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MPP Online Creating and Using Meal Plans in Menu Profitbuilder Pro `

Menu ProfitBuilder Pro Online – Creating and Using Meal Plans in MPP

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Table of Contents

BEFORE YOU BEGIN…. ............................................................................................................................................. 3

OVERVIEW OF MEAL PLANS IN MPP ................................................................................................................... 4

CREATING A MEAL PLAN IN MPP ......................................................................................................................... 6



Before you begin….

This short video will walk you through the key steps for creating and using meal plans in Menu ProfitBuilder Pro Online (MPP). It is recommended that prior to using meal plans in MPP, you have viewed and understand the following videos and documentation. Videos:

MPP Online - Recipe and Menu Item Pre-Work – PDF & YouTube Video

MPP Online - Creating Complex Recipes – PDF & YouTube Video

MPP Online - Creating Complex Menu Items – PDF & YouTube Video

Documents:

MPP Online - Pre-Work defines all steps that should be taken prior to entering recipes or menu items.

MPP Online - Complex Menu Items - This document fully demonstrates the steps involved in creating a complex menu item using non-USF products.



Overview of Meal Plans in MPP

Meal Plans are a useful component of Menu Profitbuilder pro, especially for users who wish to determine food cost and gross profit for catered events or other large meal production.

A meal plan allows users to blend a combination of ingredients, recipe servings and menu items into a single “event” or daypart. This simplifies cost analysis, and quantifies the products required to produce the event.

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By using Meal Plans, the user can price and analyze food cost, and gross profit for catering events or other large meal production.

Meal Plans also allow the user to produce a requirements list of ingredients, blending the total cases required for all ingredients into a single “pull from inventory” list. This list displays the products that will be required to produce the meal plan according to the number of servings needed.



Creating a Meal Plan in MPP

1. To begin, start on the US food dot com home screen, and click the menus tab.

2. Next, from the pull down menu that appears, select ‘Meal Plans.”

3. Click the ‘Add New Meal Plan’ link

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4. On the Meal Plan Detail screen that appears, enter the meal plan name, as well as the price for the entire event. In this example we are charging $18.95 per person for 100 guests, so the total sale price is $1895.00. Finally, click the ‘Save’ button.

5. The detail screen is now updated, the meal plan is given a unique ID number, and we can begin to add ingredients, recipes, or menu items.

6. For our Italian dinner for 100, we will start by adding 75 servings of our lasagna menu item. To do this, enter lasagna in the search window, and select the menu items radio button as the search source.

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7. Select the lasagna menu item by clicking its checkbox, and click the “Add to Meal Plan’ button.

8. When the Meal Plan Detail is displayed, our lasagna has been added. Now enter 75 for the number of servings.

9. Notice how our meal plan cost, food cost percentage and gross profit calculations have updated with the addition of the lasagna to our meal plan. Next we will add another menu item.

10. Next we will add another menu item. Again, we will enter the search term and select menu item as the search source. In this example we will add pasta with marinara sauce.

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11. Locate the pasta from the menu item list, click the checkbox, and click ‘Add to Meal Plan.’

12. The pasta is now added to the meal plan. Now enter the number of servings as 25.

13. We will need to enter some disposable flatware for this event. We will search for this in the US foods product catalog.

14. On the search results screen that is displayed, select the desired forks and enter 120 for the quantity and each as the unit of measure. Notice the green check mark in the ‘OG’ column. This indicates that this item is on the user’s current order guide. Finally click the green ‘Add to Meal Plan’ button.

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15. The 120 forks have now been added to the meal plan, and the cost has been updated to reflect this addition.

16. Continue adding all required ingredients, recipes and menu items for the meal plan. When all

items have been entered, we can begin analysis of the financials for this meal plan.

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17. As we can see from the Meal Plan header, the cost to produce our dinner for 100 people is $457.72. Our food cost percentage is 24.15%, and our gross profit dollars are $1437.28.

18. To assist with planning and ordering for our event, we can produce a theoretical case usage report for our meal plan. To do this, return to the meal plan summary screen, and select options for the desired meal plan. Click the ‘Options’ button and select ‘Theoretical Case Usage.’

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19. The Theoretical Case Usage Report for this meal plan is displayed. This report displays the

precise cost and number of cases required to produce the meal plan including the contents of each recipe and menu item. This is useful when ordering for the event, or calculating the impact the event will have on current inventory on-hand.

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