Abstract
Adequate and balanced nutrition is one of the most important issues which
affect the capacity of employees in the branches of business where collective
workforce is needed. Assuming that workers have at least one meal in the
workplace, nutrition facts are very important for both workers and employers.
The nutrition services in the workplace are examined as “bulk nutrition
systems”. Those systems consider the whole process from providing to
consuming foods that a worker needs in accordance with his or her age,
sexuality and the level of difficulty the task performed. Menu management and
menu inspection are at the core of this process. In the narrow sense, menu can
be defined as the food list. In a broader sense, it includes the complex process of
preparing the list of food to be given to the worker having regard to the needs of
his or her in a bulk nutrition system. Therefore, menus are not determined
randomly, a lot of factors are taken into account instead. While some of these
factors should be met primarily and necessarily, some others help workers
having adequate and satisfactory nutrition.
Besides all, cost of the meal is again important for workers and employers
too. Menu planning is a time consuming and costly activity since all of those
factors are taken into consideration. Consequently, it will be very helpful to use
mathematical models for shortening the process and reducing the cost. Planning
has multi purposes. Among a lot of mathematical models, when there are many
purposes, goal programming technique allows to handle them simultaneously
and in order of their priority. Unwanted deviations from this set of target
values are minimized in this technique.
In this study, lunch menus for 15 days have been composed for the workers
in a moderate activity required business, in the age group between 19 and 30 by
using Goal Programming Technique. 179 kind of food from Turkish cuisine
were used for this aim. First, frame menu was taken into consideration. Then,
food list was formulated in accordance with the frame menu related to color,
texture, consistency and the flavor of foods. 179 kind of food were placed under
3 main groups regarding to the frame menu which is used at programming.
These are;
First group meals: Big pieces meat dishes, small pieces meat dishes,
vegetable dishes with meat, grain dishes with meat and dishes with eggs.
Second group meals: Soups, rice, pastas, pasties, vegetable dishes without
meat.
Third group meals: fruits, salads and desserts.
A good menu should include one meal from each group. Thus a target
constraint was added to the model for each meal group. In addition to that,
another target constrain was built to provide all three dishes to be compatible
with their color, texture, consistency and the flavor. There are 34 structural
constraints in the model in relation to these factors. Besides, some new
constraints were also added to the model in order not to give similar or same
foods in the same meal for each day of the week.
10 more target constraints are added to the model in addition to structure
constraints. While first of them was displaying the cost of menus, others were
indicating the amount of nutrition and energy a worker needs to take for a meal.
So, these constraints included the amount of energy, protein, calcium, iron,
vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and vitamin C.
Established model was repeatedly solved every day by using Lingo 8.0
program with integer goal programming model and 15-day menus were
composed. Menus derived from solution of the mathematical model met the
needs of all energy and nutrition components necessary for a worker.
Furthermore, these menu lists complied with all necessary elements like color,
flavor, consistency and compatibility. Concerning the cost terms, it is seen that
menu lists mostly achieve the cost target.
Performing of menu planning with a mathematical structure helps to save
time and it prevents some mistakes resulting from manual programming.
Moreover, it might be enabled to add a new dish to the menu and to change the
characteristics of the mass just by changing the related parameters. For such
organizations where bulk nutrition services given, menu planning with
mathematical models make it possible to design menus less costly.
Abstract
Çalışanın iş kapasitesini etkileyen en önemli konulardan bir tanesi de çalışanın yeterli ve dengeli beslenmesidir. İş yerindeki beslenme hizmetleri ise “toplu beslenme sistemleri” adı altında incelenmektedir. Bu sistemde, çalışanın, yaşına, cinsiyetine ve çalıştığı iş faaliyetinin zorluk derecesine göre ihtiyaç duyacağı enerji ve besin öğelerini içerecek tüm yiyeceklerin, temininden tüketimine kadar olan süreç ele alınmaktadır. Sürecin ana merkezini ise menü planlaması oluşturmaktadır. Menü planlaması, çalışanın ihtiyaç duyacağı besin ve enerji öğeleri göz önünde tutularak hangi yiyecek ve içeceklerin verilmesine ilişkin yemek listelerinin hazırlanmasına yönelik karmaşık bir süreçtir. Sürecin planlanmasında matematiksel modellerden yararlanmak hem bu süreci kısaltacak hem de maliyeti azaltacaktır. Menü planlamasında tüm planlamayı etkileyen unsurların eş-zamanlı ele alınması gerektiğinden bir ok amaçlılık söz konusudur. Matematiksel modeller arasında hedef programlama çok amaçlı bir yapıda bu amaçların eş-zamanlı ve amaçların öncelik sırasına göre ele alınıp çözülmesine olanak sağlayan bir yöntemidir.Bu çalışmada orta aktivite gerektiren iş faaliyetinde çalışan 19 - 30 yaş aralığındaki çalışanlar için 15 günlük i menü listeleri tam sayılı hedef programlama yöntemi kullanılarak oluşturulmuştur. Bunun için 179 çeşit yemekten yararlanılmıştır. Menü kurallarına ilişkin 34 tane yapısal kısıtlayıcı, 10 tane de hedef kısıtlayıcısı oluşturulmuştur. Bunlardan ilk hedef kısıtlayıcısı menünün maliyetini gösterirken diğerleri çalışanın bir öğünde alması gereken enerji ve besin öğelerini göstermektedir.
Details
| Other ID | JA52GG97GT |
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| Journal Section | Articles |
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| Publication Date | June 1, 2009 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2009 Volume: 11 Issue: 1 |