With the mayhem of March basketball fast-breaking toward your front door, there comes a deluge of seatings, orders, and bar sales, amid a rush on your inventory. And that’s a crazy good thing!
Combine knockout hoops with glorious patio weather and the upcoming big soccer tournament; there is a lot of traffic to prepare for — no matter if you have a TV or food is your sole focus.
You’re probably looking for solutions that make the busy season just a little more manageable: simplifying your workflow, saving time, and ultimately controlling costs. With an online ordering system that always puts you first, spring service will feel slightly less insane.
Inventory Your Way
After the opening basketball weekend, you’ve run through your entire bench of wings, Bacio® Pizza Cheese, and margarita mix. It’s time to revisit that playbook and see what kind of delicious adjustments are needed.
Logging on to CustomerFirst®, the approachable, convenient ordering platform from Performance Foodservice®, you can take inventory your way with a few clicks. Log and track inventory by unit, location, even product category, to maintain a real-time understanding of what’s in your walk-in cooler or dry storage.
Easily set your preferred stock levels, so your team knows what to keep on hand, and track your usage. In the past, maybe you’ve run out of ingredients for St. Paddy’s Day Ridgecrest® Loaded Pulled Pork Fries — never again boyo! — and you want to set up smart orders that auto-generate, minimizing guesswork and ensuring you’re always stocked. Through CustomerFirst, you can also get clear insights that provide storage and nutritional details at a glance. Now you’re feeling inventory confident!
Profit Pantry
Emerging thawed and hungry from winter’s chill, big crowds are expected throughout the month and beyond — and you want to play around with some menu items that’ll catch their attention. You’re considering shareables like Mashed Potato Croquettes with a Cranberry Aioli dipping sauce or the street-food fusion of Chicken Katsu Tacos, but you aren’t sure about the cost or menu fit.
Click on the CustomerFirst recipe dashboard and experiment with recipes, aided by cost analysis reports. Manage ingredients, prompted by your most-purchased items for cross-utilization. Explore menu planners that connect directly to your order history.
Toward the bottom of the dashboard, you’ll find the profit pantry — a tool to help adjust costs, edit menu prices, and utilize “what if” analyses to project profits and find the necessary balance in your business. Smart menu engineering has a direct correlation to increased sales, profits, and cash flow. Use the data, that’s always private, even if you don’t immediately order items and deploy it to help train your team with menu suggestions and upselling opportunities.
Order with Ease
You’ve crunched the numbers, put together a gameplan, and coached up your team — the consumer full-court press brings challenges, but it’s really your time to thrive! Use CustomerFirst to order from your desktop, tablet, mobile device, or in close consultation with your trusted Performance representative.
Start a new order anytime, edit open orders, and manage orders across multiple locations from one account. Replace unavailable items instantly with the Find Similar tool. Within CustomerFirst, you can receive unusual quantity alerts based on your order history to help ensure accuracy.
Did you forget Rejuv® Orange Juice for those basketball-and-brunch Rejuv Mimosas that fill guests with liquid courage at the jump of the action? Leave off a couple cases of hand-cut steaks for your Surety® Beef Ribeye alla Fiorentina LTO? The Did You Forget carousel provides reminders to help you index a comprehensive, accurate cart, along with a swipe-friendly mobile interface that speeds up your process while on-the-go.
From breakfast through late night eats (hello daylight saving time!), there are never enough minutes to catch your breath in March, let alone stay on top of all your cost considerations. But whether you’re chatting with guests on the floor, sweating in the kitchen with your team, or on-the-move, CustomerFirst helps you seamlessly put your plan in place — always putting you first.