Dining Service

The catering system automates the ordering and control of dispensing meals in canteens, schools or hospitals. It resolves restaurant, ordering and combined ways of catering. It allows for preparing the optimized menus in terms of costs and in terms of nutritional values of food. The online connection with the food store makes it possible to regulate the raw materials for cooking and to plan the stock level. The cash module offers opportunity to sell the additional assortment of different kinds in the dining room or cafeteria. Settlements of payments for the meals may be performed by automated transfer of the data into the payroll system. The meals change is part of the food ordering module and allows you to minimize losses caused due to not taking the food. The whole system is supplemented by a number of screen and printing reports that are appropriate to manage the catering operation. For the user’s comfort, the system of ordering is completed with possibility of communication via intranet or internet. In the case of the use of beverage and food vending machines, the data from these devices can be implemented into the catering system. The system version for the hospital patients catering is supplemented by a robust module of diets up to the level of individual diets. The catering system is designed for the most demanding users, but in its alternative modifications it will certainly satisfy even simple catering establishments.

Example of Application

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• Meals ordering and service using contactless identifiers
• Management of the boarder’s account
• Ordering food for several days in advance
• Archive menus
• Foods change
• Communication with beverage and meals vending machines
• Monitoring the nutritional values
• Standardization of raw materials consumption
• Planning the stock
• Automatic storage material issue slip with depreciation from stock cards
• Financial standards and price calculations for meals
• Control of subsidies in relation to attendance
• Catering operation management
• Data transfer to the payroll and the accounting system

Patient Dining Service

The catering system solves the problems of individual diets, which is especially suitable for hospital and spa dietary operations. The system allows for creation of any patient’s meal composition based on the exact nutrient requirements with the support of the tablet composition and food expedition. A normal diet composition for the approved diets provides a sufficient set of tablets and using their appropriate combination a completely new individual patient’s diet can be created. The system also allows you to monitor what the patient has actually eaten, and hence provide the additional nutrition. In this sense, the patient’s catering belongs without doubt to therapeutic processes and this process is controlled by dietetic specialists. Doctors or nutritional therapists, of course, cannot do now without support of the sophisticated computer system. Using Intranet in the communication between the hospital department and the dietary operation, it greatly simplifies the organization of the data transfer and brings the accuracy into the whole system with possibility of continuous and follow-up checks.

Software

SW Aktion Astris is a modular system consisting of the basic module and expansion modules. Its basis is a system core containing the database and catering system management (basic module). The add-on modules include a food ordering module, warehouse management module, standardization module, direct marketing module (electronic cash), intranet extension and patients catering module.

Boarders records                              Dispensing terminal SW                 Web interface Astris