No one ever claimed that running a restaurant was easy. In fact, restaurants stand as one of the toughest businesses to run, with a full 60 percent of them out of business within five years of opening their doors, according to Dun & Bradstreet statistics.  Staying power obviously requires a great dining experience, but behind the scenes it requires good management practices, tenacity, and integrated technology that provides detailed performance reporting with affordable investment.

The Epicor for Hospitality and Entertainment solution is answering that call for many food service operations around the world, including small chains, multi-branded conglomerates, and restaurant operations in hotels. 

• Strong general ledger and equally capable sub-ledgers, along with multi-location inventory management.  
• Solutions to streamline processes, including allocations, purchasing, budgeting, workflow, and document management.
• Integration to most POS systems to manage the reconciliation of cash location-by-location and generate the requisite accounting transactions. 
• Robust  budgeting and forecasting applications allow the appropriate balance of top-down and bottom-up collaboration
• Automated allocation of central expenses is fast and easy for multi-site operations.
• Handles menu mix and recipes as well as inventory management to the ingredient level.
• Visibility to menu item profitability with costing for individual ingredients and rollups to menu items,
• Track campaigns for product promotions, new product rollouts, new locations and other events to determine campaign effectiveness.
• Browser-based tool for requisitioning incorporates  configurable workflow engine.

With award-winning integrated applications, Epicor for Hospitality and Entertainment is a powerful, flexible business system that’s just right for food and beverage operations to react quickly, streamline operations and maximize return on investment.