Set the running order for each day's scheduled recipes so the floor makes them in the sequence that keeps allergen cleanings to a minimum.
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Thursday's board puts four recipes in the Production room: two plain blends, a base sauce, and a peanut sauce. Run the peanut sauce first and every batch after it waits on a full allergen washdown. Run it last and you clean once, at the end of the day. The Schedule list is where you set that sequence — the running order for every day your plans put work on the floor. Kitchen+
The list gathers every across all your plans into one place, oldest date first. Each row names the recipe, its date and department, and the quantity scheduled — plus the quantity produced once the floor starts logging output against it.
Two things on the row tell you where its order stands:
Narrow the list with the date range, department, and recipe search at the top when a single room or week is all you care about.
You sequence one department's recipes on one date at a time. A day that runs recipes in two rooms gets its own order in each.
Open the day's order
Find a recipe on the day you want to sequence and select Set order (or Update order). The dialog opens with every recipe that department runs on that date, listed in its current order.
Read the cleaning tally
Under the recipes, Bettr counts the allergen cleanings your current order forces. Each one is an — minutes the crew loses between batches, so fewer is better.
Set the sequence
Type the position each recipe should run in — 1 runs first — and the list reorders as you go. Or select Suggest order to let Bettr arrange the day for the fewest cleanings, which usually means running the recipes with the most allergens last.
Save the order
Select Save. Back on the list, the day's recipes now carry their numbered Order badges, and the sequence is ready to reach the floor.
Let Suggest order do the sorting
On a day with several allergen-bearing recipes, Suggest order finds a sequence that keeps the tally as low as it can go, so you clean once at the end rather than between every batch. Adjust any position afterward if the floor has a reason to run something sooner.
Select a recipe's row — its name, not the order button — to open the day panel. It shows the scheduled quantity, the recipe's yield, how many batches the day breaks into, and a demand breakdown: the products and sub-recipes each batch draws down. Read it before you sequence a heavy day, since a five-batch recipe rarely belongs wedged between two others.
The order isn't just a note on the list. When a day's recipes become a production run, each line item carries its Order number, and the run lists them in that sequence within each department — so the crew works down the board in the order you set. The number rides into your batch record exports too, which means the floor and the auditor both see the sequence the day was meant to run.