GuideMenu & Dishes

Planning a Week of Lunch Specials, Fast and With Little Waste

A lunch menu pays off through speed and predictability. If different ingredients are needed every day, food cost and waste go up.

Works with ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, including the free versions.

The matching prompt in Prep List plans five dishes from Monday to Friday within your price range, creates a shared shopping list, shows which ingredients are used more than once and writes the texts for your board and Instagram.

What you get

Five dishes from Monday to Friday with descriptions
A shared shopping list
Which ingredients are used more than once
Texts for the board and Instagram

What the result looks like

Example for a neighbourhood bistro, shortened

Lunch specials, week 46 · each £10.95, with soup £13.50 Mon · Lentil and sausage stew with crusty bread Tue · Chicken leg with root vegetables and mash Wed · Squash risotto with Gruyère (vegetarian) Thu · Beef and ale casserole with red cabbage and mash Fri · Pan-fried hake with creamy lentils and parsley Used more than once: mash (Tue, Thu), lentils (Mon, Fri), root vegetables (Tue, plus trimmings for the Thu stock) Board text: Today's lunch: beef and ale casserole just like Gran's, with red cabbage and mash. £10.95. From noon, while the pot lasts.

Prompt 058 in Prep List

Lunch Menu for a Week

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Good to know

A lunch menu pays off through speed and predictability. Ingredients that appear on several days lower food cost and waste.

Plan ingredients so that they appear on two or three days. It lowers food cost and waste.
Every dish should be on the table in under ten minutes. Lunch guests have little time.
Post the weekly plan early on Monday. Many lunch guests plan their week on Monday.

Frequently asked questions

What should a lunch menu cost?

That depends heavily on location and clientele. What matters is that the price fits your food cost and that guests can decide quickly at lunchtime, so one price for all dishes works well.

How many dishes does a lunch menu need?

One or two dishes a day are enough, one of them vegetarian. Less choice means faster service.

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