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Creating and Managing Textures

This screen contains settings for Care Plan Setup for Textures. You can select from a database of textures, add and edit customized texture names, and establish lists of suitable and unsuitable menu items. 

Note

Textures are shared across Essentials, Menus, and Recipes and Production. Any change updates all facilities within your organization.

Note

You can copy unsuitable menu items from one texture to another texture reducing the manual time and effort associated with setting this up.

  1. Administrator > Care Plan Setup > Textures.

  2. Click Texture Name.

  • My Textures - Click on texture name to make changes. You can edit the name or add custom textures by renaming the Custom Texture options at the bottom of the list.

  •  Active - Select textures you use in your organization.

  • ONR (Ordering Not Required) (Menus enabled) - When selected, residents with an ONR texture in their diet order do not appear in Unfed Residents or Meal Orders.

  • Tray Ticket Note (Menus enabled) - Shows on meal ordering and resident's meal ticket when the texture is assigned to their diet order. For example, Extra Gravy/Sauce for a Mechanical Soft diet.

  • Copy - Select the texture name then click Copy to copy all unsuitable menu items saved for this texture to another texture that is similar. 

  • Change - Select the texture name, then click Change to add or remove suitable or unsuitable menu items from a texture.

  • You can print a list of texture names or unsuitable and suitable menu items by selecting the texture and choosing the appropriate option under Print Report.

  • Show Unused provides a list of textures that are not used in any resident chart.

  • You can place a meal order for a resident on an ONR texture by going to Order Manager > Resident Search. Search and select Resident to navigate to Meal Ordering.

  • After creating, copying, or editing a texture, run the Unsuitable or Suitable Menu Items reports to verify your work.

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