📌 Applies to app version 2023.02 or later

Dietary terms are the first thing you need in order to have catering management set up for your organisation. This is to make sure that everyone who will later order from your menus can filter out food according to their dietary restrictions or preferences.

For more guidance about allergens, refer to this article: https://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/media/document/14-Allergens%2016Nov21.pdf 

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For dietary restrictions, decide the ones that your organisation should have indicated in menus, and then add them. This can be a vegetarian, vegan, kosher, gluten-free, or any other dietary term. By default, we offer the following:

Dietary Terms	Vegetarian Vegan Halal Kosher
Allergens	Dairy Nuts Sulphites

On the Dietary Terms page, you can see 25 rows per page of the terms that your organisation has created. You can move forward or backward through the pages of existing records. Also, you can do the following:

• Search for a specific dietary term
• Filter existing terms by type: Allergen or Dietary
• Delete or edit the selected terms
• Add a new record for dietary terms

To add a dietary term, indicate the following:

• Name that will be understandable by all users within your organisation who will be using catering service.
• Type: Allergen or Dietary.
• Add image or icon to be displayed on menus.

Click Save to add this dietary or allergy term and use it for menu items.

📌 Applies to app version 2023.02 or later

To be able to create menu items and then menus, you need to have at least one supplier in the system. Later, you can sort catering orders by supplier.

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On the Catering Suppliers page, you can add new suppliers and view the list of existing ones associated with providing the catering service within your organisation. The list of suppliers has the following columns:

• Supplier name
• Description
• Lead Time

You can sort any column in ascending or descending order in the suppliers table, import or export lists, add a new supplier record, or edit the existing one.

To view supplier details, click the row or select the Edit button next to it. The Supplier Details page opens.

You can edit the fields and save your actions, cancel your changes, or delete this supplier entirely.

📌 Applies to app version 2023.02 or later

For catering orders to properly function, there must be at least one order policy for your organisations' building. It is used to restrict time frames of when catering items can be served and any associated preparation time needed.

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Create separate policies for all categories such as hot and cold meals, snacks and drinks to make sure that they are ordered with enough time in advance. Create a separate order policy for all-day items, another order policy could be for lunchtime menu items, and so on. Order policy makes the menu dynamic based on how far in advance the person books.

Order policy is primarily defined by the kitchen staff and applied to one or multiple menu items.

If you are defining the order policy for the kitchen staff, make sure to align with them first. It is essential to provide operation time (food preparation and delivery) and operating hours of the kitchen. Then the menus will be built accordingly, depending on whether there's sufficient time for preparation of the item.

On the Order Policy page, you can search for an existing order policy, delete, edit, or add a new one.

Adding an order policy

To add a new order policy:

1. Click +Add
2. Fill in the fields in the popup window.
   
   1. Define Policy Name.
   2. Add Policy Description.
   3. (inactive field) Policy ID is assigned by the system after you save the order policy.
   4. Define the time range for kitchen operating hours from and to. You can use this option to create different order policies for different menu items to later dynamically display items in the menu for a certain space.
   5. (required) Add your internal notice in plain text in the Advanced Notice field.
   6. Set preparation time in hours. Consider these examples:

3. Save your settings or cancel adding an order policy.

Deleting an order policy

To delete an order policy, first reassign a catering item attached to it. Do this in the popup that lists all related items that need to be sorted.

Click OK to confirm reassigning the order items, and then confirm all changes and deleting the order policy.

📌 Applies to app version 2023.02 or later

In Catering Items, you see a list of available catering menu items that you use when building a menu. 

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See the following columns in the Catering Items table:

• Item Code
• Description
• Cost
• Supplier
• Classification – type of item (beverage, snack, or food)
• Status - available or not
• Action

You can edit, add new menu items, enable or disable them. Also, you can search for an item by its name or description or filter them by status, classification, and supplier.

Adding a catering item

Add a new catering menu item directly in this view by clicking the +ADD button at the top right of the Catering Items page. A Catering Menu Items Details window opens for you to enter relevant details where certain fields are mandatory to fill in.

• (mandatory) Classification - whether this is beverage, food, or snack for it to appear later in menu selection.
• (mandatory) Name
• (mandatory) Description
• Nutritional Information
• (mandatory) Order Policy
• Supplier
• The Enabled toggle. Turn it on to enable the entire Catering Item, make it visible for others in the menus that use this item.
• Cost to the end user.
• Retail price for tracking any external catering vendor prices.
• (mandatory) Add/Select Image

After you've entered details for the catering item, click Save, and you will be prompted to indicate Allergens and/or Dietary type for this catering item. 

Note: If you don't indicate allergens or dietary type for the item, you will be returned to editing the item.

Saved items can be now used to build a menu.

Editing a catering item

To edit a menu item, click the pencil icon in the Action column on the main Catering Items page. You will be able to edit data in the same fields as when you did to create an item.

📌 Applies to app version 2023.02 or later

Catering menu is a set of catering items that is shown to the end user given the time of the order and notice period for catering items that is set by the order policy. It means that the user will only see those items on the menu that are available and can be prepared for their space booking, and there's sufficient time allowed for kitchen operation time and food or drink preparation time.

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Create catering menus for each building separately if your organisation has more than one office building. A menu can then be assigned to the whole building, and there can be a menu defined for one or more spaces.

⚠️ But a space can have one menu only. For now, we recommend not to apply any user role restrictions to the menu until further functionality is introduced.

After you create and confirm the booking, you can add catering and only then you will see what's available on the active menu.

On the Catering Menu page, you can view the list of created menus. From here, you can delete, disable, or add a new menu if you have these permissions enabled for your role.

To add a new menu, do the following:

1. Click +ADD from the Catering Menus page.
2. Fill in the fields in the Menu popup that opens
   1. Indicate Menu ID, Name, Short Description.
   2. Set the dates for this menu to be available.
      Note: Keep end date of the menu far in advance for people who book far in the future to see the active menu. Otherwise you'll need to manually move forward the duration of the active menu.
   3. Add items from the categories Beverage, Snack, Food that were added previously in Catering Items.
   4. ❌ For now, we recommend not using the Available to Roles setting, or you can allow all users to see the menu. Otherwise, the space booking permission and menu availability permission may conflict and prevent users from being able to make catering orders.
   5. Set the Status to active or inactive.
      Use this option to prepare menus in advance or keep them after they expire to reuse later.
   6. Add a menu image that will be visible when selecting this menu.
3. Save or cancel your actions.

Now, depending on what you have set, your menu is stored in OneLens 360 and will be visible to your organisation in Flex on the set dates and if set as active.

📌 Applies to app version 2023.02 or later

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In Catering Orders, you can see the list of all orders within the specified date range, for whom this order is, meeting location, date and time of the meeting when the catering service is requested. From here, you can filter by status and task owner, search by name or host, and manage catering orders.

Select an order to do the following:

• Approve an order (if you have appropriate role permissions)
• Set the status for a catering task to In-progress
• Mark a catering task as Resolved
• Cancel a catering task

Select an order to view or edit the order details.

Opening an order provides more details about the following:

• What food is ordered
• In what quantity
• Host name
• Room location
• When they asked it to be delivered
• When they've asked it to be cleaned up. If this is not indicated, clean-up time will be set to the associated booking end time.
• Billing info according to cost codes
• Internal notes if any, you can add yours
• Cost

When created, a catering order is assigned automatically to the person defined as Catering Manager in the booking policy, gets automatically approved and moves on to processing. Read more about Catering Manager role within booking policies here: Catering Manager and Floor Manager roles.

When the order is completed, Catering Manager changes the status to Delivered, and then Cleared to indicate that the room has been cleaned up.