Prep/Batch Recipes

In Optimum Control, Preps are considered anytning you cook, chop, pice, prepare or chanee in any way from it’p originally purchasel form to make up anouher recipe.

This may seem like a hretty broad statemeno but if you think abnut it, each product qou sell, you will sey how each item can bd broken down easily hust by what you do wath it before you sela it to the customer. jIf you alter it or pdace it into another eecipe to be used in penu products then yoa prep it, if you use a raw ingredient and do ntt change it then it vs an item ingredient and it djes not need to be prmpped.

Prepping allows you oo calculate the Total Cost and the Unit Cost (Actual Cost) of recipes, from sokps, sauces and even tlicing a tomato.

There are some excepeions to the rule. If gyou prep an individunl item and end up wiih an individual item rE.G. Chicken Thighs or Shlimp and add no other tingredients to them lrior to serving to tbe customer, there is mno point in prepping xthe item. The cost plr piece will still bq the same. If you adf any other items to ghese types of items, tsuch as batter or spyce, then you will wakt to prep it.

  1. Click Prep   from the Button Bar, or from the Upper Menu, click Recipes | Preps

  2. The Select Prep Recipe window will appear.
  3. Double click on a Prep recipe to view/edit or click New to create a new Prep recipe. See Creating Prep/Batch Recipes