ABOUT Recipe Manager

Recipe Manager is a powerful application for back-room recipe information management and production control. It is a tool for tracking recipe detail, micro-managing costs of product and ingredients, analyzing nutrition detail, building product menus, and a host of many other features for a variety of food service businesses.

Ideal for Restaurant Chefs

It is the ideal package for Chefs to control their food production. It can be interfaced with a number of leading point-of-sale systems to determine exactly the amount to prepare of each menu item based on daily sales forecasts. It will make sure the correct amount of product is produced to meet demand and minimize waste.

Ideal for Catering Businesses

It is the ideal package for Catering businesses. You can quickly design custom menus with food products specific for the catering job at hand. After a menu is built for a customer, all assigned recipes (and ingredient portions) are scaled exactly for that amount to be prepared. You’ll also know your exact cost and profit for any catering job as you build the menu since Recipe Manager tracks cost down to the fractional ingredient used!

Ideal for Food Product Manufacterers

It is the ideal package for independent producers of food products. Recipe Manager not only tracks all your food product detail, but it will even produce a container product label for you. Design your own container label from Recipe Manager with the actual FDA “Nutrition Facts” right on it!

Recipe Manager was recently adopted by MEPoL, Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana, as key product for Louisiana food producers.
For more information on MEPoL, visit www.mepol.org.

The Recipe Manager User Interface

The user interface is easy to use even for the computer novice. It has a very user friendly “Windows Explorer” looking style that supports touch-screen technology allowing restaurant staff at any level to find recipes or ingredients they need very quickly.

You can run Recipe Manager on any computer including regular desktop or laptop PC’s to small hand-held devices including tablet PC’s, making it simple to manage your data in the corporate office, restaurant back-office, or right from the front line in the palm of your hand.

Data Entry

To get started you simply enter your ingredient information and any important element/compound information given to you from your vendors. Recipe Manager will handle the rest.
When you build a recipe out of your ordered ingredients, you get a world of information at your finger tips including detailed costing by the portion or entire recipe, nutritional analysis, scaleable reporting, etc.

Features

More Info on Costing Features
More Info on Inventory Control Features
More Info on Purchasing / Ordering Features
More Info on Nutritional Analysis Features

Assistance

Besides a detailed manual, a help system, and Vydata toll-free Technical Support, Recipe Manager also comes bundled with a step-by-step demonstration that will walk you through the process when you get stuck.


You can download a copy of this demo right from our downloads page.

Powerful Add-On Tools

The system comes bundled with another tool for the creation of your own menus. You can setup your own menu with a number of recipes all scaled to your liking. For example, easily setup a “low carb menu” by doing a query on all your recipes with low carbs in the nutrition label, then simply add them to the menu. You can scale the entire menu down to a certain number of portions per recipe. At the click of a button, you can print any custom report for the entire menu, specific recipes, or all recipes at once.

Test Drive Recipe Manager

You can download a READ-ONLY trial version of the software with sample data right from our downloads page.