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Role
UX Designer / UX Researcher
Year
2024
Customer Problems
Meal Planning was Time-Intensive and Repetitive: Staff often planned meals weekly or monthly, but many menus followed similar structures. Without a way to copy or bulk add meals, they wasted time manually re-entering the same info..
Poor Visibility of Long-Term Meal Planning: Without the ability to plan in batches or duplicate from previous schedules, it was hard to map out future meals or prepare for upcoming needs like holidays or special diets.
Limited Flexibility when Managing Multiple Homes: For care homes managing different houses or units, reapplying a successful meal plan across multiple groups was clunky and time-consuming without bulk actions.
Feature Overview
The Meal Plan Bulk Add & Copy feature was designed to make food scheduling faster, smarter, and more consistent across the home.. It empowers staff to reuse and scale meal plans without repetitive manual entry.
Goals
Save time and reduce repetitive admin work for care staff.
Ensure dietary consistency and compliance with health guidelines.
Minimize errors and improve coordination between planning and kitchen staff.
Make long-term and multi-YP planning more efficient and less stressful.
User Journey 1
Home manager wants to bulk add a meal plan for a number of Young Persons (YPs)
User Journey 2
Home manager wants to bulk copy created meal plans and paste for same set of YP, but on different days.
Key Capabilities
Copy entire weekly/monthly meal plans from previous dates or templates.
Bulk add meals across multiple days with just a few clicks.
Save frequently used meal plans as templates for future use.
Impact Overview
The Bulk Add & Copy feature transforms the way care homes handle meal planning; saving time, improving consistency, and supporting nutritional care with less administrative burden.
Allows staff to quickly replicate full meal plans across days, weeks, or even months, cutting planning time down dramatically.
Reduces repetitive manual entry, freeing up hours each month for more meaningful, child-focused tasks.
Makes it easy to reuse approved, balanced meal plans, ensuring children consistently receive meals that meet dietary and health standards.