Education

Menu Management

Create and manage your menus with ease! Whether your campus has one main dining facility or multiple dining venues MealSuite provides a complete menu development and management solution created to ensure your students receive nutritionally sound meals that meet their expectations while also staying within your budget.

You can create your own menus, or you can utilize one of one of the existing menus that are created, reviewed and approved by MealSuite’s team of dietitians. The system includes thousands of HACCP-ready recipes to help expedite menu creation. From cycle menus, to menus for holidays, snacks, and even emergencies, your operation is well supported.

• Keep your costs within budget by costing your recipes and menus in advance of service.
• Create menus for multiple venues including fast food, grab-and-go, cafeteria and table dining.
• Analyze costs and nutritional data in real-time as you create or edit your menus.
• Use MealSuite Touch to publish your menus electronically (on menu boards, on the web, etc.).

Costing

Calculate the cost of your menus and recipes based on pricing from multiple vendors, including your primary supplier. MealSuite allows you to download order guides so you can maintain up-to-date pricing and ensure you come in on budget.

• Reduce your food cost by costing your menus and recipes.
• Calculate the portion cost of your menu and/or recipes easily.
• Utilize tools that help manage your budget, such as reports showing daily cost per menu, weekly average cost and overall average menu costs.
• Build menus keeping cost in mind, easily predetermining which recipes fall within ideal budget range.

Recipes

MealSuite includes a recipe database with 1,000’s of recipes created by our Registered Dietitians. Right from day one, you can start using thousands of HACCP-ready recipes either directly or edited to make them uniquely yours.  Recipes are flagged with allergens so you can communicate this data to your students.

• Scale and print recipes to any yield to support standardization and reduce waste and save cost.
• Cost recipes on-screen as you edit them to engineer the right portion cost.
Create recipes with 3,600+ ingredients and prepared foods that have been nutritionally linked to USDA nutritional data; nutritionally analyze your recipes on-screen.
• Print a variety of reports, including nutrition facts labels.

Production

Streamline production and reduce waste by forecasting your menus and scaling your recipes before preparing your meals. Create customized reports including yield specific recipes, checklists, temperature checks and more.

• Reduce food cost by forecasting and producing only what you need.
• Forecast future meals and generate your ordering requirements.
• Print a variety of reports based on current feeding habits.
• Support HACCP controls in your kitchens.
• Add MealSuiteTouch to view production and recipe information on touch screens in your kitchen so you can eliminate paper and recipe binders

Inventory & Purchasing

Save time and simplify your inventory process with MealSuite. Integrate your food vendor pricing with the products in your storage locations to quickly and accurately calculate the value of your inventory. Reporting options include up-to-date inventory valuation, analysis of inventory by GL/accounting code and more.

• Limit your on-hand inventory with automated controls.
• Manage multiple storage locations.
• Enter your inventory quickly and easily.
• Support either physical or perpetual inventory.
• Manage real-time perpetual inventory so you always know what is available.
• Generate purchase orders for vendors based on your production needs.
• Receive your orders into the system to support perpetual inventory.

Display Boards

Plan and manage your food service operation more professionally and efficiently with MealSuiteTouch.  Say goodbye to printed menus for good as the system instantly reflects your menu on touch screen displays in your dining rooms and your school’s website. Access electronic Recipes at Scale and Production Reports on touch screens in the kitchen, eliminating the printing step if desired. The same great reports found in MealSuite are now taken to the next level with multiple access points.

• Go green! Use less paper and save on paper costs with digital menu boards.
• Use any tablet to quickly access production data.
• Show menus on touch screen boards where students can tap items and see popup nutrition, allergen and ingredient lists.
• Drive the menu and nutrition data to your website