Bon Appetit Software

Bon Appetit software from Pacific Triangle Software, Inc. provides a fully integrated food service management information system that includes:

Point of Sale

Integrates with the Free & Reduced Meal Application Module
Captures all required data at the point of service
Provides on-line student/customer history
Eliminates overt identification of student status
Assures only one reimbursable meal per student
Automates "meal edit check" audit requirements
Consolidates end-of-month reports
Allows security controlled access to selected options
Consolidates revenue and cash collection data for all serving lines
Identifies and records offer vs. serve meals
Automates end-of-day reporting for upload to central office
Provides pre-payment tracking and student billing
Flags a warning message when student/customer is about to exceed a pre-set credit limit
Allows roll-over of pre-paid balances during the end-of-year grade promotion process

Integrates with the Meal Accounting Module
Calculates student status
Maintains student or family applications
Generates personalized guardian notices
Provides customized verification selection criteria
Prints personalized parent verification notices in English and Spanish
Allows centralized or school-based processing
Generates student master school lists
Provides demographic data by district and school Processes state direct certification information

Interfaces with the Nutritional Analysis & Menu Planning Module
Integrates centralized and school-site inventory processing
Interfaces with food production system for demand-based ordering and purchase order creation
Interfaces with Vendor Bidding Module
Tracks issues from central warehouse to school sites, location to location and kitchen to production on a daily basis
Maintains perpetual vs. physical inventory variance
Provides minimum/maximum inventory level reporting
Maintains inventory cost history by item and vendor

"USDA Approved" Nutritional Analysis (Pre-loaded with USDA recipes)
Integrates completely with other Bon Appetit Software applications: Menu Planning, Inventory Processing and Vendor Bidding
Complies with NuMenu/Assisted NuMenu requirements
Analyzes up to 36 nutrients for any food item, recipe, or menu
Calculates and displays selected nutrients for any recipe or menu
Allows user to customize nutritional data for unique food items
Analyzes recipes and/or menus against the recommended daily allowances from the National Research Council
Adjusts total recipe values to account for changes in moisture and fat gain or loss during cooking
Supports multiple levels of analysis for menus
Allows customized RDA groupings

Interfaces with the Inventory Processing and the Vendor Bidding Modules
Allows Cost Analysis by pre-costing recipes and menus based on inventory currently in stock, current prices and/or FIFO.
Provides weighted analysis for offer vs. serve menu planning
Provides USDA recipe database
Allows user-defined recipe database
Projects food production requirements
Generates daily pull sheets/ingredients worksheet
Prints yield adjusted recipe

Transfer data between Central Office and schools
Menu planning
Inventory activity
End-of-Day reporting
Free lunch status
Meal counts
State and Federal reporting
Allows communication between various computer systems
Exchanges information with other systems: Student Administrative Systems, Financial Management Systems