CALCMENU - Making the business profitable with the right culinary solution.

Label printing made easy Label printing presents a variety of challenges that can come from accuracy of the label to the speed and convenience of the action. That’s why EGS CALCMENU found a solution to make an otherwise tedious and complicated kitchen task a little more manageable. Introducing the newest addition to EGS CALCMENU’s roster of innovation, Food Label Assistant. A free downloadable app available for all Windows 10 formats (PC, Laptop, Tablet) to… Well… Assist you in any number of foodservice label printing tasks. We know what you’re thinking “It’s just food labels, how hard could it be?” Well, we don’t doubt your label making prowess but can you ensure your customer’s safety with the multitude of ingredients, nutrients, and most importantly, allergens packed up on the food product you are selling? EGS CALCMENU knows the importance of these oftentimes neglected information. Food Label Assistant helps foodservice professionals design and print comple...

Cooking in the most time-economic way possible is a skill all chefs-in-the-making should master. A few kitchen shortcuts, tips, and tricks will certainly go a long way in beating the dinner rush in a crowded restaurant. Save yourself some precious kitchen time and serve gastronomic meals in a snap with these tips:          Read instructions first In your rush to get everything done right away, you might forget the first essential step in cooking a great meal—to read the recipe instructions. It pays to know the entire procedure beforehand, so you’ll know which steps to prioritize and which ingredients to prepare first. Multi-task Like with all other jobs, cooking also requires a high level of multitasking skills. This is necessary to get more done in a shorter amount of time. One effective way to multitask in the kitchen is to start preparing other ingredients while boiling water or waiting for the oven to warm. This way, the ingredients have a...

Around 80,000 food service and hospitality companies from around the world gathers this coming November 23 to 27 at an international exhibition known as the IGEHO Expo 2013. At IGEHO, companies and individuals alike are given an opportunity to showcase what they can offer for the foodservice industry. It serves as a platform not only for them to promote their brands or products, but also for the attendees to interact with the experts in the industry. IGEHO 2011 was attended by over 74000 people in Switzerland - a conclusive proof that the said event has been a huge success. After two years, a great number of exhibitors including EGS CALCMENU look forward to this anticipated event to be even more successful. This year, EGS CALCMENU joins IGEHO Expo once again! Learn more about our RECIPE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS catering to the requirements of chefs, food and beverage managers, restaurant owners, culinary students, food manufacturing companies, consumer brand providers and a lot more. ...

Enggist & Grandjean Software SA , developer of the CALCMENU Recipe Management Software Solutions , launches the new Recipecenter.com , an extensive collection of recipes from around the world -- from amateur to professional chefs and site members who may rate and review recipes online. Our aim is to provide continued customer satisfaction, guaranteed company credibility, and great recipes for you and your families, whenever and wherever you may be. We are solely dedicated to gather, collect and share only the best recipe ideas that will surely tickle your interests! The website also features different recipes everyday on the home page, ranging from simple to complex and classic to modern to challenge and enhance your current cooking skills. If you are a chef/cook, a culinary student, both starters and pros - or maybe just about anyone who loves food, we invite you to join and enjoy the goodness of healthy, easy-to-make yet fantastic recipe...

The Kiosk for CALCMENU is the latest solution from EGS . It allows foodservice professionals like chefs, culinary arts students, caterers, F&B Managers and other food enthusiasts to share their recipes in CALCMENU with any PC and even via mobile. The Kiosk for CALCMENU can be viewed on any PC with an Internet browser (Windows, Macintosh, Android, etc.) and even on smartphone (iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, etc.). The Kiosk is secure and private as it requires a login. Your login details in the EGS Website, which are associated with your CALCMENU product keys and serial number, are used as your login details in the Kiosk for CALCMENU.     The Kiosk for CALCMENU is available to clients of EGS CALCMENU with valid EGS Support and Update Plan .   Our latest version also works on Windows 8!  

The food industry professionals understand that it is certainly imperative to use a software for food and recipe management with other information that goes along each item and ingredient. It would nearly impossible to accomplish without using software, though it may still seem as a challenge for some to deal with technical basics. In reality, most chefs would still rather enjoy cooking and preparation rather than organizing recipe collections with a software that confuses the technical with their cooking functionality and artistry. Recipe software should therefore be easy and pleasant to use, eliminating the challenge of actually entering data and optimizing the information of the stored data. CALCMENU is a software that makes it very convenient with more features to offer: shopping lists, automated recipe calculation, exportation of recipes to an external web service, unit conversion, etc. EGS has developed CALCMENU - a suite of R...

Software and technology has been of great assistance in the daily living of individuals and regular operations of many companies worldwide. In the corporate world, the implementation of different automated software performing their respective purposes plays a significant role on the organization’s innovation and growth. For an instance, data management is one of the important processes in any organization. Well-managed data is a crucial factor that is easily observed when there is optimized productivity and an increase in the company’s efficiency. However, many inconsistencies occur when the organization becomes overwhelmed with great collections of records in several diverse applications. Worse case scenarios such as financial loss and poor company credibility will happen eventually if these inconsistencies are neglected. Hence, EGS never fails to provide our customers accurate and up-to-date recipe management software for better processes of storing and organizing recipe data. In ...

A fun feature of CALCMENU Cloud on the Recipe Module is the Picture Control where the user can add more photos, edit, delete, set default, zoom, and even arrange the food pictures in steps! Recipe Picture Control- Easily add and browse photos to upload. Recipe Picture Control (EDIT) - Opens the picture editor to modify the selected picture – rotate, resize, crop, flip, draw text, and more! Recipe Picture Control (ZOOM IN) - To display a bigger size of the selected image – great for first-time food preparations and when you want to magnify the image. Recipe Picture Control (ARRANGE) - A pop-up window opens to let the user organize the images’ positions  by dragging the image. This can be used as a training tool for showing the procedures step-by step!

CALCMENU joined hundreds of exhibitors in the recently concluded Igeho exhibition for international food, catering and hospitality companies held in Basel, Switzerland. In the 5-day affair of one of Europe’s most important events for the foodservice industry, EGS CALCMENU’s CEO Marc Enggist presented the different EGS solutions to CALCMENU’s visitors as well as showed a sneak peek of CALCMENU’s newest recipe management solution – CALCMENU Cloud . This cloud-based recipe management solution is geared to be formally launched in 2012. Enggist noted a remarkable number of interested   clients and visitors for CALCMENU’s recipe and back office management solutions, as well as its latest solution for 2012 -- CALCMENU Cloud . Many signed up to receive updates and information once this cloud-based solution is launched in the market. CALCMENU Cloud offers convenience on accessibility which is one of the most sought-after features paving the most current direction to the software’s fut...

Come and visit the CALCMENU booth at the Igeho Expo in Basel, Switzerland! The CALCMENU booth is in Hall 2.1/Stand D36 . We will be showcasing our different recipe management solutions from November 19-23 .

The USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) recently introduced a new eating guide called MyPlate which replaces the decades-old Food Guide Pyramid. MyPlate is a plate icon sliced into four to represent different food groups. Each colored section is for fruits, vegetables, grains and proteins. A circle icon for dairy is also included in the new guide. MyPlate encourages people to eat more fruits and veggies (should be half of your meal) and reduce sodium-rich soups, bread and frozen meals. The release of a new eating guide is part of the US’ movement to deal with the obesity problem in America. US First Lady Michelle Obama says “ This is a quick, simple reminder for all of us to be more mindful of the foods that we're eating .”* To know more about MyPlate, you can check out this website: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ . * Reuters.com

Last week, we have talked about the importance of nutrient and allergen management tools like EGS CALCMENU and EGS F&B Control, for foodservice professionals. We have concluded that such tools are an effective way to keep up with the growing need of informing consumers of the nutrient and allergen content in food products and in improving nutrient and allergen management in the food industry. This week, we have listed down the various ways on how these tools, specifically EGS CALCMENU and EGS F&B Control help in ensuring reliable nutrient and allergen management. 1. CALCMENU Pro and CALCMENU Enterprise automatically provide nutritional information for your recipes and menus. Each recipe’s nutritional content can be easily calculated to up to 12 nutritional values that you have chosen from several databases or references such as USDA (American reference), BLS (German) and ASA (Swiss).  Nutrient Tab in CALCMENU Enterprise containing the nutrient information of...

Nowadays, it is not enough for customers to just pick out any dish in a menu. Most of them make it a point to know what is in the dish—sometimes even demanding a detailed listing of the ingredients. It is a more vigilant approach to what you eat that can make a big difference in keeping yourself in the pink of health. More and more health-conscious people keep track of each nutrient they take in, making sure that each intake is only within the recommended daily serving allowance. Others however, need to be more particular with the ingredients in their meal due to possible presence of allergens. Allergens are substances in food that cause an adverse reaction, usually affecting the immune system. Virtually all allergens are proteins and can be present in large amounts and most often, survive food-processing conditions. If no extra care is made, ingestion of even a small amount, sometimes less than a milligram (e.g. a tiny fragment of almond or two sesame seeds) can lead to an ups...

It is undeniable that successful companies are those that are able to maintain at least 28-35% of their food costs, on the average, where at least 50% to 70% of their total sales are spent on food inventories, consumption as well as labor costs . Because of the impact that food costs has on the overall profitability of a food service company, one must be able to manage it carefully in order to increase profits by avoiding losses. You are probably thinking: “So how can we control our food cost?” There are many ways to do so but two of the most effective ways are to control your inventory and look into your menu pricing strategy . You may have received a good deal from your suppliers by ordering in bulk, however, think about this: you may be tying in your cash flow or store room for paying and stacking an inventory that may end up just sitting in your stock room for a long period of time. Or inversely, you may have also experienced scrambling and pulling your hair out as you scramble fo...