Cooking Schedule

Cooking Schedule

The inventory management module can help you in planning your cooking schedule. This feature is especially helpful for items that require a longer cooking time by letting you prepare these items in advance. The system looks at your sales for such items on the same day a week ago, and assumes that you will sell approximately the same number of items at approximately the same time that day. The system also takes into account the number of these items actually sold today, so it does not have you pre-cook too many of them. Prior to setting up the cooking schedule, it is important to have setup the inventory items, as well as all other settings and necessary components essential to the creation of inventory items.

Tracked Item

This column displays the names of tracked items.

Projection time in hours

This column displays the projection time in hours of each tracked item.

Click the Add button to select a new item to be tracked by the cooking schedule.

Select a tracked item and click the Modify button to change its projection time.

Select a tracked item and click the Remove button to take it out of the cooking schedule.

Click the Refresh Data button to either re-create or refresh the XML reference data used to generate the cooking schedule. This should be done after any changes to tracked items.

Extended Projection

Enable this option to use the average of the last 6 weeks instead of the sales from last week.

Display setup

Start Display Hour

Select from the list the first hour you want displayed on your cooking schedule.

End Display Hour

Select from the list the last hour you want displayed on your cooking schedule.

Tracked Item

Select from the drop-down list the inventory item to be tracked.

Projection time in hours

Select from the drop-down list the projection time, in hours, for that tracked item. For example, if you need 3 hours to thaw, marinate and cook an item, you will select a time projection of 3 hours, so that if the sales curve of the current day matches the sales curve of 7 days before, you will have plenty of time to prepare the number of items that you will likely need today.