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Quick menu

Quick Menu generates a complete cycle menu from a single form. Instead of adding each day and meal by hand, you tell the wizard how many weeks and days the menu covers and which meals each day includes, and it builds the whole structure for you. This is the fastest way to start a weekly or monthly cycle menu for a school, hospital, or other institutional food service.

Generate a cycle menu​

  1. Click Menu Templates in the sidebar, then click QUICK Menu.
  2. Enter a Menu Name. This field is required.
  3. Enter How Many Weeks? and How Many Days Per Week?. Both are required; a menu can cover up to 99 weeks with up to 7 days per week.
  4. Select the meals for each day from the Meals list, for example Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
  5. Optionally select a Category, a Calorie Level, and a Region.
  6. Click Create Template. The template is created and you return to the Menu Templates dashboard.

The generated template contains one day for every day in the cycle, named by position, for example "Week 1 Day 1", "Week 1 Day 2", and so on, with the meals you selected already added to each day.

Fill in the foods​

Open the generated template from the list of menu templates and use the menu editor to add foods to each meal. Copying and pasting days is a quick way to fill a long cycle with repeating patterns.