Transcript Create a Standard Menu for Items

ACI FILE & ACI MENUS
WHEN & HOW TO USE ACI IN
FOODPRO
FoodPro Users Conference
July 13, 2015
Presented by:
Stuart Hammond, UGA
Michelle Wellington, UCLA
THINGS TO COVER…
 Look
at the ACI File and how it is used
 Look
at an ACI Menu and how it is
used
 Examples
at UGA and UCLA
ACI FILE
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ACI stands for Average Consumption Items
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Accounts for all of the items served but not detailed in Cycle
Menu or Standard Menu
Examples: - Cereal
- BIBS
- Condiments
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Location\Folders\Average Consumption Items
Three tabs: Patron Count, Detail, Use
Switches
ACI FILE
Patron Tab
Enter Average Weekly Patrons
ACI FILE
Detail Tab
Enter items, inventory or recipe,
and Average Weekly Usage of
each item
Note: If you add Menu
Categories for each item,
reporting by categories can
be determined
ACI FILE
Use Switches
- Enter “1” for meals that item will be served
- Enter “0” for meals that item will not be served
ACI FILE ADDED TO THE
CALENDAR
ACI FILE
FORECASTED ON AND PART OF SERVICE
NEEDS
• Included in Precost
• Needs Added to Order Guide
ACI FILE – ADDITIONAL FEATURES

Sorting by Columns
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Use Switch Template
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Past Period History
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Optional Columns
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Per Patron Consumption
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PPC Cost
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Past Period Usage
ACI Precost Report
ACI FILE – ONE PROBLEM…
It is not displayed on the Website for
nutritional analysis – this is where ACI
Menu comes in!
FoodPro Product and SQL Data
Extract grab Recipes from Cycle,
Standard, and ACI Standard Menus
Also, the FoodPro Web Product and
SQL Data Extract ‘behave’ differently
(More to come on that)
ACI STANDARD MENUS/’MOCK’ MENUS
Used to display ACI Items on the website with Nutrition Information
 What
I call ‘Window Dressing’ – you can be
as granular as you want to be

Splenda Packets

Oregano
People want more information…if you’re
counting calories or adhering to a specific
diet, kids/people want to know all nutrition info
they can – mobile web app helps at point of
service
*ACI Seasons drive production*
ACI MENUS – STEP 1
Create recipes for all Items
ACI MENUS – STEP 2
Create a Standard Menu for Items
ACI MENUS – STEP 3
Add Standard
Menu To FoodPro
Web Preferences
ACI MENUS – STEP 3 (CONTINUED)
Web Preferences
Options:
FoodPro Product:
• All options used for regular
menus apply to ACI Menu
• You can program different
ACI Menus for each
location
SQL Extract:
• Display Meal Name works
• Days to Display works
• All nutritive information is
pulled & displayed
• Short and Long Menu
display feature doesn’t
work
• AIS can speak to this a little
better than me…the data is
grabbed by our in house
web product once it
exports
ACI items
available for
Nutritive
Analysis on
the web
RESULT: NUTRITIVE ANALYSIS - UCLA
ACI items
Nutrition on the
web
Demo…we use SQL
data extract and
had our website
built in house
Start to finish:
ACI Menu
Web Preferences
Display on Web
RESULT: NUTRITIVE ANALYSIS & BUILD YOUR
PLATE – UGA
HTTP://FOODSERVICE.UGA.EDU/LOCATIONS/BOLTON
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Use ACI menu to display
entire weekly rotation of
items, independent of
menu date
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Used at UCLA’s quickservice restaurants for daily
specials, soup-of-the-day
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Mix with “regular” menu
items
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Requires “double entry”,
but still easy to maintain
ALTERNATIVE USE: WEEKLY
ROTATIONS
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Menu category
for each day in
rotation
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Multiple sets
where needed

Specific menu
categories
placed on custom
menu pages
SETUP: ACI MENU ROTATION
Standard Menu
ACI Menu
RESULT:
RENDEZVOUS
LATIN MENU
QUESTIONS?