Create a repeating meal

When the same meal happens every week, you don't schedule each one by hand. A repeating meal holds the pattern — the day, the menu, the policies — and generates the individual meals ahead on a rolling horizon.

Start from the Calendar

1. Open Calendar and press Create meal.

2. You're asked whether this is a one-time meal or a series that repeats. Choose Repeating meal.

Describe the meal

The New repeating meal drawer gathers everything the generated meals will inherit. Give it a name, meal type, and color so it's easy to spot on the calendar.

Signup policy

Whether members sign up ahead, walk in, or both. This sets the default for every meal in the series.

Guest policy

Whether members can bring guests, and whether guest names are required.

Signup deadline

How many hours before the meal signups close, so the kitchen gets a firm count.

Default menu

The menu attached to each generated meal. You can swap it on any single meal later.

Default kitchen roles

The roles used when kitchen shifts spawn for the meal, if you have that turned on.

Set the recurrence and eligibility

1. Choose the days it repeats and the seating template, then set any eligibility rules that limit who can sign up.

   Eligibility rules are optional. Without them, the meal is open to anyone your signup policy allows.

2. Save the repeating meal.

   It appears in the Repeating view of the Calendar, and future meals start filling in on the schedule's horizon.

Manage the series over time

Switch the Calendar to Repeating to see every repeating meal with its status. Each row's actions let you keep it current:

Regenerate horizon

Fills in more upcoming meals if the schedule ran short.

Pause

Stops generating future meals without deleting the series. Existing meals stay put.

Resume

Starts a paused series generating again.