# Daily cafeteria menu

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/daily-cafeteria-menu/3050
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [December 21, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/daily-cafeteria-menu/3050 "2019-12-21T04:54:50Z")
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### Author: ![MattP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4da419/32.png) [@MattP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattP)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/daily-cafeteria-menu/3050/1 "2019-12-21T04:54:50Z")

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I’m trying to add a section to my app that will list what is available for breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day in our school cafeteria. I created a tab in my Google Sheet with columns for date, meal (breakfast, lunch, or dinner), item, and description. I’d like to output the data in the app in the following format:

**Day (or date)**  
**Breakfast**  
–Item 1  
----Description  
–Item 2  
----Description  
–Item 3  
----Description

**Lunch**  
–Item 1  
----Description  
–Item 2  
----Description  
–Item 3  
----Description

**Dinner**  
–Item 1  
----Description  
–Item 2  
----Description  
–Item 3  
----Description

The calendar layout gets me the closest to what I’m trying to create but it comes out a bit cluttered looking because it shows the date and time before each meal item. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I could best setup that layout?

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### Author: ![George\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/george_b/32/534_2.png) [@George\_B](https://community.glideapps.com/u/George_B)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/daily-cafeteria-menu/3050/2 "2019-12-21T05:14:06Z")

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Building Rich Text in a cell comes to mind. You would concatenate text, using simple &'s, from other columns, adding spaces and/or CHAR(10) for linefeeds. It would sort of depend on how the meal information is typed in and if it comes from some kind of canned list of items or menus that repeat.

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/daily-cafeteria-menu/3050/3 "2019-12-22T14:46:54Z")

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Maybe markdown in a table format would get you want you want. Here’s a post from a different thread that provides a couple of links to other examples. I use tables a bit in my app to get the results I want.

> [@Layout Labels, prices & Boolean values](https://community.glideapps.com/t/layout-labels-prices-boolean-values/3053/4):
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> I would look into building a markdown table in a single column by concatenating values in the sheet, or by building a template column. There you can create your own labels as part of the markdown and set any size you want. This will allow you to display multiple values horizontally in a table format. Here are a couple of threads that explain the process. For a checkbox, I would consider using emojis to combine with your text. I like using [https://emojipedia.org/](https://emojipedia.org/) A couple examples are …

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### Author: ![MattP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4da419/32.png) [@MattP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattP)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/daily-cafeteria-menu/3050/4 "2019-12-29T21:47:48Z")

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Thanks guys! I’ll give these a try.