Project Overview

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Project Overview

• Sales Catering Software
• COMUS Restaurant Systems
• Shota Tanaka

Project Goals
Applications
Project Description
Demonstration Packages
Features Benefits
Technology
Competitive Analysis
Key Learning Points
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Project Goals

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• learn recent sales catering software
• knowing which sales catering software company
  is the best in the market
• knowing who is using these software

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Project Description

• Instructions
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• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Comus Banquet Catering software
• The function include.
• Electronic reservation management.
• Integration with inventory and accounting
  packages.
• Controls the banquet process from the first phone
  call to printing reports and settling the
• Final invoice.
• Detailed banquet planning including Event
  chronology, menu planning, general information,
  Special requirements, and contractual
  obligations.
• Reports include The banquet contract,
  setup/kitchen worksheets, banquet invoices,
  weekly schedules, and shopping list.

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Features Benefits

• Instructions
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• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Comus software runs on non-proprietary hardware,
  so you can create a system that satisfies both
  your physical requirements and budget.
• when a large order of supplies is needed because
  of an up coming banquet the software will
  automatically spike the inventory order for the
  appropriate amount.

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Feature Benefits, (Cont.)

• Comus all of the information from the POS system
  feeds the office functions such as the Accounting
  system the Payroll system, and Inventory. All in
  the background so you the restaurateur can save
  time and money by focusing your attention on
  other projects.

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Competitive Analysis

• Instructions
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• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Competitors
• Cater ware Inc.
• Visual One
• Strengths
• It's all seamlessly integrated into Accounting,
  and Inventory.
• Whatever the situation the Comus Banquet planning
  module can help bring order back in the
  restaurateurs hands.

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Competitive Analysis, (cont.)

• Weaknesses
• It might not be able to operate under Microsoft
  Windows
• It can not customize reports for each individual
  need

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Applications

• Instructions
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• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Hooters in Maryland / Pennsylvania
• Market Broiler in California
• These restaurants are using Comus POS system,
  but not Sales Catering software.

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Demonstration Packages

• Instructions
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• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• There is no demo for the banquet catering
  software on the website, the site only has a demo
  for the table service software. If you want to
  see the banquet catering demo, you need to call
  the company.

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Technology

• Instructions
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  working document icons as follows
• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Comus should have the "New Event Wizard" just
  like a Cater Ware Inc. is going to have in the
  future. This function automatically makes
  calculations for menu, rentals, beverages, labor,
  and taxation.
• Creating customized reports for individual users
  need

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Resources

• www.comus.com
• www.caterware.com
• www.ngsc.com/netscape/products.htm

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Key Learning Points

• Instructions
• Delete sample document icon and replace with
  working document icons as follows
• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• These are the three things that I learned from
  the completion of this project.
• How Sales Catering software works
• How the three companies are competing each other
• What the three software companies are featuring
  in their new market

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Key Learning Points, (cont.)

• How I met the Three Goals of this Project.
• I spent a time searching the related information
  from internet, and saw how the sale catering
  software companies are doing in order to achieve
  my three goals.
• I called Comus restaurant systems to get enough
  information for my project. Michelle Welleette
  in the company answered all my questions on the
  phone.