Products
Food Cost Management
Recipe
Birch Street's Recipe module simplifies one of the most mission critical functions of a hotel chain. Previously a manually-intensive and inefficient process, Recipe management fully integrated with a comprehensive procurement package is now a reality. Birch Street empowers a hotel chain to determine profitability of menu items and restaurants and ensure uniform quality of menu items across a global chain of properties. The Recipe module offers a series of features that automate processes and bolster efficiency including recalculation of recipes for large banquets, substitution of seasonal products using 'What if?' scenarios and automatic system updates to catalog item prices. Birch Street's comprehensive report gallery helps the back office to determine profitability of menu items by property and calculates Cost of Goods Sold (COGS).
The recipe module contains the following additional features:
- Updating non-catalog item prices automatically through the Receiving module
- Updating non-catalog item prices using an exported template
- Attach pictures at the Recipe and ingredient level
- Convert recipes from US standard to metric
- Advanced search functionality
- Activate and Deactivate recipes
- Step and preparation instructions
- Notes and attachments
- Recipe sharing through publishing the recipe to a library
- Recipe printable form with prep instructions and pictures
- Copying and editing of recipes
- Maintain nutritional and dietary information
Liquor Monitoring
Serving alcoholic beverages can be a lucrative part of the food and beverage segment among hospitality and food service businesses. However, over pours and drink giveaways can causes these businesses to suffer substantial profit losses of up to 20 to 40 percent. Birch Street's Liquor Monitor takes the inaccuracies and guesswork out of monitoring and tracking liquor pours and sales. A free-pour wireless system, Liquor Monitor helps bars, nightclubs, hotels and restaurants to manage their liquor pours and improve their profits.
Liquor Monitor module contains the following features:
- Tracks what drink was poured with what liquor brand
- Tracks which bartender rang up the drink and at what time
- Provides guidelines on how much liquor should have been poured compared to how much was actually poured
- Provides sales and profits analysis reports, including inventory control in real time
- Provides drink database detailing ingredients and glass size of each drink
- Identifies over pours, under pours and drink giveaways
