What is the single most important asset to a restaurant owner? Their recipes! When delicious food is served the exact same way every time someone orders it, is your stock and trade it’s critical that it be held to a strict standard and be made correctly without fail! If your restaurant has regular customers, you can be sure they can tell right away if something tastes a bit different or the portions are slightly smaller than before, and they won’t be pleased about it! They want exactly what they ordered last time, and they expect it to be the same every time, consistently!
The problem is that an establishment’s precious recipes all too often go overlooked! They are scrawled on a piece of paper taped to the range hood, or kept in a cluttered kitchen drawer, or worse yet the sole copy is in the mind of the cook, and if the cook leaves the business the recipe leaves, too, and in the worst case scenario so do your customers when you don’t know how to make their favourite dish ‘right’ anymore! Fortunately, modern technology has provided the answer to this problem in the form of software recipe management solutions that are consistent day in and day out! Let’s find out more about the advantages it brings to your restaurant’s kitchen, shall we?
Centralized Database -No more messy binders, mixed up note cards and chef’s secrets, your digital recipe management system creates a centralized database in which all of your brand’s recipes are organized and stored so they are easily accessible to the entire kitchen staff! The database puts an end to all the time wasted searching for recipes in that cluttered drawer and makes absolutely sure everyone has easy access to all of your precious recipes.
Ingredients Information – These days, it’s important to be able to tell customers who suffer from food allergies or other medical conditions that limit what they can safely eat exactly what ingredients are in your restaurant’s recipes, both for their safety and for your legal liability! There is also an increasing awareness from customers about nutrition, so they might be asking questions about your ingredients that you need to be able to provide answers to. Your digital recipe management system can automatically calculate all nutritional information and identify any potential allergens in every one of your recipes, which can save lives and cause you a lot of trouble! This kind of openness and transparency helps to build customer trust and makes their dining experience worry-free!
Makes Training Easy – Now that you have all of your recipes safely logged in one easy to access system, it will be a lot easier to train new cooks, a process that was formerly time consuming and difficult will be a breeze since they can go back and check your kitchen’s methods and ingredients instantly in the database on the fly! Digital recipe systems act as a standardized tool for staff training, your new employees all have access to the same information and can quickly learn to make your restaurant’s signature recipes to your exact specifications.
Now you can relax and smile as your customers tell you “It was just as great tasting as last time!”
