Effective menu management is an important part of the operation of a food-based hospitality business like a restaurant, café or food-led pub that will increase the profitability of the operation through tighter control of profit margins and costs for each menu item.
The kitchen manager can use menu management software to adapt recipes, swap ingredients to change the cost or choose a lower-calorie ingredient alternative, reduce the price per portion and reduce waste costs with closer monitoring of suppliers and inventory.
Using menu management software kitchen managers can gain full visibility of held stock to decide what needs to be used up and adapt recipes, change menu items, select the ‘dish of the day and what items need to be upsold by front-of-house staff.
Menu management software also enables kitchens to comply with the legislation surrounding allergen and calorie labelling, which is critically important to get right.