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

Consistency . One cannot overemphasize the need for consistency in the single most important asset in the food industry— recipes . As the key channel to consumers, recipes must be consistent not only in ingredients and keywords but also in template and format across all brands and markets so as to maintain a standardized quality that is in line with the reputation of the company. In fact, there exists an emerging need for multinational consumer goods companies to have a centralized recipe management database which will be of aid in making their recipe information freely and universally available to consumers. This is where EGS CALCMENU, one of the world leaders in foodservice software development, comes into play. Leading multinationals have sought professional help from EGS Enggist and Grandjean Software SA vis-à-vis their global recipe management concerns. Fusing technology with culinary expertise, EGS has been the go-to company of over a million of satisfied users and ap...

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!

Loyal EGS CALCMENU user Executive Chef Chiquita Gulati as featured in Fermina North introducing Recipe Management Technology in India! "Today, the lady, unnerved by the industrials knives, tie up for north India with EGS, one of the leading recipe management software companies in the world." "Most chefs are still used to cooking by estimates, which should be replaced by standard prcocedures, now that there is a technology for it. " Executive Chef Chiquita Gulati talked about CALCMENU and EGS.

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...