FDH Makes First Appearance At Northern Restaurant And Bar Exhibition

 

Catering software specialist Fretwell-Downing Hospitality (FDH) is exhibiting for the first time at this year’s Northern Restaurant and Bar Show in Manchester .

 

The company will be showcasing its recipe management software, Saffron on stand 539.

 

Interest in the web-based software has leapt in recent months as restaurants and pubs look for greater support to not only help control costs and aid menu planning but also help prepare for future challenges including calorie counting on menus and allergen reporting.

 

Saffron’s modules are designed to be flexible enough to enable customers to select which aspects of recipe management are right for their business, with the option of bolting-on more functionality further down the line.

 

As well as providing a full breakdown of menu costs, Saffron has been developed further to analyse recipe ingredients against the food industry’s McCance and Widdowson database of nutritional values. The results can then be presented as a series of traffic lights denoting whether calories or food groups such as saturated fat or salt, are present in high, medium or low levels.

 

Another Saffron module flags up 15 potential food allergens, enabling caterers to inform customers when they’re ordering or mark the relevant dishes on their menus.

 

As Nigel Adams, FDH’s sales executive comments: “There is definitely a greater drive within the restaurant trade to improve business efficiency. This, together with the moves within the industry to encourage greater sharing of information to customers on allergens and calorie levels, has prompted companies to look increasingly at Saffron’s capabilities and flexibility.

 

“We are delighted to be exhibiting at the Northern Restaurant and Bar Show as a premier event for the region’s hospitality sector.”