Orders & kitchen
Review orders, prepare meals, record service and understand food-program records.
- Viewing Daily Meal Counts and ParticipationUse Today to review meal activity for a selected date, then inspect individual records when a total needs explanation.
- Using the Kitchen View and Daily Kitchen DigestUse Kitchen for current preparation information and the digest as a scheduled staff snapshot.
- Viewing and Filtering Meal OrdersUse the order ledger to find a child’s meal, review its selection and status, or export a focused list.
- Placing a Meal Order for a ChildAuthorized staff can place an order on a child’s behalf from the order ledger.
- Updating or Cancelling a Meal OrderCheck whether you need to change the meal selection or record a final status. The Update control is a status action.
- Recording Meals as Served, Cancelled, or No-ShowRecord the actual outcome of an ordered meal so the kitchen record reflects what happened.
- Printing the Kitchen Meal ListPrint a preparation sheet for one service date and meal type. The sheet includes orders currently in Ordered status.
- Exporting Kitchen Meal Data to CSVDownload the selected day and meal’s active kitchen orders as a spreadsheet file.
- Managing Food Program and CACFP Meal RecordsFood program is a separate workspace for centers whose program has been configured and enabled. Ordinary meal menus and orders do not establish food-program claim readiness.