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Introduction to menus
Building from recipes, menus are the next logical step for a caterer planning a food service.
A menu is simply a list a recipes, usually organised into sections such as starters, mains, vegetables, desserts, etc.
The process of entering a menu is virtually identical to that you have already discovered for entering a recipe. The only difference is that you are not selecting ingredients to add to it, you are selecting recipes. Recipes that can be any combination of those in your own cookbook and/or those from the Set cookbook.
First though, let's begin by looking at the main "Menus" page (click on the Menus / Open/New option).
As with recipes, you can access all of the menus that are available to you; both those in your own cookbook and those in the Set cookbook. You can switch between the ones that you see by clicking on the small "radio" buttons at the top left of that page.
Underneath those radio buttons is a list of the folders, in which your and the Set menus are stored. There is another section of this tutorial that discusses folders in detail, so they are not covered here. Suffice to say that if you click on a folder name on the left hand side, the list of menus within that folder is displayed on the right hand side.
You can then double-click on one of the menus listed to "open" that menu's details, or you can click on the "New menu" action button to begin the process of creating a new menu definition.
Alongside the radio buttons is a Search box. When you enter a word into this box and click Search, the system will show you a list of menus whose title contain that word. The search will include ALL the menus that are available to you - your own and those in the Set cookbook. This can be really useful if you are looking for a particular menu but you are unsure where it is located in your or the Set folders.
On the next pages, the various sections of a menu definition will be described in detail.
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