Menu and Recipe Engineering

The correlation between the cost of goods, the prices on your menu, and the product mix you sell can be the triangle of success. However, the inability to quickly evaluate the impact of commodity costs across recipes in each region can result in a devastating erosion of margins. CrunchTime! aligns your restaurants onto a standard set of recipes and products while capturing restaurant-level costs in real-time.

The centralized management of all recipes and menus ensures consistent food quality across all of your restaurants. To protect consumers and comply with food safety regulations, CrunchTime! provides a nutritional calculator that is integrated with the USDA database, recipe labeling, and lot tracking. Allergens are tracked from the ingredient to each recipe. Features include:

• Recipe Modeling - CrunchTime!’s Recipe Modeling suite equips your culinary, marketing, and procurement teams with a simple ‘playground’ to analyze the impact of ingredient costs, the profit margin for a given menu price, the menu price for an expected profit margin, and the current cost to produce a recipe in each region.
• Menu Engineering - Analyze customer demand, percentage sales contributions, costs and profit margins that allow you to engineer more profitable menus as well as eliminate menu items with low profit margins.
• LTO Management - Launch more effective campaigns by understanding the true plate cost of a new LTO or promotion – prior to rollout.
• Centralized Recipe Management - By centrally defining your recipes, production methods, portion size, products, and substitutes, you can ensure consistent food quality and a superior customer experience across your restaurants.
• Centralized Production Rules - Ensure consistent food quality and increase kitchen efficiency by providing detailed production steps and plating instructions. Upload pictures and videos to increase execution levels at the restaurants.
• Nutritional Calculator - As you build and alter recipes, monitor the nutritional attributes associated with each menu item including calories, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates and proteins.
• Allergen Data - Ensure the safety of your customers by centrally monitoring allergen data for each recipe including dairy, egg, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, soy and more.
• Comply with Menu Labeling Laws - Meet the regulatory requirements of local and federal menu labeling laws by centrally managing and displaying nutritional and caloric attributes for each menu item.