Albian Village camp menu app: this week's menu on your phone

What does the camp menu app do?

Everything below is on the menu page today.

• This week's menu for Albian Village, by day and by meal: Breakfast, Lunchroom and Dinner, plus the salad bar.
• Tonight's dinner card at the top. It picks the meal for the time of day on your phone and marks today. Tap a day or a meal, step through the week meal by meal with the arrows, or tap "Next meal" to see what's coming.
• Search for a dish, with quick chips for Bacon, Chicken, Beef, Fish, Pasta, Soup.
• No pork, Meat-free and Vegan only views. They read the dish name only, because ESS does not print allergen or halal labels, so ask the kitchen if it matters to you.
• Like or hide dishes. Tap a dish, then Like or Hide it (one tap; Undo if you slip). Hidden dishes stay hidden on later menus too. They are saved in the browser on that phone. On an iPhone the home-screen app keeps its own separate storage, so likes you made in Safari will not show up in the home-screen app, and the other way round.
• Past weeks' menus, archived and dated.
• Keeps working when camp WiFi drops. It shows the last menu your phone loaded (details below).

How do I add the camp menu to my home screen?

Use the button below if your phone shows it. If not, follow the steps for your phone. Once it is on your home screen, tapping the icon opens the menu page directly, not the site's front page.

iPhone and iPad (Safari, or any browser on iOS)

1. Tap "•••" next to the web address, then tap Share. (Older iPhones: tap the Share button on the bottom bar.)
2. Scroll down and tap "Add to Home Screen".
3. Tap "Add" in the top corner. The menu now sits on your home screen like any other app.

Chrome, Brave and Firefox on an iPhone use the same Share list (iOS 16.4 and later). No "Add to Home Screen" in it? Open this page in Safari and try again.

Android: Chrome

1. Open the menu (⋮) in the top right.
2. Look for "Install app" or "Add to Home screen" and tap it — Chrome is partway through renaming this, so either wording means the same thing.

Android: Samsung Internet

1. If a "+" icon shows in the address bar, tap it, then tap "Home screen".
2. Otherwise, open the menu, then look for "Add page to" → "Home screen".

Android: Brave

1. Open the menu (⋮) in the top right.
2. Look for "Add to Home screen" or "Install app" and tap it.
3. If neither shows up, reload the page first — Brave sometimes takes a moment to recognize a page as installable.

Android: Edge

1. Open the menu (⋯) next to the address bar.
2. Look for "Add to phone", "Install app", or "Apps" → "Install this site as an app" and tap it.

Android: Firefox

1. Open the menu (⋮) in the top right and look for "Install" or "Add to Home screen".
2. If neither is there, touch and hold the address bar and use "Add Page Shortcut" instead — it opens in a browser tab rather than full-screen, but it’s still one tap from your home screen.

On a computer (Chrome, Edge, Brave)

1. Look for an install icon at the right end of the address bar (a small monitor or a "+").
2. If you don’t see it, open the browser menu and look for "Install page as app", "Install this site as an app", or "Apps".

On a computer (Firefox)

1. Bookmark this page (Ctrl/Cmd+D) or pin the tab so it's one click away.

Firefox on a computer has no built-in "install as app" option, so a bookmark or pinned tab is the closest thing.

On any other browser, open its menu and look for “Add to Home screen” or “Install”.

What is a PWA?

PWA stands for progressive web app. In plain words, it is a website you can save to your home screen so it opens like an app, without going through the App Store or Google Play. The camp menu app is one of these. It is still this website underneath, so there is nothing big to download and no update to install by hand.

Does the camp menu app work without internet?

Yes, for the menu your phone has already loaded. This is how it works:

• Your phone saves a copy of the menu page and the past weeks page, and it keeps a copy of other pages as you open them.
• It always tries the internet first, so with signal you get the newest menu.
• If the connection fails, it shows the saved copy instead. Tonight's dinner still works out today's day and meal on the phone, so it does not show yesterday's meal.
• If your phone has never loaded the menu and there is no signal, you get a short offline page, not the menu.

A saved copy is only as new as the last time your phone had signal. If ESS has posted a new week since then, you will not see it until you are back online.

What the camp menu app is not

• It shows the menu ESS (Eurest) publishes for CNRL Albian Village. It is not the menu for Wapasu or any other camp.
• It is not affiliated with ESS, Eurest, Compass Group or CNRL. It is an independent page that reads their published menu into a form that is easier to use on a phone.
• The menu updates when ESS posts a new week, and this site is updated after that, so a new week can show up a little late.
• Menus change without notice. The board or screen in your camp is what counts.
• It does not predict future menus. There is nothing to show for a week ESS has not posted.

Want to see how the menu itself is put together, what repeats and where it comes from? Read the full Albian Village camp menu page.

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