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Menu templates

Menu templates are reusable week-patterns that can be applied to your menu planning calendar. Instead of building the same menu from scratch each week, you create a template once and apply it to future weeks.

Why use menu templates​

If your menus follow a cycle (for example, a 4-week rotating menu), templates save significant time. Create each week of the cycle as a template, then apply them in sequence each planning period.

Creating a template​

  1. Go to Administration → Menu templates
  2. Click Add template
  3. Give the template a name (for example, "Week A – Spring menu")
  4. Add the meals for each day of the week
  5. Save

Applying a template​

When planning your menu calendar, you can choose to apply a saved template to a selected week. This copies all the meals from the template into that week, which you can then adjust if needed.

For more on working with the menu calendar, see Menu planning.