Ordering list

I don't think Django queryset has a mechanism to order by a list of field value.

Option 1:
Order in Python. Keep it mind it will return a list, not a queryset anymore (inspired from this answer) and that you end up using magic strings (what if the user uses Entrées instead of Starters?):

sections = Section.objects.all()
order = ['Starters', 'Salads', 'Desserts']
order = {key: i for i, key in enumerate(order)}
ordered_sections = sorted(sections, key=lambda section: order.get(section.name, 0))

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42682652/django-query-sort-by-value-of-string