Restaurant Inventory Management System
On average, restaurants spend around 30% of the monthly budget on food and beverage purchasing. Due to lack of visibility into restaurant stock shelves, around 10% of the purchased food ends up in the trash, which results in huge money loss.
Therefore, an effectively functioning restaurant inventory management is one of the most important assets of restaurant daily operations. It helps not only reduce food spoilage but also control and manage restaurant costs.
Challenge
Therefore, an effectively functioning restaurant inventory management is one of the most important assets of restaurant daily operations. It helps not only reduce food spoilage but also control and manage restaurant costs.
Many restaurants use Excel sheets and manual registers to monitor their inventory. However, manual tracking methods are too time and energy-consuming. They generate extra paperwork, increase the risk of errors, and lead to employee burnout.
But with the right restaurant software in place, restaurant managers can always stay on top of the restaurant stock to make more data-driven purchasing decisions and reduce costs.
Solution
The Restaurant Inventory Management System by Softarex provides the following functionality:
- Restaurant demand management based on real-time AI analysis of online and offline orders, the creation of production plans for the kitchen, and inventory management.
- Calendar — allows users to create restaurant events — from wine tastings to wedding receptions for 100 guests — and specify all necessary attributes: type, the number of guests, menu, staff assigned to serve an event, etc.
- Stations — users can create an unlimited number of cooking stations: dessert, sauté, grill, etc., and assign line chefs to execute orders. Staff can leave notes about the stations they work at for other shifts.
- Task management using kanban boards. Restaurant managers can create, assign tasks and check their completion percentage.
- Recipes — users can create detailed recipes and upload photos and videos to visualize the cooking process in detail.
- Menus — all the recipes can be grouped into menus and then sorted into easily managed Trello-like categories.
- Inventory management — automatically adds items from today's menu, grouped by recipes, to the to-do list of each kitchen station. Chefs can update the status of ingredients once they have been inspected and prepared for use in cooking.
- Shopping list — enables restaurant managers to create shopping lists.
- Chat — communication channel for staff working at different kitchen stations.
- Role-based access control — allows users to define access permissions for each staff member.
- Thanks to the adaptive interface of our solution, all the above features are available using both a computer and a tablet.
Project Results
Softarex’s Restaurant Inventory Management System allows restaurant owners to achieve the following:
- More data-driven restaurant inventory management decisions;
- 20% less spoiled food;
- Enhanced kitchen staff communication;
- Reduced costs.
Technical challenges
- Implementation of role-based access control;
- AI-based demand analysis and prediction.
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Maxim
System Architect and Delivery Manager
In over 10 years of my professional career, I have developed, architected, and managed dozens of projects for the Manufacturing & Energy, Restaurant & Hospitality, Aviation, and IT industries. I have hands-on experience with Mobile technology, Computer vision, Machine learning, Predictive modeling, Cloud computing, and SaaS.
I managed the development of a Computer vision-based kitchen management system for a large restaurant chain. We did a great job on this project, and I consider it the highlight of my career.