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MenuAnalyst is integrated into the Food Saver Pro application but can be purchased separately for those only interested in the recipe and menu costing functions, profit reports and its handy tools such as automated menu design functions.
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Menu and Recipe Costing
The importance of costing and subsequent pricing of meals on a menu is quite often overlooked by a busy chef. Many food outlets don’t place an emphasis on calculating the correct gross profit obtained for each meal and quite often rely on a ‘that-sounds-about-right’ pricing method.
By using the MenuAnalyst, you will have a complete understand of every meal that is in your repertoire and how to price it in order to achieve desired profit margins. Even if it is not on one of your current menus or functions, you will still be able to monitor the changing costs and decide if it is worth re-introducing.
Profit Alerts
As the prices change for the food ingredients, MenuAnalyst tracks the changing profit margins on all recipes within your current menu and notifies you when any of your profit margins drop below your pre-set levels.
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Working together with FoodSaver, MenuAnalyst not only tracks the overall Gross Profit margin (GP%) of each meal, it also tracks cost increases that might occur for ingredients in any meal in the FoodSaver system.
The user can then act on this information accordingly. Sometimes the sell price needs to be increased to maintain the required GP%. Maybe the serve size can be reduced without impacting on the customer experience.
FoodSaver also enables the user to request a deal from any or all suppliers for an ingredient that has caused the reduction in GP%.
Recipe Cards
At any time, MenuAnalyst enables you to print recipe cards to use when working out what ingredients are within a meal. These recipe cards are great to use for initially designing a meals recipe and then entering the data into MenuAnalyst. They can be stored in the kitchen as a handy reference when it comes time to actually prepare any meal.
Purchasing Options
MenuAnalyst has two options for purchasing – Food Saver Pro bundle or Stand-alone. The core functions are essentially the same in each option with the differences being the level of integration with Saver Systems’ databases.
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The two options are:
FoodSaver Pro bundled with MenuAnalyst – No need for you to update ingredient prices as all ingredient prices are automatically updated from your most recent FoodSaver supplier tenders.
Stand-alone MenuAnalyst – Simply purchase MenuAnalyst with no ongoing fees. Manual entering and updating of your ingredient prices is required in the Stand-alone version of MenuAnalyst.