Brief Overview of Resort Hotel.




Recipe Management Features

• Full recipe costing. Calculates production cost, price, food cost percentage, factor, mark-up, gross profit and gross profit percentage for all recipes and menus. Products failing to meet profitability targets are highlighted on screen and exception reports let you see poorly performing products.


• Multiple sales outlets. Resort Hotel lets you set up multiple sales outlets and each recipe/product can be sold at any number of outlets for different retail prices. Enter a recipe once and cost it for multiple trading locations.


• Drag-'n-drop or search/insert recipe building. Drag ingredients from a browser list into a recipe's ingredient list. Alternatively, search for component ingredients and sub-recipes by name to insert into recipes.


• Recipe scaling. Scale recipe quantities by either a scale factor or to produce a particular total recipe quantity.


• Pictures. Store and prints pictures (24bit color) with recipes and ingredients.


• Nested recipes. Embed sub-recipes within recipes to an unlimited depth. i.e. Create a recipe for Beef Stock and use that stock as an ingredient in as many other recipes as you wish. Later on if you decide to use a different Beef Stock recipe, just modify the sub-recipe and all other recipes referencing the Beef Stock recipe are automatically updated! Resort Hotel also displays a graphical representation of your recipe's structure showing component sub-recipes/ingredients and their required quantities.


• Menu Engineering. Analyze the sales performance of each of your retail products. View results in tabular or graphical form.


• Function/banquet costing. Cost one-off functions/banquets in minutes.


• Market lists. Generate market (order) lists for menus and/or functions. You can even combine any number of menus or functions into a single market list for ordering.


• Stock management. Combine purchase tracking and stocktakes with product costing to get overall Cost of Goods Sold figures for a trading period.

Tools

• Spell Checker. Check spelling for all text in your database.


• Import Wizard. Imports data into a Resort Hotel database. Import recipes in RXF and Meal Master format. With the phenomenal growth of the Internet in recent years, there are now thousands (maybe even millions!) of recipes available on the Internet for download. Also import ingredient details from plain ASCII text files or Microsoft Excel Workbook (.xls) files.


• Export Wizard. Exports data from a Resort Hotel database in several different file formats. Export Wizard will even export selected recipes to HTML web pages.


• Unit Wizard. Handles unit conversions. When Hotel can't determine how to convert between any two units, Unit Wizard is launched automatically to prompt for a conversion factor. These conversion factors are then stored for future reference.


• Report Wizard. Makes selecting reports a snap. Select from a huge range of reports (> 200) with most major report types offering a number of selection parameters to let you print exactly what you want.


• Replacement Wizard. Handles searching for, and replacing data within a Resort Hotel database. i.e. Replace every occurrence of self-raising flour with plain flour in every recipe.


• Case Wizard. Do your staff have trouble working out out how to turn CAPS-LOCK off? Turn that ugly mixed upper and lower case data into something more presentable. Case Wizard will scan your entire recipe database and convert all text into either all upper case, all lower case or proper case.


• Email Wizard. Email selected recipes or your entire database (optionally compressed) to your colleagues with a few mouse clicks.


• Export/email reports. Export or email all reports to ASCII text, MS-Word, MS-Excel and Lotus 123 files, as well as many other formats.


• HTML Export. Generate an entire recipe web site with a few clicks of the mouse. Use either the standard or your own custom HTML templates to get your recipe web looking 'just right'. Publish the recipes to the internet or use them on internal intranets.

Resort Hotel - Recipe Costing

Resort Hotel lets you cost recipes for any number of trading centres or outlets. In fact you can create a number of different sites (different cities or countries where your ingredient costs will differ) and set up outlets at each site.

Resort Hotel lets you cost recipes for any number of trading centres or outlets. In fact you can create a number of different sites (different cities or countries where your ingredient costs will differ) and set up outlets at each site.

The program will calculate each recipe's production cost (using the local ingredient prices from each site) and then calculate the food cost percentage, gross profit, etc. for the recipes.

The following screen shot shows the Recipe and Costing tab of the Resort Hotel Recipe Form. This form lets you set the ingredient list and also a list of outlets at which a particular recipe is sold.

The following screen shot shows the Ingredient/Recipe Pricing tab of the Resort Hotel Retail Product Prices Form. This form lists all of the retail recipes and ingredients along with their production costs, selling price, food cost percentage, gross profit, etc.

NOTE: In each of the forms shown above, changing one value in the list will cause all other values to be recalculated and re-displayed. For instance, you can change the price of a recipe and the program will automatically re-calculate the food cost percentage, fact, gross profit, etc. If you change the food cost percentage, the program will calculate a new selling price for the recipe.

Resort Hotel - Ingredient Insertion

There are two primary ways of inserting ingredients (and sub-recipes) into recipes. The first, is by dragging ingredients from Resort Hotel's floating Recipe Rollup window and dropping them into the recipe you are working on.

The following screen shot shows drag-n-drop ingredient insertion.

The second method for inserting ingredient and sub-recipes into recipes is by searching for them. You start by pressing the INSERT key from the recipe's ingredient list. Resort Hotel displays the Search/Select dialog (see screen shot below).

Then you type in a few letters of the name of the item you are searching for. In the example above, we're looking for the ingredient Sugar Icing, so we type in the letters 'icing' and as we type the program searches the database and lists all ingredients and recipes with those letters in their names.

You just then select the actual ingredient (or sub-recipe) you want from the list and that item will be inserted into the recipe you are creating.

You use exactly the same procedure when inserting recipes into menus.

Resort Hotel - Pictures in Ingredients and Recipes

You can store full 24 bit colour graphic images with both ingredients and recipes in your recipe databases.

Resort Hotel - Menu Engineering

Menu Engineering is all about bottom line profits and seeing where they're coming from. By analyzing your menu's performance, you can see exactly which products are generating the most profit, and which are generating the most sales (the two don't always go together).

Many foodservice professionals focus solely on food cost when analyzing their menus, frequently losing sight of the bigger picture - where the actual bankable profit is coming from. Menu engineering analysis classifies, or ranks your products based on each item's demand (sales volume, or menu mix) and profitability (contribution margin) to give you the broader picture of which products are the best financial performers on your menu.

A detailed description of menu engineering can be found in the following FAQ topic:

The best news is that Resort Hotel's menu engineering takes very little effort on your part. You just build a menu and fill in the unit sales (budget and actual) for each item on the menu. The program does the rest. In the example screen shot below, the only data entered by the user are the numbers in the Quantity column. All of the other figures are automatically calculated by Resort Hotel.

The Resort Hotel screen shot (above) shows a fairly simple menu with three sub-menus. A real menu would have many more items on it. You can include such things as your wine list along with any other items such as bread selections, etc. in your menus. Just remember to keep them grouped in logical sub-menus and Resort Hotel takes care of the rest.

Along with the menu engineering rankings, Resort Hotel also calculates overall food cost percentage, factor, markup and gross profits for the entire menu.

As well as showing a tabular view of your menu engineering data (as seen in the screen shot above), Resort Hotel also generate a menu engineering graph to make assessing product performances even easier. (See the screen shot below.)

The menu engineering graph shows the details for a single sub-menu at a time. Each menu item on the sub-menu is displayed on the graph making it very easy to see which items are selling and which items are profitable.

You can also print you menu engineering graphs and tables. See the screen shot of a print-preview below.

Menu engineering calculations, while not exactly rocket science, can be time consuming, tedious and prone to error. Resort Hotel makes the whole business as simple as possible.

Resort Hotel - Market Lists

Resort Hotel can generate market lists from your menus and/or functions/banquets. The program reverse-engineers each ingredient and recipe in the menu or function to determine the entire ingredient requirements for the menu/function.

When printing market lists, you can combine market lists from any number of menus and functions to generate a single large market list. The resulting market list can be printed as a full alphabetical list of the ingredient requirements or as supplier based orders ready to fax.