ProductionDiscover the tools and automation to ensure your production process runs smoothly
The key to a successful school food service production operation is efficiency. OneSource will help you streamline the entire production process:
- Determine inventory requirements
- Add leftovers to menu plan
- Identify how much food to prepare
- Schedule staff
- Prepare recipes and serve
- Record end-of-day production results
You will be able to fully organize your operation, improve productivity, and maximize your staff's efficiency in the kitchen.
Effective pre-production processes
- Determine inventory requirements automatically based on the scheduled menu plan
- Identify shortages and make substitutions with ease
- Adjust the feeding figure if needed and the system automatically scales menu plans and recipes
- Add leftovers from inventory to daily production
Efficient Production Procedures
- Print pull tickets by individual recipe and/or combined for all recipes
- Convert servings to inventory units, saving time and minimizing waste
- Provide easy-to-follow recipe worksheets that include detailed instructions in USDA format or summarized
- Indicate the items used by checking off items on the production ticket
- Document temperatures and maintenance of HACCP procedures to ensure compliance
- Record staff’s time to determine labor cost per recipe if desired
Helpful Scheduling Features
- Schedule the daily meal plan easily—simply assign employees to items using a drop down list
- Insert projected start and finish times if desired
- Add non-menu tasks such as clean up detail and user-defined tasks to the daily schedule
- Post or hand out production schedules to improve efficiency, reduce time in meetings and minimize confusion
Fast End-of-Day Processing
- Enter end-of-day processing data in only minutes per day
- Add leftovers to stock or discard; system stores leftovers in use by date order
- Track discarded leftover values by site
- Reduce inventory levels according to the day’s production automatically if desired
Cut costs and minimize waste using helpful reports
- Track labor hours for site Profit & Loss reports
- Reduce food costs using the Over Production Report to identify over production by site and compare district average to sites
- Minimize waste with the Leftover Discard Value report to identify excessive leftover waste at a glance
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- Manage employees’ daily schedule easily
- Generate daily menu plans and recipes automatically. HACCP is included in instructions
- Manage leftovers and track shelf life
- Update inventory automatically for perpetual inventory purposes
- Meet all compliance standards with complete production records
- Reduce food cost and waste by identifying problem areas
“I can make changes to the menu from my office for all of the schools.”
Since Horizon’s back of the house modules are fully integrated, changes made to the menus automatically update the production records.
“The amount of paper we used to print hard copies of everything was huge. Now everything is maintained in the system.”
Lasinda Orr
Rock Hill School District Three
Download the Rock Hill Case Study.
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Case studies reflect a particular outcome within an individual business and does not necessarily guarantee the same results to another business. Your results may be affected by factors such as size, technology, user experience, and other intangibles. Our sales representatives and client relations managers will work with you to determine what software will work best for you based on those factors.