MenuPro

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MenuPro

• MenuPro - Menu Management System
• SoftCafe
• Tai Wu

Company Overview
MenuPro Sample
Project Goals
Competitive Analysis
Project Description
Applications
Features Benefits
Demonstration Package
Project Overview
Technology
MenuPros Goals
Resources
Users Overview
Key Learning Points
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Company Overview

• Founded in 1994, SoftCafe is the worldwide leader
  in software for creating menus on personal
  computers. The company offers several products
  and services for the hospitality industry, each
  designed with the mission of making it easier and
  more enjoyable for food service professionals to
  reduce operating costs and increase efficiency in
  the workplace.

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Project Goals

• 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

• To learn about MenuPro menu management system
  software
• To learn about MenuPros features benefits
• To learn about how MenuPro successfully help it
  clients to operate their facilities

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Project Description

• SoftCafe MenuPro menu design software gives you
  everything you need to easily create your own
  professional menus at a fraction of the cost of
  print shop menus. Whether you need daily specials
  or a dining room menu, MenuPro gives you quick,
  professional designs and artwork without the
  expense or hassle of using a graphic artist.
  MenuPro is easier to use than a word-processor.
  Its patent pending technology allows you to
  design a menu with a single-click giving you the
  designer look without the hard work. 

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3 of MenuPros Features

• 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

• Menu smart text alignment
• Allow more than one person access at the same
  time (MenuPro Network Only)
• Culinary spell-checker

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Why are these three Key Features important?

• No matter what menu style you choose MenuPro
  lines everything up. You can even fit your menu
  to any page with a single click.
• Spell check with a 100,000 English dictionary
  plus any of nine foreign language dictionaries
  including French, Italian, Spanish, German,
  Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, British English,
  and even a special Culinary Dictionary.
• lets 2 or more people share food items and menus
  at the same time over a network, making it easy
  for you and your staff to coordinate menu
  planning and menu changes within your
  organization.

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MenuPros 3 Major Benefits

• 1. MenuPro makes creating menus easier than
  ever.
• 2. MenuPro stores your food items in a database
  for quick and easy retrieval.
• 3. MenuPro saves you money because you won't need
  a graphic artist to do your layout.

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Project Overview

• MenuPro is the industry standard for creating
  in-house menus - from elegant to casual and
  everything in between. Easier than
  word-processing and faster than a print shop.
  Comes with over 100 professional menu styles,
  hundreds of food illustrations by top
  illustrators, over 50 True Type fonts and even a
  Culinary spell-checker. Used by thousands of food
  operations worldwide.

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MenuPros Goals

• More Profitable Menu
• reduce operating costs
• increase efficiency in the workplace

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Users Overview I

• 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

• MenuPro also allows you the flexibility that any
  one of your staff can prepare the daily specials
  or menu changes without help from you.
  Indispensable at 379!
• From Steven Acosta, epicurus.com, April 2000

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Users Overview II

• We found this program easy to install and easy
  to use. Estimated learning curve without cracking
  the slim user's manual 20 minutes. If you cheat
  and crack the manual, you can pare it to 15
  minutes."
• From Susan Grossbauer, RD Byting In, Dec. 95

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Users Overview III

• It is extremely easy to learn and use. .. One
  can change from a country western style to French
  cafe style with one stroke without ever having to
  worry about formatting.
• From H.G. Parsa, Ph.D. Journal of Restaurant
  and Foodservice Marketing, April 98

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MenuPro Example
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Competitive Analysis

• 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

• Competitors
• AllWebMenu
• MenuClub
• Strengths of MenuPro
• Allow more than one person access at the same
  time
• 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
• Weaknesses of MenuPro
• Not available for Mac version
• Require big memory space (114MB)

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Applications

• 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

• 2 of MenuPros clients Include
• Epicurus company
• www.epicurus.com
• Cornell University
• E-mail sha_hostline_at_cornell.eduPhone
  607-254-4503Fax [phone]

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Demonstration Packages

• 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

• There is a MenuPro tour on the website
• http//www.softcafe.com/mptutor1.htm
• From this demonstration tour, I have a concept
  about how to use MenuPro to create a manu.

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Technology

• 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

• Make MenuPro available for Mac version so that
  the graph appearance will be better.
• add more foreign languages characters such as
  Chinese and Japanese for attract more new
  clients.

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Resources

• Textbook chapter 8 Food and Beverage Management
  Applications.
• http//www.softcafe.com
• http//www.touchmenus.com
• http//www.comus.com
• http//www.allwebmenu.com
• http//www.menuclub.com

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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

• I learned how to use menu management system to
  help me create a menu.
• I learned about what MenuPro is is and what
  services it provide.
• I learned what features and benefits of MenuPro
  can provide to its clients.

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Discuss how you met the Three Goals of your
Project.

• By surfing Dons web site, I find that MenuPro is
  a menu development software.
• From MenuPros homepage, I find out that there
  are many features benefits of this software.
• By email and telephone to MenuPro and its clients
  I understand how MenuPro successfully help it
  clients to operate their facilities.