What is Meal Manager?

29 June 2021 13:18

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	Introduction Who is it for? What are the benefits? Who uses Meal Manager? What are the tablet capabilities? How do you book a meal? The Desktop in brief

Introduction

Meal Manager is a cost-effective, paperless administration system designed to transform and simplify the management of the school catering process. Using an integrated web and tablet-based system, single schools or small groups of schools can manage everything from meal selection, production, and consumption through to payment details and analysis. School administrators and head teachers can use Meal Manager to share insights into the running of the kitchen, promoting a consistent, efficient, and beneficial service. Parents/carers and their children have the convenience of selecting their meals in advance at home or children can use the class whiteboard, laptop, or tablet on the day.

Cypad provides a complete system that includes access to a Desktop to manage the system and a tablet for use in the kitchen. Users can access a handy online knowledge base that can take them through. many of the tasks.

Who is it for?

Meal Manager is designed for primary schools or academies that do their in-house catering. We assume the school already has staff who are experienced caterers.

What are the benefits?

Combined with ParentPay, Meal Manager enables the school to:

Reduce waste through accurate meal production
Reduce the need for cash payments
Improve take-up of school meals
Improve communication between stakeholders
Help children learn to make healthy eating choices
Comply with regulatory food practices

Who uses Meal Manager?

School Business Managers

School Business Managers will purchase and manage the system, using the Cypad Desktop to manage the account and the system, and run reports.

Teachers

Teachers use the classroom whiteboard or tablets during morning registration to record meal selections by pupils.

Cooks

Cooks use the Cypad tablet (when supplied) as a low-cost cashless system.

Pupils

Pupils choose meals using the class whiteboard or school tablets, or at home with their parents. A pupil with allergies is only able to select meals that do not contain their allergies.

Parents

Parents use a phone, tablet, or laptop to select their children’s meals in advance and manage their allergies.

What are the tablet's capabilities?

Every task carried out on the tablet has its app.

Meals Chosen

A live summary of meals requested and served, special meals requested, class orders, and meal numbers (free and paid for by key stage).

Sync

Syncing between the tablet and the cloud/desktop normally happens in the background, but the user can also force a sync using the Sync app.

Meal Register

Record meals taken using the tablet.

How do you book a meal?

At home

Parents and children can select meals in advance at home, enabling them to plan more accurately at a time to suit them.

At school

Children choose their meals on the day of service using the school whiteboard, tablet, or teacher’s laptop.

Breaks, breakfast clubs, drinks, theme days, and after-school clubs can be catered for.

The Desktop in brief

Menus module

Add menu items with nutrition and allergen information, create menus and menu templates, and add theme days using the calendar function.

Meals module

View meal transaction data for every child every week, manage students, view a range of meal analysis reports, and create meal messages for the class whiteboard.

Reporting module

Create trading summary reports and single and multiple KPI reports.

Settings module

Manage account, amend site roll numbers, meal prices, and debt limits, and amend user details for school admin, kitchen staff, and teacher.