Meals & Catering: Menu cycles, dietary restrictions, RDA analysis and meal billing

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EduPrime Core

Meals & Catering in the EduPrime: Menu cycles, dietary restrictions, RDA analysis and meal billing

Who eats, on which pass

Every diner gets a numbered subscription — monthly pass, semester pass, flex swipes or pay-as-you-go — on a draft, active, paused, ended and cancelled workflow where Activate, Pause, Resume and End each refuse the states they do not apply to. One subscription per student, plan and academic year is enforced by the app, bulk subscribe signs up a whole class in one pass, an ended list is your renewal queue, and the swipe log stamps every tap with its mess, method and time.

Nutrition you can defend to a parent

Record calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre, sodium, sugar, iron and vitamin C per menu line, per meal, per age band — and the app scores the calories against the seeded RDA target for that band automatically. Recipes underneath hold the dish, serving size, prep time and instructions, and total their own cost and calories per serving from the ingredient lines.

Allergies treated as the medical matter they are

Critical allergy alerts carry the allergen tags, the known reaction, whether an epipen is required and exactly where it is kept, plus the emergency contact and phone and the date it was last reviewed — the screen opens filtered to the critical ones, grouped by alert level. Dietary profiles add diet type, six allergy switches and a medical diet note; a medical certificate can be uploaded with its issuer and expiry, and the Approve / Reject buttons are gated to the Meals Nutritionist role, with the rejection reason kept on the record.

From this week’s menu to the vendor order

Every ingredient becomes a real product on creation — average-costed in a Kitchen Ingredients category, purchasable, with its preferred vendor written as supplier info — so stock on hand and purchase history are one click from the ingredient card. A purchase plan explodes the menu’s recipes by your estimated servings, and Generate Vendor RFQs raises one purchase order per vendor. Vendor orders get their own list, and the plan flips itself to Received when the receipts match.

Where the food money actually goes

Waste, cost and utilization are stored fields, not spreadsheet arithmetic, so they group and average straight out of the box: waste analytics by day and meal, cost per meal by meal type, utilization by mess. Students rate the food out of five from the parent portal — one rating per student, day and meal — a one- or two-star rating submitted there flags itself for review, and rating analytics groups the lot by score and meal.

More than one mess, more than one sitting

Service locations give each mess or canteen its own code, capacity, address, mess manager and four serving windows — breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner, each with a start and an end. Subscriptions name a primary mess, swipes and service rows record where the meal was taken, a service row is unique per date, meal and location, and the service dashboard, waste log and swipe log all filter and group by mess.

Pending Dietary Approval

Special diets waiting for approval: diet type, certificate expiry and allergens.

To Renew

Ended subscriptions, ready for next term.

What's inside

Everything in Meals & Catering

48 items in 11 areas, every one shipping with the app today.

Service
- Service Dashboard
- Active
- Attendance Scanner
- Bulk Subscribe
- Swipe Log
- Pending Dietary Approval
- Waste Log
- To Renew
- Generate Daily Service
Menus
- Menu Plans
- Daily Board
- Daily Menus
- Allergy Alerts
- Recipes
- Dietary Profiles
- Seasonal / Holiday
- Nutritionist Queue
Purchasing
- Ingredients
- Student Feedback
- Allergens
- Rating Analytics
- Purchase Plans
- Vendor Orders
Configuration
- Service Locations
- RDA Targets
- All Attendance
- Weekly Menu Lines
Analytics
- Waste Rate
- Cost per Meal
- Utilization
Documents it prints
- Meal Card
- Daily Service Summary
- Monthly Nutrition Report
- Purchase Plan
- Vendor Order
It runs by itself
- Meals · Aggregate Daily ServiceRuns daily
- Meals · Flag Expiring Medical CertificatesRuns daily
- EduPrime · Ensure Class/Department Analytic AccountsRuns daily
Roles it ships
- Meals Officer
- Meals Manager
- Meals Nutritionist
Guided assistants
- Bulk Meals Subscription
- Generate Daily Service Rows
- Convert Purchase Plan to Purchase Orders
What it sends
- EduPrime: Dietary Profile Approved
- EduPrime: Meals Subscription Renewal Due
More in this app
- Menus your cooks can actually work fromA menu plan carries its meal type, monthly fee, vegetarian, halal and kosher flags and its allergen warning, then a weekly menu grid with breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner on each of the seven days — one line per day, enforced. Plans run draft → active → inactive, and only an active plan can be subscribed to, serviced or purchased against. Seasonal menus flagged with their own label sit beside the standard one for Ramadan, exam week or Christmas, on their own list.
- Planned, served, wasted — on one boardGenerate the day’s service rows from the menu plan in one wizard, then let the app fill actual served from the attendance log. It derives absentees, waste rate, utilization rate and total cost from the cost per serving you set, and a daily check re-aggregates yesterday’s rows that are still in draft. The scanner screen opens filtered to today, defaulted to RFID, and attendance is unique per student, day and meal so no one is counted twice.

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What Meals & Catering works with

Meals & Catering shares one database with the rest of the EduPrime and BridgeERP: these are the apps it already talks to, with nothing to buy in between.