Diet Types Explained
- Vegan: A diet that includes fruits, vegetables, grains, and pulses, but excludes honey, dairy, meat, gelatine, animal stock, and fats
- Vegetarian: A vegetarian diet includes fruits, vegetables, grains, and pulses along with eggs, dairy, and honey but excludes dairy, meat, gelatine, animal stock, and fats
- Pescatarian: A diet includes fruits, vegetables, grains, and pulses along with fish and other seafood, but excludes dairy, meat, gelatine, animal stock, and fats
- Halal: Food that adheres to Islamic law, as defined in the Koran
- No Beef: A diet that excludes all beef products
- No Pork: A diet that excludes all pork products.
Student Diet Types
If the student has a specific Diet Type (i.e. Halal), click the Student [1] in the Students table, in the Edit Student window click the Diet Type tab [2] and click the Halal check box [3] option before clicking click Save [4].
Setting a Student’s Diet Type will restrict showing Menu Items that have not been marked as safe for the Diet Type in all Meal Selection channels (Manager App, Whiteboard, Parent Bookings and Tablet).
Vegan Diet Type
If a Student is marked as Vegan, they can select menu items marked as 'Suitable for Vegan'. Menu items 'Suitable for Vegetarian / Halal / Pescatarian' can be selected when 'Suitable for Vegetarian' is also marked.
Vegetarian Diet Type
If a Student is marked as a Vegetarian, they can select menu items marked as 'Suitable for Vegetarian / Vegan'. Menu items 'Suitable for Halal / Pescatarian' can be selected when 'Suitable for Vegetarian' is also marked.
Pescatarian Diet Type
If a Student is marked as Pescatarian, they can select menu items marked as 'Suitable for Pescatarian / Vegan / Vegetarian'. Menu items 'Suitable for Halal' can be selected when 'Suitable for Pescatarian' is also marked.
Halal Diet Type
If a Student is marked as Halal, they can select menu items marked as 'Suitable for Halal / Vegetarian / Vegan / Pescatarian'. Menu items marked as 'Contains Beef' can be selected when 'Suitable for Halal' is also marked.
No Beef Diet Type
If a Student is marked as 'No Beef' they cannot select menu items marked as 'Contains Beef'.
No Pork Diet Type
If a Student is marked as 'No Pork' they cannot select menu items marked as 'Contains Pork'.
Legacy Conflicting Diet Types
When an existing client is moved to the new Diet Type logic a script will be run to identify and edit any conflicting Diet Types. The script will be forced to remove the least impactful Diet Type i.e. if a Menu Item is set to Suitable for Halal and Contains Pork then Halal will be removed to minimize the risk of a Menu Item that contains Pork being made available to a Muslim student
Conflicting Legacy Diet Types:
- Suitable for Halal + Contains Pork
- Suitable for Vegetarian + Contains Pork and, or Contains Beef