Recipe and Inventory Management Solution for Catering Business
Inventory management is seemingly one of the least appealing parts of managing a catering business. Besides, it is likely one of the most essential if you need your business to be financially fit. It’s time to get serious regarding your inventory management. Track it quickly and ensure that every penny you spend is a credit to sales.
Pxier Inventory Management Software holds firm control of the inventory and operates to reduce wastage.Pxier catering software with inventory control provides advanced menu and recipe management for catering businesses. With Pxier Recipe management for catering services, you can run catering operations including recipe, cost of ingredients, dietary, nutrition, and allergen information easily. Our recipe tool connected Pxier Catering software, Takeout and delivery software, and POS system.
One platform to manage recipe and inventory control for Restaurant, Catering, and Counter service restaurants.
Pxier Inventory management for Catering and POS business can notify you when stock reach below threshold quantity, generate purchase orders, and/or list out items that need to be ordered between give dates.
Pxier inventory and recipe management solution can compile all of your catering business recipes into an easy-to-navigate cookbook. Enter menu, details images, ingredients, portion sizes, instructions, dietary information, and more.
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Maintain a precise record of the current available inventory at your catering business outlets.
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Check the variance between the inventory that should be used in a day and the leftover inventory that is available at the end.
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View complete reports regarding inventory consumption and make data-driven decisions through the Pxier Inventory management system for catering business.
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Automatically reduce inventory stock quantity in real-time when ticket closed or catering event completed.
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Optimized suggestions for purchase orders. Future and past usage and PAR levels.
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Easy ordering of items is possible through our detailed but easy-to-use purchase ordering module.
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Quickly find out waste, theft, loss, and errors with checks with our detailed reporting system.
In-depth Menu configuration
Menu Modifiers
Allergen information
Dietary
Nutrition
Menu Preparation and Procedure
Inventory/Stock Adjustment
Item/Inventory Management
Recipe Management and Wastage
Vendor Management
Prep Sheets
Purchase Order Management
In-depth Menu configuration
Pxier catering software and restaurant POS system allow you to break down the following Menu categories, catering menu, and menu details. Each menu can have additional menu descriptions.
The menu can be categorized for catering, dine-in, takeout, delivery, optional menu entries. Assign accounting groups for individual menu categories to track item revenue by accounting systems
Save Time with an easy-to-do Menu
Add, copy, and organize menu items with few clicks, and automatically synchronize these modifications to your POS system. Plan menus to include specials for certain times of the day or to adjust with the seasons.
Enhance the Customer Experience with Personalization Features
Detailed menu descriptions help servers answer customers’ questions and give simple suggestions. Servers can quickly accept special requests with custom modifiers.
Simplified Processes with POS Integrations
Integration with kitchen hardware permits you to route orders to precise BOH stations by menu category or item. And Pxier inventory management feature informs you when it’s time to reorder inventory.
Menu Modifiers
You can build and configure advanced optional menu items and can be attached to one or more menus. These configurations simplify the ordering menu by staff and online customers. In addition, the system allows custom menu buttons, selection choices, optional items, flavors, extra items, credit on items, and several other options.
Let your customers order catering menu packages, the best option for corporate menu orders. Options like the weekly menu, menu availability for the date range, a menu for the day, menus available for takeout, delivery, dine-in or catering, and more are configured with the help of menu modifiers.
Pre-defined and customizable menu units
To keep units consistent and to make sure that the people in your business use the same variations of units, the Pxier catering software with inventory control module allows you to set up a table of approved units of measure. You can lock this table so no one can modify it.
In Pxier, you can define your menu units or use pre-defined setup menu units. Each menu unit can be connected to an inventory unit or metric unit for accurate inventory calculations. Unified systems of measurement in a recipe will provide accuracy that could affect the taste, consistency, and appearance. Pxier configuration ensures a consistent and optimized result of recipe management with one standard system of measurement.
Allergen information
Allergens are put on the ingredient level. All recipes and menus that you produce can have up-to-date allergen information. Changes can be incorporated easily on demand.
Pxier food labels take some assumptions out of label reading, helping your customers quickly identify foods that could cause an allergic reaction. Our menu management lets you assign allergen and other food labels with image icons that make it simple for the end-users to quickly filter out items they are allergic to. These icons will be displayed on the individual menu in the ordering system. Also, our online ordering system allows customers to filter on and exclude food items that could cause an allergic reaction or they would like to avoid.
Allergen labels
Our food allergen management system has built-in tools to make conveying food allergens easy. Share allergen information through allergen labels.
Comprehensive information integration
Allergen checks and nutritional reports are integrated at all levels: ingredient, recipe, and menu.
Build Your Recipe Library
Create entire cost and portioned recipes with step-by-step methodologies and dietary info. Allergen and Nutrition labels are created automatically.
Dietary
The benefit of the dietary management feature of the Pxier Inventory management system for catering business is that it can provide precise nutrition facts and labeling using our extensive database and food science technology. These resources allow you to provide information based on the nutrition facts of each ingredient and the percentage used in your recipe. If your product is fried, coated, or salted, you’ll more than likely need to get your nutritional information due to the product’s complexity. This information can be printed on catering menu listings for the clients or web ordering system.
Nutrition
Typically a meal consists of several different foods, some of which may be recipes that contain multiple ingredients. In the Pxier Inventory management system for catering business, calorie and nutrient values for meals can be calculated by entering the values for the individual ingredients.
Our recipe nutrition and calorie calculator combines ingredient data with USDA recommendations to provide you with accurate and in-depth nutritional information. You can override this information when required to optimize the information provided.
Menu Preparation and Procedure
The idea of inventory management for the catering business is bound directly to framing your menu. Tracking inventory is one of the best methods to be productive and cost-effective. It’s an eventually significant responsibility that guarantees and secures supply. In the catering business, customer satisfaction is crucial, and every customer’s orders are met to the best of your skills.
Menu Delight
Effectively preparing a menu is the beginning of many advantages of proper inventory management that can be achieved with Pxier inventory management. Pxier catering software with the inventory control module provides the details of what is in the kitchen and the tools required to deliver them to hungry customers. By tracking the ingredients utilized and the equipment needed to stock an item on the menu, you can instantly define how many you can serve.
Reduce Wastage
Pxier catering software with the inventory control module can check how ingredients are being used over some time. Our inventory management system provides cost-effectiveness through purchasing the necessary ingredients and it will reduce wastage.
Evaluating Costs
Pxier inventory management system gives the record and reports providing a clear idea of how much you’ve spent and how much you require to earn to return profits. From these records, budgets can be fixed, and the usage frequency of items can be determined.
Inventory/Stock Adjustment
Effective inventory control is one of the most relevant ways your business can ensure the financial data you rely on for reporting, forecasting, and auditing plans is perfect, accurate, and up-to-date. And one of the most crucial parts of any thriving inventory system is the use of stock adjustments. The process is not complex, but ensuring it has been done properly can save you from unwanted disappointment and expensive delays in today’s data-driven business environment.
Proper Inventory is Crucial to Your Profit
Like a ship navigating in a heavy blow, inventory sometimes needs tiny adjustments to stay on course. Knowing and implementing inventory adjustments precisely assures your business has the information it requires for reliable financial statements, more loyal decision making, and process improvements-today, and in the future.
Item/Inventory Management
Here comes the perfect time to provide yourself with significant inventory management software.
Do Inventory Right with Pxier
It’s quick and easy to add and manage your products with Pxier. Add products directly via Pxier’s interface or upload them with just a couple of clicks. Filter inventory items by category or status. Ensure stock lists are maintained correctly and kept up to date by marking Inventory items inactive when no longer in use.
The Right Products at the Right Time
Creating inventory groups lets you categorize inventory items. Our comprehensive reporting lets you observe what’s selling and what’s not, so you can calculate trends, make savvy buying decisions and keep your stores stocked with products that sell.
Recipe Management and Wastage
It’s no secret that the catering industry works on especially thin margins. Every small percentage counts.Updating recipes, sadly, is time-consuming. Ingredient costs, on the other hand, change periodically. So without frequent updates, you have no concept of profitability at all. With Pxier recipe management you can swipe the food costing of your base.When ingredients vary, all recipes and menus with that ingredient are updated directly. Likewise works for all menu and recipe estimates, allergen labels, and Nutri-scores.
Pxier catering software with inventory control comes up with a provision showing the waste percent of a particular inventory while chosen. Upon choosing ingredients for a recipe, this prerequisite help to select it in the proper quantity.
Food waste percentage of all ingredients and recipes must be entered to come up with accurate costing. When looking at waste, you must always consider the losses and waste involved in preparation and cooking. You also need to account for the dollar value losses and waste to get the actual cost of the recipe. These extra costs should always be included in the price of the menu.
The waste percentage is important because it tells you several things. Like, how many usable items you will have when prepared and how many menu ingredients items need to be ordered. With the Pxier catering recipe management system, you can keep track of the waste percentages. The system will automatically consider them in the menu preparation and inventory management.
Vendor Management
Catering business typically handle many vendors to keep quality and agreement. Our Vendor Management allows catering business to decrease costs, control expenses, prompt service perfection, and decrease risks. Our Inventory Control Module includes the email addresses of vendors to send the purchase orders directly to them. The vendor management feature of the pxier inventory module helps in assigning each item to a vendor, viewing the entire list of vendors, and updating and deleting the vendors as per the requirement.
If you are attempting to handle your vendors manually, you’ll most likely: lack visibility into production and deliverables, waste time, and increase labor and administrative costs. With Pxier Inventory management software, your business can get relevant insights that improve efficiency, mitigate risk, and maximize vendor performance.
Prep Sheets
Desire to discard the waste from over prepping or over-ordering? Want to enhance kitchen efficiency and strengthen control of your catering business cost of goods sold? Need to improve responsibility and insight into your kitchen management? Here is the best solution, Prep sheets which are the backbone of a thriving kitchen.
A duly prepped station is the basis upon which a successful service period is put up. Limited prep is done, and you go down in fires immediately at the peak of the rush. Skip to prep one item, and promptly that is the most famous dish of the time! Having comprehensive prep sheets can make your kitchen much more organized and help your staff be more usually prepped and ready for service. Having par-levels on the prep sheets helps to prepare in the correct amount that helps to reduce the wastage of items.
Catering for large events requires preparing in advance. Our prep sheet allows you to view the stock requirements for a specific period. Depending on the menu items required for the event, the report will display each ingredient required and the quantity according to the catering event.
Eliminate the burden of over-prepping
The prep sheet of the Pxier inventory module shows the inventories which are in stock. It will help in getting an estimate of the inventory requirement for an upcoming event. By determining how much of an ingredient you utilize on average, these new provisions can suggest how much you should order in the future. Improve kitchen efficiency and profit margins by reducing waste made by over-prepping.
Purchase Order Management
Smart purchasing, so you always hold what you want. Stop losing money away when you are over or under the order. The purchase order management feature of the Pxier inventory control module simplifies PO creation, management, and tracking to support you earn huge bucks.
PAR Stock Ordering
Par is the minimum quantity of inventory that you need for each item. If your inventory is below par, you identify it’s time to purchase more.So place par-levels for inventory items and re-stock up to par. The essential quantities are transferred automatically to the PO of the vendor. It is perfect for items that you order regularly.
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