Why choose Live-Kitchen.com?

• With 1,000,000+ meals processed in over 45 kitchens our software is proven to help you succeed.
  
  
• We release updates with new features several times a year to help you keep your competitive advantage.
  
  
• We value our client feedback! We use our experience and contacts in the industry combined with your feedback to make Live-Kitchen.com superior to other meal assembly software.
  
  
• Live-Kitchen.com integrates with Sysco, Constant Contact, ACT!, Microsoft Word and Excel.
  
  
• Live-Kitchen.com was built with Business Analytics in mind.
  
  

An Overview of the Live-Kitchen.com software system:

Live-Kitchen.com is simply a Web based meal assembly software system built from the ground up specifically for the meal assembly industry. The software has been enabling kitchens and serving customers since 2003. We've partnered with our clients to make sure that the software makes running your kitchen easier, not more difficult, and definitely more profitable.

Have a look at our feature list and you'll see that we've put in a lot of thought into what's available. The software changes dramatically over the years in order to keep you up to date and competitive. We also utilize AJAX and Web 2.0 technology to make sure Live-Kitchen.com is as easy to use for the kitchen staff as it is for your customers.

Summary of features:

Gift Certificate System
Full system including printable Gift Certificates and fulfillment company integration.

Side Dishes
Sell sides? or even if you don't! Setup suggested sides or offer up your own. We automatically suggest sides and portions based on the customer's order

Customer Referral System
Leverage your existing customer base, word of mouth is the easiest business to gain. Track results and provide incentives for referrals.

Promotional Codes
Offer promotions, whether it's free meals, dollars off, or even a percentage off. Control when and where a promo is used. This is a great ROI tracking tool.

Business class Reporting
Our reporting gives you insight into how your meal assembly business is doing. What is your most profitable session time? What are your most popular meals? How much is each kitchen is making in revenue monthly, quarterly, annually? What month's are your slow months? How are your meals fairing in the customer ratings? What do you need to prep for the day's sessions? The reports help you figure out what the trends are...they help you watch for red flags, and they ultimately help you gauge your success.

Advanced Session Management
Create a full month's worth of sessions in under two minutes! As well as customizing sessions to fit your business model.

Customer management
Identify customer ordering trends and activity. Export your customer data directly to ACT!

E-commerce system
Our Shopping cart / E-commerce system was built for Meal Assembly. Some features include: Volume Discounts, Organic upgrades, and much more.

Point of Sale
The point of sale system with integrated card swiper and receipt printer is so unique it's patent pending.

Private Party tools
Track Private party attendees and secure their sessions, not to mention allowing Hostesses to invite attendees right from their Member area.

Fundraiser Tracking tools
Track fundraisers such as School promotions, Girl Scouts, or any other fundraiser. Reporting tools automatically integrate with promotional codes to show you and the organization how much they've earned.

Reminder email
Our servers automatically remind customers of upcoming sessions (including directions or a map). Not to mention, we track when they will be running out of meals and we send out the new menu with a quick order link. Keep the revenue coming in!

Inventory Management
Manage individual ingredients, order guides, and more. Import a full Sysco truck of food in under five minutes. As customers order meals, we know what needs to be deducted from inventory and can automatically synchronize your inventory.

Menu Management
Advanced menu management allows you to customize which locations offer which meals and when. Have a shortage of a certain item in Texas? Can't get an ingredient in North Carolina? No problem for Live-Kitchen.com!

User level security
Corporate, Franchise Owner, and Kitchen staff permissions. Keep each person efficient by giving them access to only areas they need to work with.

Session prep report
Know what you need for a session ahead of time. Our total menu report will give your staff a list of what's required for each session - including portioning.

Customized customer menu
Check a few boxes and click print! Out comes a menu for each customer in that particular session. It has all of their details, meal orders, disclosure information, and additional details to help them and your staff.

Strategic Partnerships
We've partnered with other companies servicing the meal assembly industry. Therefore, we've integrated with Constant Contact email marketing to aid with your marketing efforts. We've integrated with eSysco, to allow for food order importing. Import the contents of a Sysco truck into your inventory tracking system in under five minutes! Not to mention additional integration with U.S. Foodservice, ACT!, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word.

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From the menus you can print out, to the inventory system, to the point of sale system, to the session reminder email, Live-Kitchen.com works in conjunction with your staff to provide a memorable and customized experience for your customers.