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How to optimize the business knowledge thanks to recipe database?
In the catering industry, the recipe database is essential. This document makes it possible to structure the knowledge available to the chef and to calculate the profitability of the dishes. It also provides numerous operational benefits: production, stocks, purchases, sales, etc.
Steps leading to leveraging recipe database efficiently
- Digitize your business knowledge
- Calculate dishes profitability
- Optimize ratios
- Plan the production
- Prepare and send orders
- Synchronise sales
- Analyze the difference between actual and theoretical margin
- Destock sold products
- Make the inventory and reconcile flows
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Structure and standardize your knowledge
Compose your recipe database easily to structure and standardize your knowledge
Standardize information to avoid errors and share a clear repository
Benefit from the most complete and realistic model on the market: personalized units, sub-recipes, variations in weight, losses, purchase and sale information, comments, production steps with links and images, etc.
Train your colleagues faster with a recipe book
Protect yourself from turnover by keeping your business knowledge in a tool that belongs to you
Enrich recipe information and leverage it elsewhere
Enrich the information contained in your database to go even further
Obtain nutritional information directly from CIQUAL public source and save on time-consuming data entry
Synchronize your data and create your own analytics from our APIs
Easily reprocess your data from models, recipes, sub-recipes, production, purchases and sales
Calculate your profitability and optimize your ratios
Calculate your profitability and optimize your ratios using the recipe database.
Take into account the weight variations to have a reliable calculation
Sort your revenues by increasing margin and identify the ones that make you lose money
Get into the details: wrong proportions, costs too high, prices too low, quantities too large
Organize your production
Organize your production thanks to the recipe database.
Use the recipe database to guarantee the consistency of your production and make it predictable through the production schedule
Avoid calculation errors thanks to factored recipes and sub-recipes in the right quantities
Save time with the commissary voucher = the list of ingredients to take out of the reserve and take to the lab
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