ChefTec is an integrated program with recipe & menu costing, inventory control, and nutritional
analysis capabilities. Designed to meet the specific needs of foodservice operations of any size,
ChefTec Plus and ChefTec Enterprise provide users with powerful functionality in an easy to use Windows environment.

ChefTec is a complete package that offers Recipe & Menu Costing, Inventory Control, and Nutritional Analysis. It has advanced features that take advantage of the 32-bit platform and none surpasses its ease of use. ChefTec comes with over 1,900 inventory items preloaded to make startup faster.

The Recipe & Menu Costing part of the program allows you to write, store and scale an unlimited number of recipes. Calculate recipe costs and optimum menu prices instantly. Use any recipe as an ingredient in another recipe. Create complex menu items and function menus. Calculate food cost by percent food cost or profit margin. Customize kitchen readable recipes. Save or even import recipes in HTML format so you can post them over the web or send by e-mail to another ChefTec user.

A culinary spell-checker is included for writing your recipe procedures. It comes with over 160,000 words including culinary terms in French and Spanish . Plus, you may add any of your own words to the dictionary. You can also add preparation videos and photographs for plate turnout.

Inventory Control tracks and analyzes inventory purchases and price variances. The software can store an unlimited number of inventory items and purchases. Inventory items can hold purchases by multiple vendors with multiple product item codes. Ordering can be done based on bid prices, or on actual purchases. ChefTec allows for calculating physical inventory extensions. You can produce an ordering guide from par levels. For recipe costing, you can utilize purchasing history by last, highest or lowest prices. It has many detailed purchasing reports, as well as the ability to import online vendor ordering files.

Nutritional Analysis provides a quick and accurate analysis of nutritional values for over 1,300
inventory items. This includes instant calculation of nutritional information of recipes and
automatic analysis of recipes against the FDA and NLEA guidelines for dietary or health
claims.