EGS CALCMENU Web 2009: Features

	EGS CALCMENU Web 2009
Centralizing Recipe Management Anytime, Anywhere

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Merchandise Creation	Create, modify, delete, and mark merchandise in your merchandise list quickly and accurately.
Recipe Creation and Standardization	Create, modify, and delete recipes.
Recipe Costing	Calculate selling price and profit margin of all recipes. This feature tells you how much a recipe will cost which is excellent for catering services.
Recipe Sharing and Exchange	Share recipes with other CALCMENU users who use the same database.
Nutrient Calculation	Link your food ingredients to the ones from international databases such as USDA, ASA, or BLS.
Shopping List Preparation	Create shopping lists for the recipes or menus you selected.
HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point)	HACCP is an excellent guideline to meet sanitary and hygienic standards in hotels, restaurants, and other foodservice industries.
Sub recipes (unlimited nesting of recipes within recipes)	A recipe is called a sub-recipe if it is used as an ingredient of another recipe. CALCMENU supports the unlimited addition of recipe to another recipe.
Supports Imperial (U.S., U.K.) and Metric measurement units	Merchandise unit sizes can be specified in Imperial (gallons, pounds, ounces, etc.) or Metric (kilograms, liters, etc.) measurements. Switch from Metric to Imperial units of measurement or combine both Imperial and Metric depending which is appropriate for the merchandise.
Link multiple pictures to merchandise, recipes, and menus	CALCMENU stores pictures of merchandise, recipe, and menu. Each item can have five pictures attached.
Menu Creation and Standardization	Create menu and impose price and other information. CALCMENU is capable of storing a number of menus.
Menu Costing	A real-time calculation of recipes and merchandise added to the menu will tell you the overall menu cost.
Menu Engineering	Analyze menus and individual menu items to achieve optimum profit. Use Menu Engineering to identify which menu items to retain or drop from your menu.
Translation of recipes, menus, etc.	Possibility to add translation of items in multiple languages for different purposes.
Calculate prices in multiple currencies	Manage varying prices of common merchandise bought from different locations. The program handles one currency for the price of the items. If you wish to know the price of the item in another currency, the program can calculate it based on the exchange rate you have provided.
Full text search	SQL Server Full Text Search compares every word in a document and lets you find a word or phrase anywhere in the document.
Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch Available in Italian, Russian, Japanese Available in Chinese	Supports several languages such as French, German, and Italian.
Standalone - Single workstation	The database and the program should be installed and accessed from the same computer. It’s an ideal solution for individuals and small workgroups.
Network (LAN) Use	EGS CALCMENU 2009 allows a group of users in a Local Area Network (LAN) to work on the main database in the server at the same time.
Handle multiple sites (worldwide)	This is ideal for companies that have multiple branches or companies that are located in different countries.
Access from any Internet Browsers	An Internet connection is required. Users may simultaneously access and work on the main database if they have a web browser and an Internet connection. A Local Area Network (LAN) is not required since the users connect to the database through the Internet. This means that users can be in different locations (for ex. in different cities or countries).
Link to External Application	Possibility to link with EGS F&B Control and Logimen.
Number of Users	It can accommodate unlimited number of users.
Number of workstation (client PC)	It can accommodate unlimited number of computers.
Database System	It uses the SQL Server database. This provides our clients a reliable database system which is highly scalable, very stable, and is not prone to corruption.
Action Marks	Action Marks are shortcuts in performing a similar function that could apply to marked merchandise, recipes, or menus.
Printing Options	EGS CALCMENU offers flexibility in preparing reports to be printed.
Category, Keywords, Sources Management	Manage categories, keywords, and sources that can be assigned to merchandise, recipes, and menus. These can also be used in searching.
Supplier Management	Suppliers and their details can be added in CALCMENU and they can be assigned to the corresponding merchandise. Suppliers can be used to search for merchandise items.
Tax Rate Management	Create and assign tax rates based on the tax values imposed on goods and services in your country.
User Management	The Administrator manages users of the program by creating user accounts and assigning the rights per user in CALCMENU.
Approval Routing Configuration	Approval Routing allows you to require that information get approved by one or more people before publishing it in CALCMENU Web. This serves as a control on what newly-added information will be made available to all users.
Advanced Fast Recipe Encoding and Recipe in Text-Mode	Advanced Fast Recipe Encoding is a new way of encoding and handling recipes which is faster and more convenient. This system also allows you to keep your recipes in text format and without linking ingredients to the merchandise list.
Recipes with Step-by-Step	Illustrating recipe steps using photos. Recipes can be divided into steps. Each step can have its own procedure, set of pictures, etc.

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