đ˘ This article covers the new Menu experience. If your account looks different, youâre using the old version (see guides here). The new version is rolling out slowly and not on all accounts yet.
Brightwheelâs Menu planning feature helps providers create and manage detailed food menus by room, saving time and keeping your staff informed!
You can build reusable menu templates, add meal components using the food item library, duplicate menus across days or rooms, and export menus as CSV or PDF for compliance reporting.
Create a menu
To create a menu, start by building individual meals for snacks, breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Then add food items and meal components, including custom items, from the food library (for example, whole milk). Once created, it is saved as a reusable template that can be assigned out to rooms and dates as needed.
Log in on the web
Click My School > Menu in the sidebar
From the Menus tab, hit + Create menu
Build the menu and assign it to rooms
đĄCreation tips:
Save time by copying meals to other days or duplicating entire weeks to create multi-week menus. Simply hover over a meal or week to click the three-dot
menu to copy. If you operate on weekends, enable Show weekends to add meals there.
Duplicate and move meals across days
If you have repeating meals, you can easily copy it to a different day or move the entire meal.
Simply hover your cursor over a meal and click the
three dots to reveal the following options:
Move to - For moving the meal to a different day
Copy to - For duplicating the meal to another day
