Overview

This is an innovative product that can bring a new dimension to the teaching of kitchen supervision and management. Produced by Leading Chefs and catering experts, and our own expert programmers working with The Advanced Telematics Department at Birmingham University, the KitMan System is already in use in the professional catering industry, and is used by leading National hotel groups, Independent operators and the Public sector. 

Now adapted for use in Catering education, KitMan offers the potential to give Students a real understanding of how Kitchens both large and small are supervised and managed, and how the many processes and functions involved integrate and depend on each other.

Menu planning? KitMan already has a database of over 2,500 dishes many with digital photographs and the Chef or Student can add to these or amend them for personal use.  KitMan will search its database given any parameter of cost, GP% required, food content (including allergenic ingredients) and other demands. Costing? KitMan has a live link to many National and Regional suppliers and enables your Student, Lecturer or Local suppliers to easily enter their own prices; all costing and forecasting (which KitMan also does) is both accurate and less time consuming, for example if the price of just 1 ingredient in a recipe changes, every dish containing that ingredient both on the existing database and those you enter yourself is re-costed.  Students who need special help in key numeracy skills will find working with numbers in KitMan realistic, interesting and less difficult. Health, safety, first aid, hygiene? The modules within KitMan cover everything the working Chef needs to know such as legislation, forms to be completed, records to be kept, are all in KitMan and are continuously updated by experts. Nutrition? The healthcare modules of KitMan guide on special diets, nutritional and calorific content.

There are many other functions performed by the KitMan System making it by far the most comprehensive and advanced system in use.

As we hope you appreciate, the KitMan System covers the various processes involved in this area in a way that students will find easy to relate to, showing the practical use and the need for the underpinning knowledge you teach,  allowing them to explore the various tasks and elements which comprise kitchen management in today's industry (for example where labour cost can be more than food cost and menus must be planned accordingly, where a Chef needs easy access not just to food costs, but to guidance on the many areas of legislation affecting their operation, and where understanding the impact of sales mix can mean the difference between profit and loss).

KitMan covers all these aspects and many more and will enable Lecturers to create many different types of assignments and projects. KitMan enables you to deliver learning using the same kind of software in use in some of the leading kitchens in the country by some of the UK's leading Chefs.

We have also developed a specific solution for internal requisitions for colleges that we call the KitMan Online. For more information please click here.