Introduction > Program overview

Resort Bistro is designed to be an industrial strength recipe management application aimed at professional and student chefs and other food-service professionals.

The program maintains a database of ingredients and recipes to perform a range of recipe costing and menu engineering calculations.

Resort Bistro is a great tool to aid you in maintaining your recipes and menus as well as also providing you with accurate, up to the minute, recipe costings. To achieve the best results with Resort Bistro it is important to keep the following in mind:

•Update your ingredient costs regularly. This gives Resort Bistro the information it needs to calculate your recipe/menu costs.

•Review your recipe costs regularly - particularly retail products. Catch any potential loss makers before they become a problem.

•Use the menu engineering facility to determine which menu items are generating the best returns. See the topic on How menu engineering works.