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Overview: Easilys enables food service managers to manage dietary and nutritional constraints, ensuring meals meet specific requirements for specialist guest categories, such as children, seniors, or individuals with dietary restrictions.
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Dietary and nutritional constraints
Easilys incorporates guidelines from GEMRCN (Groupe d'Étude des Marchés de Restauration Collective et Nutrition), which establishes standards for collective catering. These include dietary recommendations and frequency rules to ensure balanced, healthy diets. This feature streamlines meal planning by automating alerts for inconsistencies, reducing manual errors, and allowing adjustments based on guest categories or meal types.
Creating Nutrition Families
Nutritional families must be created before setting up nutritional constraints. These families group similar food types, simplifying meal planning and ensuring alignment with dietary requirements.
Navigate to Nutrition > Nutrition Families.
Click + Create a nutrition family in the top-right corner.
Fill in the required details:
Name: Assign a clear, descriptive name to the family (e.g., "Whole Grains" or "Raw Vegetables").
Color: Choose a distinct color for visual identification.
Recommended menu items: Link the family to relevant meal elements (e.g., appetizers, main courses).
Subfamilies: For examples, "Bread" can include subfamilies like "Whole Wheat Bread" or "Multigrain Bread."
Click Save to finalize.
Notes: Associating families with meal components ensures alignment during meal planning. For instance, "Raw Vegetables" can be tied to appetizers rather than desserts.
Setting Constraints for Nutritional Families
Constraints define the frequency and limits for food items in meal plans, ensuring compliance with dietary guidelines.
Navigate to Nutrition > Constraints on nutrition families.
Select + Create to define a new constraint.
Complete the following fields:
Guest Type: Select the group (e.g., "Children," "Seniors"). New guests can be added or edited via the gear icon.
Nutrition Family: Choose the nutrition family to apply the constraint (e.g., "Red Meat").
Frequency constraints by meal type: Set a minimum and maximum frequency (e.g., "2-5 times") over a 20-meal cycle. Example: "Raw Vegetables" appear 2-5 times at lunch but only 1-3 times at dinner.Select Create to confirm. The constraint will now appear on the list.
Notes: Constraints are customizable for each guest type and meal service. Alerts notify planners if meal plans fall outside defined frequency ranges.
Integrating Constraints into Meal Plans
Once nutrition families and constraints are created, they can be integrated into meal plans for seamless compliance with dietary requirements.
For more details, see Complete a meal plan.