Abstract:

Defined as the fulfillment of nutritional requirements of people working at different places such as schools, hospitals etc., public food service’s one of the most important stage is menu planning. Menu planning is such a complex process that one should take not only many factors into consideration like cost, energy/nutrition units, taste, diversity etc., but also some aims which should be practiced simultaneously. One of the programs which can be used in programming for such a process is goal programming, a technic for multi-purpose decisions. In the goal programming as a data based technic, fuzzy goal programming models have also been advanced for the situations in which data are not certain. In this study, an example lunch meal menu planning is prepared for the workers between 19 and 30 years old. The menu is planned as non-optional. During the process of planning, fuzzy goal programming method was used in consequence of fuzziness in data.

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