Mass Catering - menu compiler
The basic use of this is to take a bunch of recipes work out the quantities for the number of servings requested, and finally produce scaled up versions of each recipe as well as a complete shopping list.
Example usage:
./compile_menu.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-p] [menu]
Compile a menu and calculate the required quantities.
positional arguments:
menu YAML file describing menu.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show help message
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Output directory
-v, --verbose Verbose output, printing explicit menu parsing and
adding of items.
-r ROUND, --round ROUND
Set rounding to specified number of decimal places (default=2).
-p, --pdf-generation Use pandoc to generate pdf from all markdown files in menu
- requires pandoc and latex
Compile md to pdf requires pandoc and latex installations.
Standards
Convention when creating a recipe, is that all ingredients are defined in the singular.
If an item does not exist, add it to the unit_registry, with the average weight of that item, so that an item weight can be calculated instead of number of items.
Generic items can included, without adding to the unit registry, through the use of 'quantity', which is used as a dimensionless quantity, to allow for quick addition of items.