SOFTWARE FOR THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY

Abstract

The article provides an overview of programs that allow you to automate technological processes in the restaurant business. Traditionally, for the development of recipes for specialties and dishes for preventive and curative purposes, it is necessary to establish a significant number of prescription components. Therefore, it is important to use information technology and modern software to facilitate technological calculations in the design of multicomponent food systems with specified properties: food, energy, biological value and minimum cost. The analysis of the application software market for restaurant technologists is considered on the example of MS Excel software, “Expert software”, “Chief Expert”. The most interesting programs are: “Technologist-cook”, “Confectioner-technologist”, “Baker-technologist”. These programs are designed to implement elements of quality and safety in restaurants. Each of these programs allows you to quickly and efficiently develop regulatory and technological documentation in its direction and quickly provide each stage of the technological process with all the necessary information that allows you to really manage product quality. Automation of technological processes of food production guarantees the improvement of the processes of making high quality dishes and micrological safety, contributes to the competitiveness of the enterprise. When deciding on the use of application software, you need to make the right choice and buy a decent automation system. Choosing application software, it is necessary to determine what functionality is needed for a particular enterprise. It is also necessary to take into account an important price criterion when purchasing the software, the cost of its installation and maintenance.