About KitchenTools PCMS™
KitchenTools PCMS™
(PCMS is an acronym for "Professional Catering Management
Software") is a catering management program that was designed exclusively for the professional catering industry.
KitchenTools PCMS™
includes everything from maintaining information on
Customers and Vendors to creating Vendor Orders and Customer Invoices, to a carefully designed and tested label
printing feature that utilizes Seagull Scientific's Bartender
® Label Printing Software for use on
high-speed label printers. See
Seagull Scientific
for more information.
Why KitchenTools PCMS™?
Here are just a few reasons why we think choosing KitchenTools PCMS™ is a smart choice for your business:
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The KitchenTools Software, Inc. team has nearly 40 combined years of database programming experience.
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Several thousand hours have been invested in research and development in creating KitchenTools PCMS™ (including
the use of state-of-the-art tools designed and tested to run on Microsoft Windows systems).
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Our team has worked closely with Robert Watson and his company The Kitchen, Inc., a leader in the professional catering
industry, for over 15 years on their various software needs. They have played a significant role in bettering our
understanding of the industry, which has enabled us to design a highly specialized tool for professional catering houses.
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If you're planning on hiring someone to write a custom program for you, think again. Hiring someone to write a
quality custom program for you could cost you many, many times more depending on the features you include. In addition:
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With KitchenTools PCMS™ there is no need to go through the pain and anguish of finding a reliable & honest
programming company.
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With KitchenTools PCMS™ there is no need to train your programmer to learn your business or industry. We already
have a thorough understanding of most aspects of the professional catering industry.
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KitchenTools PCMS™ is based on the concepts in a proven tool that has been running in a high-end catering house for
several years.
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You should concentrate on sales and management – running your business, and spend less time figuring out menu item
profitability, vendor orders, etc. Let KitchenTools PCMS™ do the work for you!
The Development Team
KitchenTools Software, Inc. was founded by Michigan natives Keith Hicks and Bill Hicks. Together we have over 40 years of
experience in writing custom database software. Keith is a graduate of The University of Michigan with a degree in
Electrical Engineering and 20+ years of custom programming under his belt. Bill has a degree in computer science and has
spent over 25 years writing software and managing software developers.
How KitchenTools PCMS™ got started
The predecessor program to
KitchenTools PCMS™
was custom designed and
written by one of our team members for The Kitchen, Inc. That program proved to be very beneficial
(especially helping keep the business profitable during lean economic times). The impact of that program
on Bob's business, combined with a growing awareness that the industry was badly in need of new technology
to improve profitability, produce less waste and create some free time for their owners inspired the
developers to team up a few years ago to begin creating a new, far more sophisticated program specifically
designed to manage the operations of professional catering houses.
We feel that KitchenTools PCMS™ is the next step in state-of-the-art professional catering management
software. In most industries there are a great many businesses that don't take full advantage of what
computers can do for them, often tracking information in multiple systems that don't talk to each other,
performing manual calculations and record keeping, and relying almost exclusively on experience-based
intuition to make business decisions. The latter point often means that one or two owners or employees
are irreplaceable and usually over worked. Many such businesses operate in a very low-tech way that
makes running that business unpredictable, time consuming and not as profitable as possible. Being
skilled database developers and problem solvers combined with a very good understanding of the needs
of the professional catering industry, it was a natural choice to create this new application.
Mr. Watson is a leader in the industry. He is not only on the cutting edge of technology but also has
a great deal of experience from which to draw. Our 15+ year relationship with The Kitchen, Inc. has
helped KitchenTools Software, Inc. create a piece of software that significantly surpasses the capabilities
of its predecessor. KitchenTools PCMS™ is loaded with features including allowing you to create menu
item build-ups and customer menus, generate customizable customer invoices, calculate how much of each
supply is needed for the week and automate the printing of customized product labels via
Bartender by Seagull Scientific
(which must be purchased separately). This is all done in one sophisticated and
intuitive package. See the key features section of this website for more details.
Your next step
If you have questions or would like more information regarding the pricing or features of KitchenTools PCMS™,
please feel free to contact us via our online form, by phone at 248-875-7580 or by email at
sa***@**tchentoolssoftware.com.
The Future
Our goal is not only to write software that handles the needs of the industry in the best possible way but
also to provide our customers with all the tools necessary to understand how to integrate KitchenTools PCMS™
into their businesses. This includes things like fully integrated, searchable help, online FAQ and an
intuitive user interface.