Environmental Health enforces the law:
Control Catering provides the solution
Control Catering is the total allergen solution for Caterers
Helping Caterers create recipes, incorporate them into bespoke menus, automatically manage and identify allergens, count calories, train staff, control kitchen costs and profit.
Automatically import food data from catering suppliers and track suppliers’ invoices and pricing changes.
Control Catering helps you to manage:
Allergens
- Provide essential & legal information to staff and customers
- Identifies allergens automatically from recipe to menu
- Adjust recipes for customer lifestyle preferences
- Identify and avoiding risk of cross-contamination
Recipes
- Create recipes
- Combine recipes
- Consistency of food offerings, standards and portions
- Saves time - lessens errors
- Import into different menu templates
- Embed menus directly on your own website
Calories
- Automatically calculates calories in each dish
(will be law soon – get ahead of the game!) - Dietary and health information to staff and customers
Training
- Provides training material
- Recipes with procedure pictures
- Assists with staff assessment
Cost Control
- Automatically costs dishes
- Sets profit margins
- Tracks changes to costs and updates selling prices
- Menu costs for easy reference
- Changeable VAT calculation
Suppliers
- Pricing changes automatically updated to recipes
- Compare pricing and quotes from different suppliers
- Track supplier price increases and discounts
- Import supplier data and invoices
The above is an example of a menu entered into Control Catering with alergen and calorie information as part of each recipe that goes to make up the menu. Any changes to the recipe or to the supplier product automatically flow through to the customer facing online and printed menus
Pricing
Plans for teams of all sizes
Think that you may need higher levels?
Talk to us about our Multi-Site Plan
(Price on application)
Small Caterers / Manufacturers
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Features
- Included Foods
- Included Recipes
- Included Suppliers and Costings
- Included Team Members (Up to 4 users)
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Menus and Recipe Groups
- Included Menus and Recipe Groups (1)
- Included Recipe Courses (5)
- Included Menu Layouts (1)
- Included External Menus (1)
- Included Print Label Layouts (unlimited)
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Support
- Included Help Tips on Every Page
- Included Training Videos
- Included Comprehensive Printable Manual
- Included Bookable Training and Admin
- Included Free One-to-one Onboarding Tour
Mid-Range
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Features
- Included Foods
- Included Recipes
- Included Suppliers and Costings
- Included Team Members (Up to 10 users)
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Menus and Recipe Groups
- Included Menus and Recipe Groups (6)
- Included Recipe Courses (25)
- Included Menu Layouts (6)
- Included External Menus (6)
- Included Print Label Layouts (unlimited)
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Support
- Included Help Tips on Every Page
- Included Training Videos
- Included Comprehensive Printable Manual
- Included Bookable Training and Admin
- Included Free One-to-one Onboarding Tour
Full-Range
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Features
- Included Foods
- Included Recipes
- Included Suppliers and Costings
- Included Team Members (Up to 50 users)
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Menus and Recipe Groups
- Included Menus and Recipe Groups (25)
- Included Recipe Courses (unlimited)
- Included Menu Layouts (unlimited)
- Included External Menus (25)
- Included Print Label Layouts (unlimited)
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Support
- Included Help Tips on Every Page
- Included Training Videos
- Included Comprehensive Printable Manual
- Included Bookable Training and Admin
- Included Free One-to-one Onboarding Tour
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Small Caterers /
Manufacturers
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Mid-Range
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Full-Range
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| Price |
£300
/ year
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£650
/ year
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£1,100
/ year
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| Features | |||
| Foods | Included | Included | Included |
| Recipes | Included | Included | Included |
| Suppliers and Costings | Included | Included | Included |
| Team Members |
Up to 4 users
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Up to 10 users
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Up to 50 users
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All plans have access levels for team members, SUPER_ADMIN, ADMIN, EDITOR and
VIEWER giving different permissions to edit information |
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| Menus and Recipe Groups | |||
| Menus and Recipe Groups | 1 | 6 | 25 |
| Recipe Courses | 5 | 25 | Unlimited |
| Menu Layouts | 1 | 6 | Unlimited |
| External Menus | 1 | 6 | 25 |
| Print Label Layouts | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Support | |||
| Help and tips on every page | Included | Included | Included |
| Training Videos | Included | Included | Included |
| Comprehensive Printable Manual | Included | Included | Included |
| Bookable Training and Admin | Included | Included | Included |
| Free 1:1 onboarding tour | Included | Included | Included |
Testimonials
I am the Head Chef at the Lobster Pod Bistro, a Seafood Restaurant that also specialises in Pizzas on the South Devon coast. In the summer season, from our small kitchen we serve 300 plus customers a day. This includes a restaurant and a busy take-away operation, all being prepared in a kitchen that also kills, prepares and serves live lobsters, crabs and oysters. These are not only a potential life threatening food safety risk, they are also life threatening allergens and have to be managed along side a pizza section staffed with seasonal employees, that happens to be the only restaurant in the area happy to cater for coeliacs.
So when I was given the opportunity to trial and create a Control Catering Database and program for the Lobster Pod Bistro, I immediately could see the benefits that it could bring. Starting the program was to begin with perhaps a little daunting, but when broken down and completed in stages, it began to take shape and it got my team involved in helping with recipes, taking photos and became a part of staff training before it was completed! The process of creating the database really helped me to think about procedures and costings from a different perspective and has made efficiencies in my kitchen for sure.
The fact that the system is live has made a change to my day to day routine. We have a daily changing fish specials board, so being able to upload the menu live each morning live to an external iframe, with changes of price (Due to price changes in fish markets) and when changing recipes, sauces and ingredients, all allergens are automatically altered on a few clicks of a button, this is so time saving with the influx of seasonal staff it saves me having to repeat myself multiple times a day and takes the pressure off in the middle of a busy service in having to recall all the allergens in a new fish special.
I've been getting familiar with Control Catering as part of my role in the Front of House Team at The Cottage Hotel. The program is multifaceted, and is a great source of information. It has really helped as a point of reference when there are questions from customers about the ingredients used, and possible allergens present.
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