Suppliers and Products Getting Started with...
Suppliers and Products lie at the heart of the KitMan System, set suppliers up once and they are used in Recipes, in raising Purchase Orders and receiving deliveries, in monitoring expenditure and profitability on a daily basis and performing a stock take.
Forecasting Getting Started with...
Many operations do not prepare a forecast of either potential revenues or associated costs. Yet these are critical to the success of any business for how can one manage its activities if it does not have anything to compare it against.
Menu Costing Getting Started with...
The success or failure of any establishment is dependent upon accurate costing of menus and portion controls. In an environment where product cost fluctuate as frequently as food does it is essential that one is aware of all price changes. If one costs all of the menus today it is guaranteed these will not be the same in three months time.
Sales Tracking Getting Started with...
By recording sales information to various service areas one is able to know which are the most profitable areas and the most profitable dishes. This highlights areas where marketing should be focused assisting the operation to grow its business and improve profitability.
Recipe Bank Getting Started with...
It is important that the quality of the meal is consistent, otherwise if a client has a poor meal they will go to the competition. This is easy when the Chef is on duty, but what happens on the Chefs day off or when he is on holiday or sick.
Menu Design Getting Started with...
A specialist Menu Module to consolidate dishes into a complete menu, whether this be A La Carte, Table d’ Hote, a Function or any other event.
Purchasing GGetting Started with...
Clearly the cost of purchasing is an important feature of whether a company makes a profit or a loss. However, the cost of purchasing is only a small element of the whole process of calculating profits and the success of a company.
Monitoring Purchases Getting Started with....
Analyse sales activities and then monitor purchases so that results can be compared against any forecast and comparisons with previous years.
