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This page contains a brief description of WinCLD and its functions. The system was developed by a restaurant owner, for restaurant owners. It is user-friendly, and was specifically designed to be easy to install and program by restaurant personnel. Table of Contents:
Click here to view the online User's Manual with actual screen examples. Click here to view the online Installation Manual.
What is the Cabinet Level Display?:
The Cabinet Level Display helps restaurant managers improve customer service, reduce waste, and improve quality. How does it do this? It keeps track of what you sell, and when you sell it. With that information, it can tell the managers and crew what products they need at any particular time of day. This includes holding cabinet items, thawed items, fries, and even stock items. It eliminates a huge amount of manual calculations for the managers. It is like recalculating your bin/prep level charts every 5 minutes! Ask any veteran counter person, and they can tell you when a regular customer will arrive and what they will buy. Furthermore, customers tend to buy more products at certain times of the day than other times. For example, you sell more large sandwiches during lunch than at 2:00 in the afternoon. If you average the day's needs over the entire day, you will always run out during lunch. The key is to track not only what you sell, but how many, and when. With WinCLD, a personal computer is installed either in the grill area or in the office. A VGA screen is mounted in your kitchen, accessible to all kitchen personnel. Back to Top
Getting the Product Mix Information:PC-POS Registers: WinCLD is connected to an available PC-POS register COM port. WinCLD emulates a Kitchen Video System Monitor, so you can follow your POS programming manual to set up the POS system to send information to WinCLD. Panasonic 2+ Registers: WinCLD is connected just like a printer. Therefore, it can be connected directly to a register on the newer plastic registers. On older stainless steel registers, a printer interface box must be obtained from Panasonic. Once it is connected, you simply must configure the system to send pick lists for each order to this “printer”. Once connected, you can view the order data on WinCLD screen. As you watch, you will see register and order numbers tracked. This means WinCLD is learning your menu item names, and counting how many of them you sell. WinCLD saves this information for 1000 days, and has room for 1000 menu items. Back to TopCalculating Levels:Since WinCLD knows what you sell during every 5-minute period of the day, it can tell you what you will probably sell during the next 15, 20, or 30 minutes. As an example, suppose it is now 11:47 and you want to see how many meat patties you need in the cabinet. If they have a holding time of 20 minutes, WinCLD looks at how many patties you normally sell during the periods ending at 11:55, 12:00, 12:05, and 12:10. It adds them up, and displays the total as a build-to. It will be displayed as pieces or trays, depending on how many you need. You can choose to base your calculations on the previous week, the average of the last 2 weeks, or even average 3 specific dates within the last 1000 days. Most of the time, though, you will want WinCLD to read in the information from the last 3 weeks and analyze the trend. Sometimes the manager may want to see where the numbers are coming from. Pressing the [ / ] key will display the amount of an item sold during each of the last 3 weeks, so you can see if the sales are increasing or decreasing. The numbers appear in yellow, above each cabinet level. Back to TopManual Adjustments:There are times when you will want to adjust the cabinet levels displayed. At the start of a fish promotion, for example, you might want to adjust your fish patties by 200%, and adjust your meat patties by 80%. You only have to do this for the first day, though, because for the rest of the week you can pull from "yesterday". Is today a special day? Is there a festival in town? How about a blizzard? In those cases, you can globally increase or decrease all cabinet levels from 5% to 995% by pressing the + and - keys. These adjustments appear on the screen in yellow as percents, such as “200%”. Back to TopAutomatic Adjustments:The system also has the ability to adjust for what is currently selling. For example, if you are selling more of a product than usual, WinCLD will adjust its levels to reflect what is actually selling. In order to avoid over-producing, these temporary adjustments will disappear if sales go back to normal. This feature not only helps during buses, it builds credibility with the crew. These adjustments appear on the screen in yellow with plus signs, such as “+2”. This means the level shown in 2 greater than what you normally would need at this time of day. Back to TopSimple Programming:The system is very powerful, but programming it is much simpler than creating a paper chart. Connect the full-size keyboard (included) to the connector conveniently located at WinCLD screen. Then, follow the menus and the screen images in this manual to program the system. If you have more than one store with identical menu item names, you can copy the information onto a diskette and copy it to additional restaurants. This option is located on the Utilities menu. Back to TopSpecial Considerations:If you change the 14-character menu item name on your POS, remember that it will change for WinCLD too. For example, if you change your hamburger from HAMBURGER to HAMBURG, WinCLD thinks it's an entirely different product. The system is successfully being used in 24-hour restaurants. Just keep in mind that the day starts and begins at 4:00 AM. As the time approaches 4:00, the system will only tell you what you need in the cabinets between now and 4:00. At 4:00, operation will resume to normal. Back to Top
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