Optimum Control
Restaurant Inventory
Made Easier
Addressing the challenges with
Restaurant & Bar Inventory Control
Optimum Control is a Hospitality Inventory Control system for Precise Menu and Recipe Costing, Simplified Ordering, Detailed Purchasing, Event Management, Nutritional Analysis, Comprehensive Reporting, and optional Aloha POS system integration.
Food and Recipe Costing
Optimum Control is designed for easy setup, know all of your recipe cost to optimize profitability
Purchasing, Pricing, Invoices
Use Optimum Control to simplify your purchasing with results that make sense. Buy from who you want and how you want.
Periodic Physical Inventory
Optimum Control saves time with simple, accurate yet forgiving inventory counting to fit your operation’s needs.
Inaccurate Reporting?
Use Optimum Control to make decisions that save time and money, ordering only what’s needed.
Accurate Inventory Reporting
Account for all of your stock to facilitate decision making, and know where your opportunities exist.
Catering and Banquets?
Use Optimum Control to confirm events and know what you need to plan and cost any banquet.
Recipe Costing, Inventory, Ordering, Purchasing, Allergins & Nutritional Information with Optimum Control
How does Optimum Control make
Inventory Control Easier?
Food and Recipe Costing
It’s all about taking the guess work out of event management!
Designed for Easy Setup
Determine the exact unit cost for every case size purchased
Setup case sizes by answering a few simple questions
Yield trimmed items without creating a recipe
Use duplicate function for similar item
Know All Your Recipe Costs
Indicate the expected yield of each prep and batch recipe
Find the true cost per portion for all recipes
Include detailed preparation instructions
Add sub-recipes as ingredients
Optimize Profitability
Calculate selling price based on target cost percentage
Link recipes to your POS system to identify theoretical usages
Recipe costs are updated as ingredient prices change
Inventory
It’s all about saving you time and making inventory counting easier!
Fits Your Operation’s Needs
Count inventory by full case, split case and even recipe units
Enter counts for as many locations per item as needed
Customize count sheets to match your storage locations
Format count sheets by location, group or even category
Simplified Inventory Counting
Count one or more case sizes for each item
Detail amounts of batch recipes on hand
Perpetual counts stored for non-key items
Import counts from a mobile device
Accurate, Yet Forgiving
Re-date an inventory entered for the wrong date
Adjust counts with full audit history
Value inventory using FIFO, Last Cost or Average Cost
Review counts and values before finalizing
Sales Export Module
It’s all about business automation, saving you time and money!
Features
Product sales are exported from your POS System into Optimum Control
Sales are processed daily directly into Optimum Control
Scheduled tasks can be run to fully automate sales extraction
Unlinked products are stored as Pending Sales so sales mix data is never lost
Optimum Control Sales Export automatically loads your sales and sales mix from your POS System everyday!! This has saved our staff so much time!!
- Robert Cawthorn, Franchise Partner, Tijuana Flats Burrito Company
Ordering
It’s all about making ordering easire!
Save Time Creating Orders
Create templates for commonly ordered items
Order from multiple suppliers at once
Export orders to many popular suppliers
Request bids from all suppliers simultaneously
Make Decisions that Save Money
Pick suppliers based on last supplier or best bid prices
Track bids on every case size purchasable
Verify orders with a receiving docket
Choose the correct case size for the order
Ordering Only What’s Needed
Create forecasted orders by per day usage, sales volume or par levels
Order by full or split cases
Generate purchase orders and receiving dockets to verify stock ordered to received
With Optimum Control you can track your purchasing, credits, interface with QuickBooks, and much more. Now when we have an issue with an item you can focus your attention to that item and stop saying “watch your food costs." If you don’t have Optimum Control you should, it is not difficult to set up….and you will be surprised with what you learn when you establish your Menu pricing and see your actual costs!!
- Robert Cawthorn, Franchise Partner, Tijuana Flats Burrito Company
Purchasing
It’s all about saving you money and making purchasing easier!
Simplify Your Purchasing
Update or overwrite prices as you enter the invoice
Create an invoice by receiving an order
Export purchase transactions to many popular accounting systems
Request a credit for returned stock
Get Results That Make Sense
Apply taxes and adjustments to the cost of purchased items
Update stock levels instantly
Know that an invoice will only save when balanced
Price changes flow through to all recipes
Buy From Who You Want - How You Want
Purchase an item in multiple case sizes
Know which case sizes are purchased regularly
Create templates for routine purchases
Searching by name or order code
Invoice Import Module
It's all about saving you time and reducing errors!
What does it do?
Imports your invoices from your suppliers electronically
Updates your prices and stock levels automatically
How will it benefit you?
Saves you time - Ability to enter a 5 page invoice within seconds.
Reduce Errors - Analyzes invoice lines and identities errors for easy correction.
Which suppliers do you work with?
• Sysco
• Pratt's
• Cheney Brothers
• GFS
• US Food Services
• Nicholas & Company
• Reinhart
• Shamroc
• Southern Wine & Spirits
• Crescent Crown Distributing
• Ben E. Keith
• Performance Food Services
• Flanigan's
• Coca-Cola
• Unisource
• Keany Produce
Note: Any Supplier that is able to export a CSV invoice file can be configured to work with this module.
From a Chef whom is responsible for entering 80% of invoices received, I am keenly aware of how much time and frustration the Invoice Import Module eliminates. The time it takes to integrate your items is truly worth the effort. I now have more time to be where I am needed, and enjoy being the most, in my kitchen.
- Patrick Gharrity, Chef, La Casa Sena, Santa Fe
Reporting
It’s all about getting the information you need!
Facilitates Decision Making
Generate reports with just a few simple clicks of a mouse
Filter reports to see the information you want
Export reports to many popular file formats
Over 70 reports available organized by category
Account For All Of Your Stock
Usage Summary – Actual vs. theoretical usage on all inventory items
Item Activity – Displays perpetual inventory quantities and values
Identify what was purchased from which supplier and what was paid
Know Where Opportunities Exist
Cost Analysis – Analyze cost of sales trends for up to four periods
Budget Variance – Identifies actual vs. budgeted values per GL account
Menu Engineering – Analyze menu item profitability and popularity
Catering and Banquets
It’s all about taking the guess work out of event management!
Plan And Cost Any Banquet
Detail event time, serve time and duration
Base quote on Selling price, Cover Price or even Cost of sales percentage
Extract stock from inventory once event is complete
Confirm The Event
Print a confirmation so the client can sign off
Display any special instructions required
Keep a detailed file of all events
Know What You Need
Print a shopping list for each event
View a scaled listing of all preps required
Automatically create an order ready to upload to suppliers
Product Integrations
Optimum Control integrates seemlessly with our POS Systems to grow your business.