Recipe and Menu Engineering for the Modern Age
Plan pricing, portions, margins, costs and purchasing strategy, then publish allergen and nutritional information to all digital locations with one click.
Recipe and Menu Engineering
Effectively price your menus and plan your portion sizes, margins, costs and purchasing strategy in advance.
Recipe Management
Remove Guesswork
Accurate cost calculation of recipes and menu cycles removes all the guesswork around menu engineering analysis and menu pricing.
Recalculate Automatically
Recipe costs related to product or recipe changes are automatically recalculated.
Centralize
You can share a central recipe library across the business, ensuring consistency.
Be Efficient
Detailed reporting and smart analytics help deliver cost savings and efficiency.
Menu Cycles
Build with Ease
Full and varied menu cycles are easy to plan and build, using a weekly view that shows all the different meal periods for each day and the recipes allocated to each period.
Get the Full View
Full menu cost, nutritional analysis and allergen information is available for any given day or week within the cycle.
Take Control
Once published centrally, menus are instantly available to the right locations at the right times via PCs or tablets, giving you complete control.
Calculate Quickly
Our recipe and menu engineering software automatically calculates the nutritional value of your recipes from information entered manually, uploaded by suppliers or downloaded from the globally-recognized USDA and McCance & Widdowson databases. This means no lab costs and consultancy fees ever. Now you can easily and accurately label dishes with nutritional information with every menu change.
Identify Allergens
Our menu engineering software solution is your magic ingredient. All the allergen data you need is calculated automatically for every menu item.
Display with Ease
This same information is displayed and automatically updated directly from the system to everywhere your menus will be seen, including electronic signage, the staff’s tablets on site, your website and apps, the POS system and more.
Improve Guest Experiences
Improve your guests’ experiences and ensure compliance with legislation by providing full menu information, including allergen and nutritional information, in easy-to-use, interactive web pages that allow customers to filter items to create a personalized dining experience.
Automate Changes
Reduce the time and cost of updating menus by automatically publishing changes with a single click – instantly updating your website, apps, digital signage, registers and more.
KEVIN MILLER
Senior Director of Culinary, TGI Fridays
“Implementing the Fourth solution has literally saved us hours. We did a project for one of our new restaurant openings. Typically this project would have taken about 80 hours to complete. With the Fourth solution, it took us less than an hour.”