for the given serving date and school. See below for an explanation of each field on the Production screen:
- Planned feeding Figure: The number of severing’s that are Planned.
- Offered Feeding Figure: The Number of serving’s that are being offered.
- Student Projected Serving: Total amount of students projected to be served on the selected serving date
- Total Projected Serving: Total amount of students and adults projected to be served on the selected serving date
- Produced Amount: Total servings actually produced for the recipe on the selected serving date
- Student Serving: Total number served to Student patrons for the recipe on the selected serving date
- Adult Serving: Total number served to Adult patrons for the recipe on the selected serving date
- Left Over: Calculated value, representing Produced Amount – Student Serving – Adult Serving
To see the Planned Cost and the Serving Cost of the production click Planned Cost.
To see the Production Cost information, select the Planned Cost tab or the Serving Cost Tab. Total Cost of the Production is also shown.
If desired, a comment can be entered on the Production record in the “Comment” section, however, this is not required. If entered, this will display on the Production record, as well as the Production Report.
Once the values have been entered for each field, click the “Save” or “Save and Close” button.
| Note! The "Get Temperatures" option is used when temperature readings are tracked utilizing SmartTemps readers. This is an add-on feature for the Meal Planning module, and the "Get Temperatures" option will only appear if the SmartTemps module has been purchased and is activated in MealTime. |
If desired, a Production Report can be generated from within the Production screen by clicking the “Print Production Report” button:
