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Menu/Meal plan

o Menu 1 o Menu 3 o Menu 5

o Menu 2 o Menu 4 o Menu 6

Special dietary requirements

This menu caters for the following special dietary requirements:

Dishes
List the dishes/meals for this meal plan/menu. Explain your rationale for selecting each menu item – what
are its merits?How does each dish address the special dietary requirements of the customer?

Name of dish Rationale/merits How does the dish meet

customer needs?

Variety
Describe how this menu/meal plan includes variety. How have you included a combination of foods to
meet the macro and micro nutrient requirements of your customer/s?

Health
Describe how the combination of dishes or foods that you have chosen will promote the good health of
the customer/s identified in Step 2. How have you selected dishes specific to their needs which will reduce
the incidence of diet related health or wellbeing problems?

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Choice
Describe how you have ensured that your menu/meal plan provides sufficient choice to your customer/s.

Food preparation/cooking methodology

Document the food preparation or cooking method for each dish or item on the menu or meal plan to
maximise the nutritional values of the food. Explain your choices. Use correct culinary terminology.

Consultation
Discuss your potential menu/meal plan with a colleague (for the purposes of this assessment, that might
be another person from the group that you work with in your training kitchen). Describe your discussion –
what feedback did the person you met with provide? Did they give you ideas about how your menu/meal
plan could be improved? Did you incorporate their feedback and how? If you didn’t take their advice on
board, why not?

Document your final menu/meal plan

Document your final menu/meal plan. Ensure that you use correct culinary terminology.

Costing
Use Excel, an equivalent spreadsheet package or specialised software package to cost each menu item by:

 itemising the components of each dish on the menu

 calculating the expenditure items to determine the production costs (expenditure items should
include ingredients, labour, operational costs of the kitchen, wastage)

 calculating portion yields and costs

 assessing the cost-effectiveness of proposed dishes against budgetary constraints and choose
products that provide high yield.

Don’t forget to attach your costings spreadsheets when you submit your work.

The name of the costing file for this menu is: __________________________________________

Gathering feedback
Gather at least two types of feedback from your customer group about this menu. You must select the
two feedback methods from this list:
Feedback types

 customer satisfaction discussions with:

o customers

o employees during the course of each business day

o customer surveys

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 improvements suggested by:

o customers

o managers

o peers

o staff

o supervisors

o suppliers

 regular staff meetings that involve menu discussions

 satisfaction discussions with:

o customers

o allied health professionals

o dietitians

o medical specialists

 seeking staff suggestions for menu items.

Describe how you gathered feedback on this menu. What method did you use? What feedback did you
gather? How did you incorporate the feedback? Summarise the changes that you made.

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