![]() ![]() As caterers ourselves we went through the same struggle. A literal paper trail you could follow from home, to the office, to the store, to the event. ![]() How about carrying around a call sheet or contact book with your staff’s phone numbers and information? Yes, that used to be the life of a caterer. The use of the cloud has made life on the go as a business owner convenient and easy, especially for those of us whose job has always consisted of a few days out of the office, or kitchen in our case.Ĭatering friends, raise your hands if you can remember a time when you had to bring all paper copies of your menus and function details to events. If you’re a fan of Apple or Google products, you’ve seen the cloud at work with your photos, notes, and apps. The cloud is a way for you to access files from anywhere across multiple devices. If you’re not as familiar with the concept of cloud computing, or “the cloud” as it is often referred to, we’ll give you a quick tutorial. Since cloud computing was introduced, businesses have been soaring with making themselves mobile. They’re said to have their “head in the clouds.” Well, the clouds aren’t such a bad place to be if you are a business owner on the go. they care - a lot.There is a saying for people who daydream. The learning curve here is quite steep for the uninitiated.īut. Not that it's just for enterprise level clients, but, hospitality professionals. There, I said it, this is a professional level program. This program came easy to me, it all made sense from a Culinary perspective and the types of information required to utilize the program to its fullest were familiar to me. this reads too good to be true, and in fact, there is one thing that needs to be cleared up. I could have designed a database in MS Access, or continued in Excel - but why? My results would not have produced the package that TPP offers. ![]() TPP assists me to be a better business person. Are your skills being utilized in the right facet? I'm a chef, not an event planner and certainly not an accountant. How much are you losing when you forget to add a detail to an order and have to take it at a How much are you spending in repairing your credibility with clients, when you miss a detail? evaluate how much the software costs, and look at your business and determine if you can afford it - it's not cheap. Without Total Party Planner to take away the headaches of searching for pricing, building proposals, databasing clients and providing seamless continuity for all of our communication, we wouldn't be able to grow like we have. Why do you need to know this? It gives you context for this review. Add to that, I'm no slouch on the computer and can code in Excel like it's second nature. That doesn't include six figures per year in take-out and six figures in Catering now a year later. We staff 40 plus people for a 15 table full-service restaurant that turns 10 to 11 times a day from Thursday to Sunday - every week. I'm in my 30th year of cooking for a living, and at the age of 43 own one of the top restaurants in my industry category in our Province. you assume that I'm a newbie, and that's sweet. ![]() I was stressed to the max, drowning in Excel Catering Event Order spreadsheets and missing catering pick-up orders and panicking my kitchen. My restaurant was running me, requests for catering were pouring in and we had just put our catering food truck on the road. ![]()
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