Why Simply FoodCalc?
Simply FoodCalc is easy to use; hence its name. It has been designed and developed with you in mind; the owner of your restaurant or hotel, the Executive Chef, the Food Cost Controller or any other person whose responsibility it is to maximize profits from your food operation.
Time is of the essence for everybody, and it is the only resource that money can’t buy. You are therefore quite rightly focusing the greater part of your time on your food operation and its customers, ensuring they get good value for their money whilst hoping that you will be left with a decent return on your investment. That alone probably leaves you with very little time to do your back office work which includes lots of paperwork and other very important tasks.
For example, when was the last time you revised your ingredient and recipe prices? Last week? Last Month? Last Year? When was the last time that you checked on competition prices? What guarantee do you have that at the moment you are operating at or below your default food cost %? Are you making money, or are you losing money? This is where Simply FoodCalc can help. Don’t let uncontrolled food costs eat into your profits. Let Simply FoodCalc do all the math for you. With Simply FoodCalc you need worry no more.
version of Simply FoodCalc and see for yourself how easy it is to be in full control of your food costs.
Free 30 day trial
Ideal for use by
Hotels • Restaurants • Cafes & Deli's • Bars and Pubs • Fast Food Outlets
Outside Catering • Contract Catering • In - Flight Catering • Health & Welfare Catering
Office & Factory Canteens • Educational • Event Organizers • Outdoor Caterers
Hospitals • Schools • Armed Forces • Food Academy Students
Features
Single Window Workbench - Program Map Workflow Process
Flexibility for use in any country of the world, any currency, any tax system (eg. VAT, GST, etc.)
Metric or Imperial Units of Measure and unlimited creation of Units of Measure
Automatic Conversion of Imperial/Metric or Metric/Imperial Units of Measure
Add pictures of your Ingredients and/or Recipes
Extremely powerful Query Builder for Ingredients, Recipes and Menus
Build multiple conditions for your queries to give you all the information you require in an
instant, on screen with the option to save queries for future use
Ingredient Prices’, Recipe Prices’ and Competition Prices’ Last Review Dates with tool to monitor Last Review Dates
Overall and Actual Default Food Cost % with comparative analysis
Instantaneous visual indicators of Actual Food Cost % of Recipes and Menus
Multiple Menus with individual Menus Default Food Cost %
Calculates Prices with and without any Purchase and Sales Tax
Compare my Recipe Prices to the current Market Prices
Automatic updating of Recipe and Menu prices upon change in price of an Ingredient
Audit of Ingredient Price Changes, Recipe Price Changes and Menu Price Changes
Numerous Reports by Ingredients, Suppliers, Recipes and Menus
Export Reports to Excel, Word, CSV, HTML, XML formats
Export all Ingredients’ and Recipes’ Details to Excel
Unlimited descriptive Food Terms
View all Recipes using a particular Ingredient
Profit Calculator and Conversion Calculator
Overview
Single Window Workbench
A very powerful and useful window that groups the main processes and functions of the application in one window – a single window workbench with easy access to all the main functions at the touch of a button. Additionally, the more important statistics in as far as Ingredients, Recipes and Menus are concerned, are also available for quick reference purposes or investigation, complete with drill down
Program Map Workflow Process
A second tab in this window explains the program workflow in detail making it easier for the user to understand the process flow, and to get started quickly. Click on any of the step-by-step buttons to get an explanation of the function of each process.
Ingredient Categories and Sub-Categories
The application comes by default with 400 pre-defined Ingredients, all of which are classified into broad Ingredient Categories and Ingredient Sub-Categories for better analysis of information.
Update Ingredients
The Ingredients’ update window is where the user can create and maintain the Ingredients’ table. Create an unlimited number of Ingredients over and above the default 400 Ingredients in the licensed version of the application. Filter your Ingredients’ list into those you frequently use in your Recipes, and those you do not use, or those Ingredients whose prices you do not need to monitor because of their negligible cost.
Photo of Ingredient
You can attach a photo to every Ingredient in the application. All 400 default Ingredients come with a pre-saved photo for each Ingredient.
Recipes and Sub-Recipes
Create an unlimited number of Recipes and Sub-Recipes in the licensed version of the application. Use the powerful query tool to filter your searches in any way possible. Visual indicators immediately highlight those Recipes that are above or below Default Food Cost %.
Recipes and Sub-Recipes
When creating a Recipe or a Sub-Recipe, you have the functionality to attach other health considerations. Flag recipes as Spicy, Very Spicy, Contains Allergens, Vegetarian, and Gluten Free. Instant visual indicator to show if a Recipe is above or below food cost. Create as many Sub-Recipes as necessary.
Recipes and Sub-Recipes
Update Recipe Cost Price, and Selling Prices, excluding and including tax. Let the system calculate Actual Food Cost% and compare it to your food operation’s Default Food Cost%, with a visual indicator to highlight if your Recipe is above or below Default Food Cost %. Compare your Selling Price to that offered by your competition.
Recipes and Sub-Recipes
Recipe Preparation and Cooking Times and Recipe Instructions. Copy Recipes from any document or website and the application will auto-generate the same instructions for you to save you precious re-keying in time.
Recipes and Sub-Recipes
Select the Ingredients and/or Sub-Recipes used in a Recipe. Choose from the 400 default ingredients in the application, or from any other Ingredients or Sub-Recipes you create in the licensed version of the application. The system calculates Recipe Cost from the Ingredients/Sub-Recipes selected and also calculates the Portion Cost after entering the Yield per Recipe.
Recipes and Sub-Recipes
Audit of Recipe Price Movements. Every time you make a change to any Ingredient or Sub-Recipe Cost Price, or to the Recipes recommended Selling Price, or if the tax rate changes, the application records such change and keeps a traceable audit of the change.
Graphs
You can extract graphs of your Ingredients’, Recipes’ or Menu Items’ price movements over time to help you visualize and monitor the trend in your cost prices, selling prices and profitability.
Menus
Create as many menus as necessary, subject to licensing. You can have a Summer menu, a Winter menu, a Chinese Menu, an Indian Menu, etc. Many hotels have a number of restaurants, each with their own different Menus, each with their own Default Food Cost %.
Menus
Instant visual indicators if Menu Items are above or below Default Food Cost %, or above or below Menu Default Food Cost %.
Units of Measure
The application comes with pre-defined Units of Measure, but you can create as many others as necessary. The application comes with pre-defined Metric Units of Measure as well as Imperial Units of Measure. You can opt for either measuring system at time of installing the application first time.
Reports
The application comes with over 40 pre-defined reports, nearly all of which may be exported to Excel, Word, HTML, etc. This is the Report of Ingredients used in a Recipe.
Reports
Report of Audit of Recipe Price Movements.
Reports
Report of Recipes Below Default Food Cost %
Videos
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Call us on 356-9942 0705 or fill in the Enquiries form below for a 'no-obligation to purchase' quotation of Simply FoodCalc.
If you’re not too keen to get started using Simply FoodCalc purely because you might think it might be too time consuming to set up Ingredient Prices, Recipes and Menus, then let us do this task for you. Keep in mind that the system comes by default with 400 pre-defined Ingredients, so it is just a matter of entering the current Purchase Price of each Ingredient to start building your Recipes. It will take us less time to set it all up for you because of our expertise and training in the use of our own product.
We can create all your initial data in Simply FoodCalc from any source of data you give us, whether it is in Word, Excel, or even if it is on plain paper. Send us an email at info@andromidasoftware.com giving us an indication of number of Recipes and Menus you wish to update and we will gladly give you a ‘no-obligation’ quote for our service. We will then send you by email the final tables of information with full instructions on how to continue from there onwards.