Planning, Purchasing, Producing, Presentation .

These four activity-packed words summarize the life-cycle of a successful catering business. Let one element get out of sync and you have debilitating mayhem on the menu.

To keep the gravitational pull of chaos under control, Vince Reinstein, Director of Operations for Fabulous Creations, an Atlanta based full-service catering company, utilizes streamlined organizational systems. Several software systems for tracking the planning, purchasing and production aspects of the business were investigated and rejected before In STORE came to Vince's attention.

" We wanted a system that would give us up-to-the-minute food costing combined with a vendor bidding system. Theoretical pricing is essential to profitable menu costing. The nature of our business is fast paced and demanding because each job is individual and tailored to the client's desires. The menu modeling of our recipes takes the guesswork out of my pricing process ." Vince further states, " We also wanted a software that could give us the complete cycle of business - from requisitions to purchase orders and receiving to location of inventory to built-in labor costs for prepared items. We also did not want to have to custom-build a system - no time to dedicate to an outside vendor to explain the intricacies of our industry. InSTORE fit our "menu of demands". We could tell that the programs were created by someone who was familiar with our type of business. It was as basic as install the software, get trained, and go with it ."

The implementation of InSTORE software has reduced the time spent on the "paperwork part" of running Fabulous Creations so that Vince has more time to tend to the clients. The extra attention to those customers has translated to a "higher calorie" bottom line.

InSTORE Systems through its' InSTORE software is pleased to have been instrumental in this company's "war on chaos" and in helping to fatten the balance sheet.