FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
George Kotcher, President
Barrington Software Incorporated
(847) 487-7020
(847) 487-0808 (home phone)
Barrington Software - CookenPro® Commercial Now Available with a Sales Module
BARRINGTON, ILLINOIS – April 5, 2004 – “Food industry providers can now capture and apply Point of Sale information from most POS Hardware without spending a fortune” said George Kotcher, President and CEO of Barrington Software Incorporated. Mr. Kotcher went on to say “Providers are faced with a myriad of POS choices. What is done with the information varies. Some have quite a good capability, some a mediocre capability, and some have no capability at all. The Sales Module makes any choice a good one”.
The Sales Module is competitively priced at $99.95 and can be downloaded when purchased. It not only captures financial information that any POS terminal provides, but also allows easy entry of information from till tapes produced by old-fashioned cash registers. Both types of capture are used to manage inventory counts, provide food costs as a percent of sales, and recommend menu prices, if the provider retails food items.
Barrington Software makes use of easy to use Wizards to allow an end user to specify the structure of information contained in text files to be imported into CookenPro®. Wizards of this type are not new to software, but they are not in wide spread use, if in use at all, in the food and food service industries. The wizards themselves together with the ability to receive a specification from another desktop make it possible for CookenPro® to understand and apply information from a broad variety of sources without additional expensive programming. In addition to the POS Wizard, CookenPro® also maintains an Inventory Wizard that allows import of any vendor’s Order Guide of products, if that vendor is able to supply it in a text file.
The sales module also provides tools for determining menu prices by different methods. One type of method is based on calculation of the contribution or margin that a food item should make to profit and the other type makes use of actual sales figures to rank menu items. This latter is referred to as Menu Engineering. Each item is assigned to one of the four categories: Stars (popular and profitable), Plow Horses (popular but not as profitable), Puzzles (not popular but highly profitable), and Dogs (neither popular or profitable). The first type of method is used to recommend prices and the second to measure the affect of the recommendations.
CookenProâ Commercial is a food management system that has broad appeal to the Food Services industry. It is suitable for restaurants, catering organizations, food service operations, residential facilities, correctional facilities, non-profit charitable organizations, grocery stores, delis, convenience stores, and school and other cafeterias.
CookenPro® desktop runs under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP. Network implementation requires only shared access to a folder on a computer with any of these operating systems.
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Barrington Software Incorporated is dedicated to development of a high quality, cost-effective, integrated product line. The goal of the company is to design and produce cost-effective, complimentary, commercial culinary software products with extensive functionality and an ease of use. Visit the website at www.cooken.com or call 1-888-394-0047 for more information.
Barrington Software Incorporated will be demonstrating the software at the National Restaurant Association Show May 22 – 25 at McCormick Place in Chicago. We will be in Booth 5779, North Hall Level Three, near the Technology Pavilion.