Copy & Paste Menus

Use the Menu Calendar to copy and paste menus to past and future days. When you paste a menu, the meal components are copied to the days you select. However, estimated attendance, estimated quantities, actual attendance, actual quantities served, and menu notes are not copied.

Required Permissions: You must have the Plan Menus permission enabled on your account to copy and paste menus on the Menu Calendar. Sponsors must enable this feature for sponsored centers.

Copy & Paste Menus for a Single Day

  1. From the menu to the left, click Menus/Attendance.
  2. Click Menu Calendar.
  3. Click Copy Menus in the top-left corner. The Copy Menus pop-up opens.
  4. Select Infants, Non-Infants, or both.
  5. Click Day.
  6. Click the Select a Day box and enter the day to copy. You can also click  to select the date from a calendar.
  7. In the How Often Should Menu Repeat field, specify how often this menu should repeat: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly).
  8. Set up repetition frequency according to your selection in the How Often Should Menu Repeat field.
  9. Specify when to stop repeating this menu:
    • End After: Select the End After option. Then, click the Occurrences box and enter the number of occurrences.
    • End By: Select the End By option. Then, click the Select a Day box and enter the date on which to stop repeating the menu.
  10. Click Continue.
  11. At the confirmation prompt, review your selections and click Copy Menus.

Copy & Paste Menus for Multiple Days

  1. From the menu to the left, click Menus/Attendance.
  2. Click Menu Calendar.
  3. Click Copy Menus in the top-left corner. The Copy Menus pop-up opens.
  4. Select Infants, Non-Infants, or both.
  5. Click Multi-Day.
  6. In the What Days Would You Like to Copy Your Menus From section, select the days you need to copy. Enter the first date in the first box, and enter the last date in the second box. You can also click  to select dates from a calendar.
  7. Click the Begin Pasting On box and enter the day on which to begin pasting your menus.  You can also click  to select dates from a calendar.
  8. Specify whether to skip weekends. Weekends are set to skip by default. 
  9. Click Continue.
  10. At the confirmation prompt, review your selections, and click Copy Menus

Note: When copying menus for an entire month to a new month, we recommend that you copy from and to the first Monday of each month to the last day of each month. We also recommend that you do not skip weekends, so the menus copy to the correct days.



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