Access Procure Wizard
Menu engineering & food costing software
Our menu costing software enables hospitality operators to optimise profitability by controlling costs, determining margins and managing stock.
Created with the help and feedback of professional chefs and food and beverage specialists, our food costing software offers allergen and nutritional information tracking, stock and EPoS sales in one effective menu management solution.
Manage costs with menu costing software
Discover how menu costing software can revolutionise the way you manage CoGS, ensuring your business's profitability with precision and ease. Whether you’re a small cafe or bustling restaurant, our intuitive platform adapts to your needs, providing accurate insights that help empower decisions about your menu.
- Manage costs – real-time pricing directly from the supplier so you can choose the most cost-effective products
- Increase profitability – by tracking food waste costs and adjusting recipe portions to generate the most profitable yield
- Save time – we'll do the conversions, no calculators needed – choose your desired unit of measure and let our menu costing software do the rest
- Menu management – view user uploaded recipes, company recipes and copy and clone as needed as well as submit directly to HO for approval from inside the menu management software
Key benefits of menu engineering software
Menu engineering software enhances your ability to strategically analyse, refine, and maximise the profitability of your menu offerings. Explore the invaluable benefits below.
- Streamline your kitchen processes – add and update methods, mise-en-place, CCPs and front of house prep requirements easily as needed
- Allergen and nutrition labelling compliance – make tracking the calorie amounts, nutritional info and allergen components easy with allergen and nutrition software
- Stock control – Track sales, stock and place orders directly from your recipe and dish cards
- Menu optimisation – Identify high-cost items and opportunities for cost-saving adjustments to your menu, to maximise profit margins
Enhanced decision making – Access financial insights to make informed decisions about menu items, promotions, and pricing strategies
Watch video on how to save costs through menu engineering
Explore the features of our menu engineering software
Create batch recipes
Manage your batch recipes and work out costings, yield and profitability quickly and simply. Our menu engineering software allows you to adhere to your kitchen production plan with accuracy.
Create batched recipes that enable you to add a fully costed portion, drizzle or ladle-full to your plate with just the click of a mouse.
Organise your menu dishes
Preparing a dish with a fully costed specification is never at the top of chef’s to-do list, which is why our menu costing software reduces admin to give you products which are fully costed and have accurate allergen and nutrition data available at your fingertips.
You can add to recipes and dishes in whatever quantities you choose – no dish will ever be dated again!
Dishes are tagged and stored in easy-to-find folders with a dynamic search tool for easy referencing.
Staff & customer facing spec sheet
Creating an accurate batch recipe or menu dish via Access Procure Wizard’s food costing software is quick and easy. We understand the importance of ensuring that the production and front of house staff have access to a well-constructed specification that is relevant to them.
Methods, flexible portion calculator, allergen and nutrition data, gross and net weight production planner, critical control points and preparation instructions to create a dynamic dish spec as quick as a flash – no calculators, no spreadsheets, no messing around.
Photos and videos can also be added to create a visual guide in support of the written documentation.
These spec sheets can be produced for customer facing dish sheets, as well as internal use menu engineered data.
Product level integration
Our menu costings software integrates with your supplier catalogues for live pricing and up-to-date product information.
Our easy-to-use solution will help you control your costs and improve your profits without having to spend time maintaining a database of products and prices.
Sales mix analysis
With our menu engineering software, you can predict your gross profit margin based on the current sales mix represented on your menu, allowing you to launch a new menu with confidence that you have the right combination of profitable and popular dishes to produce the margin you are targeting.
Analysing and predicting your sales mix will accurately project your theoretical margin, ensuring you maximise revenue opportunity and accurately predict volume requirements.
Our food costing software allows you to continuously monitor performance of individual products on your menu so you can identify your stars – the popular and profitable outstanding performers, and the dogs – the products that are struggling to perform or produce a profit.
Our software allows you to continuously monitor performance of individual products on your menu so you can identify your stars – the popular and profitable outstanding performers, and the dogs – the products that are struggling to perform or produce a profit.
Gross margin analytics
Our menu costing software helps protect profitability whilst our gross margin analytics will accurately chart EPoS dish sales or sales by revenue sector, to underpin total profit transparency.
This will seamlessly link live purchases, product transfers, waste and stock consumption to provide accurate product level analysis as well as high level KPIs.
See our menu engineering software in action
What our customers say about our menu engineering software...
Loudons
"The technology they have given our business is the best on the market and when you use P2P, advanced stock, flash reporting, menus, dishes and recipes and allergen management in tandem, it really puts you in the best position to have a profitable business. We simply couldn’t control our costs without it."
Aspers
"We were delighted with the implementation – when you think about integrating a new software system into your business it can seem a daunting prospect. However, we were taken aback at just how painless, seamless and simple the whole process was."
Customer success story - Silverstone
Dean Hoddle, Head Chef at Silverstone Circuits discusses how Access Procure Wizard has streamlined his administrative work, increased his flexibility with suppliers and allowed him to get back into the kitchen. Since implementing the system, they have seen benefits such as:
- Fully integrated menu management, minimising manual admin
- Access to menu, allergen and costing data in one place, at the click of a button
- Extensive data on seasonality and trends
Read the case study to find more about the positive impact Access Procure Wizard has had at Silverstone Circuits.
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Purchase to pay software
Reduce food costs, adhere to compliance obligations and increase profitability with Access Procure Wizard, our cloud-based hospitality purchasing software
Allergen and nutritional management
Adhere to compliance obligations and legislation around food and menu labelling with our allergens and nutrition software
Menu management
Get full visibility over menus, dishes, waste, stock, allergens and nutrition
Food waste management
Track waste against multiple menus, categories and units
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