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

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: ·    ...

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...

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...

Nutrition facts on food labels give consumers more information on the nutrient content of a particular food product. This enables them to make better food choices and follow a healthier lifestyle.   Below is a concise guide on nutritional information: Serving size . Considered as one of the most important nutritional information, as it provides consumers the number of servings in the package, the size of the serving, and the recommended amount of daily food intake. The serving size of the product can be written in Metric (e.g. gram, kilogram) and Imperial units (e.g. ounce, cup). Calories. It indicates the amount of energy you get from a serving.  Always keep in mind that the number of servings you eat defines the number of calories you consume. For example, if you’re eating or drinking exactly 1 serving , then the calorie information provided on the food label is the amount of calories you have consumed. Taking 2 servings or more would mean acquiring twice or...

How can we prevent food from going to waste? According to a study by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), approximately 1.3 billion tons of food produced are lost or wasted annually. Food wastes refer to food products ready for human consumption that are lost or wasted, while food losses refer to food lost during its production, processing or post-harvest stage. [1] This situation has caused many alarming food security problems and environmental challenges, which gave rise to many anti-food waste campaigns. It is a never-ending challenge to most restaurant owners and managers.   Image from http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20130410-play-your-part-in-the-global-food-crisis  by Herbert Lehmann/Getty The Involvement of the Foodservice Industry The foodservice industry, especially restaurants and catering services, has greatly contributed to this crisis as evidenced by the amount of their food wastes that end up in landfills. In order ...

Some consumers often recognize the importance of reading nutritional labels too lightly, as most think that only health professionals and nutrition experts would actually benefit from them. Nutritional information is found on prepackaged foods including nutritional values, allergens, expiration date, and the origins of food items. According to an article by Nancy Clarke (Feb. 12, 2011, LIVINGSTRONG.COM) , reading nutrition labels helps manage health conditions, balance nutritional levels, maintain a healthy weight and avoid chronic diseases. These labels help compare the nutritional values of a certain food item to another product as well as to inform the allergic consumers on the nutrient contents which may contain allergens as ingredients or as traces. Labels also provide consumers useful information on food restrictions such as religious, culture, and dietary concerns. In CALCMENU, not only does it provide reliable and adequate nutrition analysis data for the growing health-cons...

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...

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 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 ...