MenuMagic Features

Quickly Create Customer Menus: Add recipes to a menu by searching your recipe database, using the customer's favorite recipe list, or importing from a previous menu. Scaling recipes in a menu is a cinch.
Create Organized Shopping Lists: Create shopping lists organized to fit your grocery store's layout, and with all the menu's recipe ingredients scaled appropriately.
Freezer, Refrigerator, Fresh Serve?: Added recipes automatically categorizes them as fresh serve, refrigerator, or freezer according to the recipe's storage requirements.
Remember Customer Preferences: MenuMagic will alert you when a recipe contains an ingredient on the customer's exclude list (allergies) or when a recipe's nutrition does not meet the customer's nutritional parameters (diet/medical).
Recipe Labels: Track and manage the number of recipe labels for each recipe. Print all the labels for the menu in a single report customized to include your company name.
Keep Service Costs Down: Quickly see changes to the menu's total cost when adding, deleting, or scaling recipes.
Generate Billing Statements: Easily attach itemized billing information for the menu and create a personalized customer billing statement.

No More Lost Recipes: Quickly sift through all of your recipes to find exactly what you need using MenuMagic's powerful search features.
Automatically Estimate Recipe Nutrition: Keep track of fat, calories, sodium, cholesterol , diet points and nutritional exchanges and more. MenuMagic has over 3400+ predefined ingredients with USDA nutritional information already entered. Recipe nutrition is automatically calculated for you.
Store Professional Information: Because MenuMagic was specifically designed for culinary professions, you can store information like client reheating instructions as well as storage type (fresh serve/ refrigerator/ freezer) for your recipes.
Customized Recipe Categories: Assign as many recipe categories as you want. MenuMagic comes predefined with over 20 categories (like vegan, kid-friendly, and dairy0free) or you can add your own.
Use Proven Recipes: For Personal Chefs who have participated in a Culinary Business Academy Personal Chef training program, MenuMagic comes with over 513 tested and proven personal chef recipes with client reheating instructions and nutritional analysis.
Recipe Costing: Use the recipe costing calculator and worksheet to help determine andstore recipe cost. Cost per serving and re-scaled costs are automatically calculated for you. The recipe-based costing method let's you quickly estimate recipe costs.

No More Client Folders: MenuMagic will keep track of just about everything you need for each client. Contact numbers, e-mail addresses, and unlimited space for any notes and other information you want to keep.
Remember Client Preferences: MenuMagic can keep track of a customer's favorite recipes, and excluded ingredients (allergies or dislikes). These preferences then assist you when planning a menu for the customer.
Track Nutritional Parameters: Because MenuMagic automatically calculates recipe nutrition, you can define customer nutritional parameters (guidelines) to help while menu planning.
Track Client Menu and Recipe History: View or print cost and charge history for clients. Review the history to fine tune your service charges and keep costs down.
See all the past recipes served to the client, how many times it has been prepared for them, and the last service date it was prepared for them.

Reports for Culinary Professionals: Print menu listings, client instructions, menu nutrition, and menu billing reports for your customers. Add your Chef information (company name, phone number, address, e-mail address, web site and company logo) to the report for a professional touch.
Recipe Labels: Perhaps one of the most tedious tasks of a Personal Chef is creating and printing labels. MenuMagic Personal Chef Software generates the correct number of labels for a menu, complete with client instructions.
Scaled Production Report: Print out a copy of every recipe used on a menu (scaled appropriately) to take with you when you cook.
Create Organized Shopping Lists: Shopping lists are organized by store section. You can modify, add, and rearrange these store sections to match your grocery store and zip through trips to the supermarket.

Integrated Backup: Your recipe and customer database is the lifeline for your culinary business. Use the easy integrated backup feature to make sure you never lose your data.
Learn Quickly with Tutorials: The extensive manual (both print and on line versions), take you through step-by-step on how to use every facet of the program. The in-program context-sensitive help gives you quick access to common questions and answers.

MenuMagic - Personal Chef Software