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Kitchen Manager

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What is it?

The Pearson Kitchen Manager online database is a valuable resource for culinary students and professional chefs alike, featuring the full collection of recipes from On Cooking, Sixth Edition, the market-leading textbook. With more than 750 recipes and variations, Pearson Kitchen Manager allows cooks to truly maximize the value of their recipe content.

Key Features

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Recipe Library

  • More than 750 recipes and variations from the market-leading On Cooking, Sixth Edition.
  • Searchable by chapter, course, cuisine, and cooking method.
  • Finished, plated dishes for many recipes.

Recipe Tools

  • Print recipes.
  • Scale recipes by Yield Quantity, Yield Unit, and Number of Servings.
  • Do nutritional analysis.
  • Create shopping lists organized by category.
  • Customize any On Cooking recipe and save it to your own recipe book.

Recipe Costing

  • Real-world recipe cost analysis powered by an ingredient database containing cost, unit conversions, and yield % data.
  • Pearson Kitchen Manager calculates Total Recipe Cost and Cost per Serving.
  • Food Cost Percentage, Menu Price, and Gross Margin auto-calculate with entry in one field.
  • Change serving size within recipe costing window and see change to Cost Per Serving.

Recipe Format and Entry

  • Ability to enter recipe quantities as whole numbers, decimals, and fractions.
  • Ability to enter recipe quantities as compound units, such as pound / ounce and cup / tablespoon.
  • Protein fabrication sub-recipes link meat, poultry, seafood items’ recipe portions to whole item.

Menus

  • Easily add recipes to a new or existing menu.
  • Menu costing tools mirror the recipe costing tools.