Why You Need A Foodservice Management System

Save Time

A foodservice management package reduces the time required to manage the dietary department of a health-care facility. It handles clerical chores and eliminates repetitive tasks.

It performs quickly and automatically many labor-intensive and repetitive tasks that would otherwise consume hours of your time. It eliminates the time-consuming tasks of creating lists and reports that are quickly outdated.

"Because of this system we have cut our consultant [dietitian']s hours in half with saves the facilities money on those fees."

-- Nebraska DM2K Customer

Since it contains all your food and clinical data in the computer in a single program, you can get immediate access to any information you need. Further, duplicate information is avoided since all the data you need concerning your food and your residents is in one place and is always current.

Customize Menus

You can customize your menus for special events, changing census and availability of ingredients. You can also customize your printed material such as recipes, menus and instructions without "cut and paste" or penciled changes, thus promoting the professional atmosphere you want for your facility.

Minimize Errors

By developing very specific and complete production instructions, a dietary system can help your kitchen staff to complete their work with fewer errors and possibly less skilled personnel. The result will be better conformance to dietary requirements while saving money.

The inclusion of HACCP information helps you avoid unsafe food conditions and conform to regulations.

Save Money

Many facilities can realize cost savings within a single year which offset the cost of both the computing equipment and the dietary program. For example, by accurately scaling recipes to the amount needed and by identifying the quantities of food needed, a management system can reduce food costs.

The system's detailed preparation and serving instructions allow you to use less skilled personnel which will save payroll costs.

Time spent manually changing lists and tray cards or calculating nutrient content is virtually eliminated with the management system doing these in mere seconds.

Of course, there IS an alternative...