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EGS CALCMENU Gets 2016 Management Software Awards From FinancesOnline One of the most popular business software platforms - FinancesOnline, has recently prepared a very positive review of CALCMENU and distinguished this software with its prestigious Expert Choice Award for 2016 . The platform published very thorough CALCMENU reviews on their site, and the reactions of their review team of SaaS experts have been nothing but positive. FinancesOnline is delighted to hear that the review team appreciates the features allowing users (chefs, food and beverage staff, nutritionists, digital content managers among others) to create and share recipes online, and they loved how CALCMENU helped them to manage merchandise and other recipe data more easily. The thing that really impressed both FinanceOnline team was CALCMENU’s popularity among culinary experts, who revealed that our software is their favorite tool for recipe standardization for food costs, and nutrient calculation. The f...

Your school’s culinary prowess and a foodservice software programmed for excellence – now that’s the recipe for success. As Enggist and Grandjean Software SA celebrates its 25 th year of bringing world renowned professional foodservice software, it gives a special treat to all upcoming chefs and culinary institutions from all over the globe: CALCMENU Academic Edition . The CALCMENU Academic Edition comprises of solutions that are ideal for the scholastic setting. With features that train budding chefs on consistent recipe creation, nutrition valuation and automated costing, all in solutions that are easy to adapt to, CALCMENU is a chef’s partner not only in his time in the academe but for the rest of his future successful career. And the best part of this? Our offer for the Academic Edition come at no cost or with discounts of up to 80%. ** Here’s what EGS has to offer to all esteemed culinary schools and promising chefs-to-be: 2 SPECIAL OFFERS: ·    ...

Savoir cuisiner en gagnant du temps est un des objectifs à atteindre pour tous les jeunes chefs. Quelques raccourcis, astuces et conseils vous permettront d'avoir une longueur d'avance aux heures d'affluence du restaurant. Gagnez un temps précieux tout en servant des plats gastronomiques en un claquement de doigts grâce à ce vade-mecum : Commencez par lire les instructions Dans la précipitation, obnubilés par votre volonté de tout faire en même temps, vous risquez d'oublier la première étape, pourtant essentielle, de la préparation d'un repas réussi : la lecture des instructions de la recette. Avoir dès le départ une vue d'ensemble de la procédure présente l'avantage de vous permettre d'identifier les étapes initiales et les ingrédients à préparer en premier. Multitâche Comme dans toute fonction, la cuisine exige une capacité élevée à effectuer plusieurs tâches à la fois. Cela est indispensable pour pouvoir augmenter votre productivité en un ...

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...

Dank des Vormarsches von Mobilgeräten und Apps ist heutzutage fast alles was Sie benötigen mit nur wenigen Klicks erreichbar, Von Shopping über Reisen bis hin zur Arbeit, es gibt immer eine App, die Sie unterstützt, egal was Sie tun. Sogar fit und gesund bleiben und die eigene Ernährung überwachen ist dank zahlloser Gesundheits- und Fitness-Apps für Mobilgeräte heute viel einfacher. Gesundheitsbewusste können diese Apps einfach auf ihr iPad laden, um auch dann fit zu bleiben, wenn sie ständig unterwegs sind.  Hier stellen wir Ihnen vier empfehlenswerte Gesundheits- und Fitness-Apps vor:        Fitness Class Wenn Sie ein Fan von Fitness-Studios sind ist diese App für das iPad ein Must Have für Sie. Sie enthält über 475 Workappout-Videos in voller Länge, auf die Sie zugreifen, sie streamen oder herunterladen können - und das sogar ohne Internetverbindung! Die App ermöglich es Ihnen, die ungefähre Nummer der verbrannten Kalorien zu berechnen um so den F...

Thanks to the rise of mobile devices and applications, almost everything you need is now accessible in just a few clicks. From shopping to traveling and working, there’s always an app that you can use to assist you in just about everything you do. Even staying fit and healthy and keeping track of your diet is now much easier with the countless health and fitness apps available for mobile devices. For the health-conscious, you can just download these apps on your iPad to keep you fit even when you’re always on the go. Here are five health and fitness iPad apps worth downloading:        Fitness Class If you’re a gym rat, then the Fitness App for iPad is definitely a must have. The app features over 475 full-length workout videos, which you can access, stream, or download even without an Internet connection. The app also enables you to calculate the estimated number of calories burned per class, so you can easily monitor your progress. With the Fitness App, you c...

It’s that time of the year again when love fills the air and people turn into the most romantic versions of themselves. Figure 1 Turn your Valentine's Day into a trip down Wonderland with this delicious Queen of Tomato Tarts presentation (photo courtesy of  www.winosandfoodies.com ) From V-Day cards and cuddly teddy bears to blooming roses and heart-shaped cakes, everyone who has someone to celebrate the love month is surely trying to come up with ways to surprise the apple of their eye. If you want to make your Valentine’s dinner more special, don’t just stop at cooking a hearty meal for two. Play up your next moves with an exquisite presentation of the food you’ve prepared so lovingly.  Here are some easy and creative food presentation ideas to delight your dinner date: Tomato Tarts Wonderland’s a bite away with this delicious, easy-to-make Queen of Tomato Tarts. Puff pastry, mustard, and thick heart-shaped tomato slices...

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...

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 .

CALCMENU will be participating in Igeho , the most important international trade show for hotel and catering industry in Switzerland. Igeho will be held in Basel, Switzerland on November 19-23, 2011. Over 800 exhibitors in different fields such as Food & Drink; Kitchen technology & Cleaning; Delicatessen & Wines; and Restaurant & Hotel Requisites will gather together in Basel for five days. CALCMENU will join top executives and specialists from the hotel and catering industry in Igeho to give you a sneak peek of its newest and the latest offering to the foodservice industry. Watch out for more details about this exciting new solution from CALCMENU!

After defining your preferences in Part 1 , now it’s time to identify the other information needed in managing your recipes in CALCMENU . You can manage the categories, keywords, sources, taxes, texts, units, yield units, nutrient rules, labor and ingredients. In Managing the Merchandise List If you are managing your merchandise list (or ingredients list), I suggest you first create units, categories and suppliers. Units Identify which units you will use when creating new merchandise. Go to Configuration> Manage Units . CALCMENU has predefined units which you can already use. Just click the checkboxes of the units you want to use. It’s so easy! If there is a unit that you want to use but is not in the Unit List, you can quickly create a unit by clicking the Add button. Categories Categories are terms to classify a group of merchandise, recipes or menus. To create categories, go to Configuration> Manage Categories> Merchandise (Recipe or Menu) . You can create categories for...

After using the online demo of CALCMENU, you decided that it is the recipe management solution you needed and decided to buy CALCMENU. EGS sends you CALCMENU in DVD form together with the user manual. You install CALCMENU in your computer but, you are confused as to where to start. Here I will explain how to go about in starting to use CALCMENU. First, you need to configure your CALCMENU . Go to Configuration> Options and Preferences . This is where you set up the basic information you will use in the CALCMENU program itself and in managing your recipes. The Options dialog box displays the several information that you can configure. You can define your preferences for the general and default information, nutrients, picture, currency, import and contact. Define all the information that you will use in CALCMENU. For example, if you are using English as the language of the program, then select English in the General tab. Metric or Imperial? If you want to use kilograms, grams, li...

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

Restaurant menus may easily be dismissed as a mere list of food selections until one takes a look at the true power it holds in making or breaking the success of any restaurant business.  The menu directly reflects your restaurant’s personality and concept, and is a major factor in its profitability. It is actually the strongest and most consistent internal-marketing tool your restaurant employs. The menu is the only advertising material for your restaurant that you can be a 100% sure will be read by the guest and will directly influence them on their food choices, as well as the amount of money that will be spent.   Thus, aside from remarkable dishes and ambiance, a well-designed and well-engineered menu should also be on top of a restaurant’s priority list. Treat the menu as if your entire food business depends on it because it really does! Ample planning and research on customer demographics and pyschographics should be done as they directly ...

Along with the advent of “cloud computing” which transforms software from products to more of a service and enables the sharing of resources and information on a wider level, software companies have also began developing software with the same concept and which offers the same convenience.  This type of software is slowly making its way into both small- and large businesses’ systems or even homes. At first thought, such software would seem impractical and costly. But frankly, it’s the opposite. Allow me to give you the facts on this new software technology, Software as a Service, as well as on its perks. Software as a Service veers away from the typical software in a sense that instead of the all-too-familiar setup where you buy, install and use, this software would only require you to avail of a service access, connect and use.  This is because the software that you are using is not actually installed on your computer (thus no confusing installation procedures, installe...

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...