Food + tech, what’s not to like 
I’m not sure this is a table display, so much as an adornment grid. That’s not a counter-argument but a nuance for your feature request. Really what you are asking for is a calendrical adornment grid creator (the scope might vary, e.g. day-of-week cols and day-date row, or months/years, etc.
I say this because it is more of a grid of adornments than a table and perhaps that is the approach. IOW, define the row and column number (i.e derived from scope, e.g. weekdays, day-dates, months, etc.) and whether rows or columns are on top—i.e. the front-to-back ‘z’ axis order.
Viewed in this wider context, an adornment-grid configurator might be a neat tool as I can see it might help those doing course/syllabus panning, as well as more satisfying meal planning. 
Where to you want the date to show? If in the cell created by the grid-of-adornments [sic] then that could currently only be done with a note which is transparent except for the $Name and placed in each ‘cell’. But returning to my wider point above, it might be something a configurator could do and maybe also ‘lock’ so as to essentially be part of the view background.
$DisplayExpression and $DisplayName aren’t intrinsic, but an if($IsAlias==false){… wrapper to a Display Expression might let you add the data to the meal items based on their underlying adornment(s).
Anyway, food for thought—so to speak.