Project Overview

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Project Overview

• Enterprise Foodservice Management Software
• EatecNet Recipes
• Applebees Restaurants
• Dianna Stevens

Project Goals
Applications
Project Description
Demonstration Packages
Features Benefits
Technology
Competitive Analysis
Key Learning Points
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Project Goals

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• My three goals
• To learn more about back of the house software
  and its functions
• To see how chefs use software for recipe
  management
• To know how to analyze different types of
  software

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EatecNet Description

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• Description does purchasing, inventory, recipe,
  forecasting, production, sales analysis
  functions
• This modular software structure enables you to
  construct the exact set of features you need to
  run food and beverage operators of every variety
  all with one system
• Audience restaurant chains, hotels, stadiums and
  arenas, theme parks, cruise lines and airports

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Product Features

• Inventory database
• Inventory management
• Purchasing
• Receiving
• Requisitions and transfers
• In-house production
• General ledger
• Retail merchandise

• Sales tracking analysis.
• Sales forecasting.
• Reports.
• Catering management.
• Function book.
• Commissary mgmt./Mfg.
• Airline catering.
• Concessions mgmt.

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Recipe Software Capabilities

• Enjoy Flexibility in Recipe Creation
• Track Nutritional Data
• Set Production Standards

• Control Food Quality
• Guard Profitability Margins
• Multiple-Site Environments

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Features Benefits Recipes

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• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Key features
• Set production standards
• Tracks food cost fluctuations to inform you if
  recipes are exceeding acceptable percentages
• Recipe analysis will be calculated automatically
  from its components

• Their benefits
• Eliminate over-production by standardizing
  recipes and portioning
• Guard profitability margins
• Track nutritional data

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Competitive Analysis

• Instructions
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• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

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Applications for other Audiences

• Instructions
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• Click Create from File
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• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Airlines develops class-specific menus, creation
  of flight orders, production management, and
  invoicing
• http//www.eatec.com/descrip2.htm
• Concessions Management tracks movement of
  inventory from where it is received, to the
  stands where prepared food is sold
• http//www.eatec.com/descrip2.htm

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Demonstration Packages

• Instructions
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• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Yes,you can use the demonstration package for all
  of the core features
• I learned
• The product has illustrations, can be used for
  training, it has drill down capacities
• The recipe demo is at http//www.eatec.Com/edx/cf
  /dbase-recipes1.htm

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Technology

• Instructions
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• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Two future enhancements that may improve EatecNet
  are
• make it more user friendly
• add menu creation feature

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Resources

• http//www.eatec.com/
• Chapter 8 Food and Beverage Management
  Applications
• http//www.cheftech.com/
• http//www.menupro.com/
• Best Practices Article

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Key Learning Points

• Instructions
• Delete sample document icon and replace with
  working document icons as follows
• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• I met my 3 goals by learning
• More about back of the house software and its
  functions
• How chefs use software for recipe management
• How to analyze different types of software
  through their different features