The current Resort Software product range is as follows:
•Resort Chef
•Resort Bistro
•Resort Restaurant and
•Resort Hotel
Many of the features in our products are common to all programs. Features like database compatibility, no database limits, etc. are common to each program and are all listed in the tables below. Listed below are the major differences between the programs.
Resort Chef
This program performs basic recipe costing calculations and can also generate market lists for menus. Resort Chef also has a unique HTML user interface which means that all information is displayed on screen in web pages and this makes the program very simple to use. Resort Chef does NOT perform any stocktaking functions.
Resort Bistro
Resort Bistro is the next step up from Resort Chef. The program performs more advanced recipe costing calculations than Resort Chef and also performs Menu Engineering calculations. These menu engineering calculations let you analyze the various products on your menus to see which are the hot performers and which products are not so profitable. As in Resort Chef, Resort Bistro also generates market lists for menus. The program also features a more powerful reporting system than Resort Chef, giving a much larger range of reports. Resort Bistro also includes a spell checker, which is not found in Resort Chef. Resort Bistro does NOT perform any stocktaking functions.
Resort Restaurant
Resort Restaurant takes Resort Bistro's entire feature list and adds function/banquet costing and stocktake/stock purchase functions. The function costing lets you cost a function/banquet and get total and per cover costs, prices, food cost percentages, etc. The program's stock management functions let you count stock for any number of stores. The program will generate stock totals reports along with cost of goods sold type reports to show the overall financial performance of your operation.
Resort Hotel
Resort Hotel takes all of Resort Restaurant's features and adds the ability to cost recipes for multiple outlets. This let you cost a recipe once and get different sales/profitability figures for selling the same product in different sales outlets. i.e. Cost a Club Sandwich once and sell it for different prices in your restaurant and room service and get different food cost percentages etc for the same product.
Students/Apprentices/Chefs
Students and apprentice chefs looking for a very simple and inexpensive recipe management program that will perform all of the standard food costing calculations (food cost percentage, gross profit, etc.),will find Resort Chef is ideal for their purposes.
If you need menu engineering functions as well as standard recipe costing, or you expect to be upgrading to higher-end Resort Software products in the future, you should consider starting with Resort Bistro. "Why?", we hear you ask. Because Resort Bistro implements a similar user-interface to that of our 'higher-end' products; Resort Restaurant and Resort Hotel. This user interface lends itself to more productive data entry than the Resort Chef user-interface and all future Resort Software products will be based on the 'look and feel' of Resort Bistro.
Restaurant Chefs and Managers
Resort Restaurant is the right choice for you. The program's recipe costing, menu engineering, function/banquet costing and stock management functions, make it perfect for restaurant chefs and managers. Combine Resort Restaurant with a good general accounting program and you have all the management software that you need for your restaurant.
Hotel Executive Chefs, Food & Beverage Managers/Analysts
Resort Hotel's recipe costing, menu engineering and function/banquet costing for multiple sales outlets, and the program's powerful stock management functions make it perfect for Executive Chefs and Food & Beverage Managers. The program's sales analysis tools and comprehensive reporting give you everything you need for any sized hotel.
Foodservice/Management Consultants
Many foodservice consultants use Resort Hotel to help manage their client's foodservice operations. Create a separate database for each client (importing/exporting common or shared ingredients and recipes between them). You can use the program's analysis tools like menu engineering, function/banquet costing, stock management and comprehensive reporting facilities to not only impress your clients, but to get the best possible financial results for their businesses.
Below is a product feature comparison table to show which programs contain various features.
