Setup

Configure meal types, serving windows, and meal plans

Meal types & serving windows

Open Meals → Settings. Enable each meal type your chapter serves and choose the days it's offered. For each, set a serving window: when service starts and stops, plus an order-by cutoff.

The cutoff is the deadline for members to reserve a meal or add guest plates. After the cutoff they can still switch Going ↔ Late plate or cancel, but can't add new plates.

Meal plans

Turn on meal plans to give members a weekly meal count. Offer one or more plans (for example 7, 10, or 14 meals per week) and members pick one.

• Grace meals — let members exceed their plan by a small number before they're capped.
• Require approval — hold members' plan changes until an admin approves them.
• Weekly limit — choose Block (members can't reserve past their limit) or Warn (they can go over, with a warning). Guest plates count toward the limit either way.

Roles

Members with the Meals Admin permission can edit settings, post menus, manage reservation lists, and run shift scheduling.

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