Customer Segment: Services Organisation
The Challenge
Our customer is a world leader in catering and support services, employing more than 500,000 people in 50 countries. Locally in Australia Compass employs 10,000 people, working in more than 478 locations.
Standard Recipe forms one of the key tools for our customer’s staff allowing them to prepare a consistent product repeatedly. Menu planning is the first control point in the food service system.
As a market leader in their field, the customer changes the menus across various sites few times every year based on availability of local produce, seasonal availability of raw ingredients and may other factors.
A well-planned menu features items that the operation’s kitchen personnel can consistently produce while maintaining the operation’s quality, cost and standards.
There was a pressing need to better manage the standard recipes and provide an easy & secure way for its users to create and plan for menus.
The Solution
Profitability in Hospitality business can be better supported by controlling cost of the ingredients required to produce a delicious recipe.
This cloud based application is developed on Office 365 – SharePoint platform and can be easily used by your Kitchen staff. It uses PowerBI for all reporting and integrates with customer’s line of business applications for ingredients and other datasets.
This Recipe Repertoire application includes following key elements –
- Ingredients Management
- Recipe Management
- Menu and costs Management
Recipe & Menu planning application allows tighter control of individual elements like various ingredients and recipe to the Menu itself allowing a better cost control and projection tool.
It provides the customer staff with the ability to create, store and share the standard recipes across various sites. It will also allow the site resources to make changes to their standard menu based on the factors like availability of raw ingredients and fresh local produce. The application will ease the process of developing Menus based on the standard recipe base and allow for quick ways of distributing, printing and sharing of the various menus.
This application is built on Microsoft’s Office365 platform in SharePoint. This platform is a cloud-based service that helps organisations share and collaborate information.
Business Benefits
- Easy to use interface by non technical staff
- Powerful search to find menu, ingredients and more
- Manage products listing and costs
- Ability to integrate with your product inventory system
- Create, Manage and Share recipes and associated costs
- Supports site based recipes
- Manage weekly and fortnightly menus and associated costs based on your recipe database.
- Auto-calculate recipe and menu costs as ingredient costs changes
- Recipe based on number of portions
