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How to optimize recipe knowledge management with technical sheets?

In the foodservice industry, the recipe technical sheet (or culinary technical sheet) is essential. This document structures the chef's knowledge and is used to calculate dish profitability. It also unlocks many operational benefits: production, stock, purchasing, sales and more.

Steps to make the most of recipe technical sheets

  • Digitize your knowledge
  • Calculate dish profitability
  • Optimize your ratios
  • Plan production
  • Prepare and send purchase orders
  • Sync sales data
  • Compare actual margin against theoretical margin
  • Deduct sold items from stock
  • Run inventory and reconcile flows

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    Structure and standardize your knowledge

    Easily build culinary technical sheets to structure and standardize your recipe knowledge

    Main benefits
    Standardize information to avoid mistakes and share a clear reference repository
    Use the most complete and realistic data model on the market: custom units, sub-recipes, weight variations, losses, purchasing and selling info, comments, production steps with links and photos, and more
    Train colleagues more quickly, especially those who learned with a recipe notebook in culinary school
    Protect against staff turnover by keeping operational knowledge inside a tool that you own
    Standardize knowledge
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    Enrich your knowledge

    Enrich the data captured in technical sheets to push the analysis further

    Main benefits
    Pull nutritional information directly from CIQUAL and save time on a tedious data entry
    Sync your data and build a custom analytics layer with our APIs
    Reprocess data easily across templates, recipes, sub-recipes, production, purchases and sales
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    Compute your profitability and optimize ratios

    Compute your profitability and optimize ratios using technical sheets

    Main benefits
    Account for weight variations to get a reliable cost calculation
    Sort recipes by ascending margin and pinpoint the ones that are losing money
    Drill into the details: poor proportions, costs too high, prices too low, quantities too large
    Optimize ratios
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    Plan production

    Plan production using culinary technical sheets

    Main benefits
    Use recipe sheets to ensure production consistency and make output predictable through the production planner
    Avoid calculation mistakes thanks to recipes and sub-recipes scaled to the right quantities
    Save time with the picking list = the list of ingredients to pull from storage and bring to the prep area
    Plan production

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