Litmus Edge

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The future of in-house kitchen management and food procurement.

Litmus Edge helps schools that operate their own food services.

Edge is a one-of-a-kind system designed to support schools who make the choice to self-deliver – helping them and their catering teams achieve increased quality, greater productivity, reduced costs, and improved value for money.

Delivering high quality, popular, healthy food, in a cost effective, safe and compliant manner, day-in-day-out, can be difficult to manage.

Edge simplifies the complexity

Schools can benefit from a host of features exclusive to the Edge system/platform, including:

  • Access to a more cost-effective food supply chain
  • A reduction in admin time spent on manual food compliance and allergen checking via its unique auto-allergen and food standards compliance linking   technology
  • Recipes using high quality, fresh ingredients that significantly increase the uptake of meals
  • Enhanced efficiency via industry-leading kitchen management tools

Our renowned network of specialist suppliers offer schools and Multi-Academy Trusts highly competitive pricing for fresh, quality ingredients and exceptional products and services.

  • Expertly negotiated prices
  • Real-time benchmarking
  • Automated price file maintenance
  • Comprehensive due diligence
  • Streamlined ordering
  • Consolidated invoicing

Edge provides a sector-specific supply chain that reduces procurement costs by up to 20%, unlocking essential funds to increase the value within your catering operation and spend on the plate.

Simplify menu and recipe management, and de-risk your school’s food service with our unique food safety, allergen, and compliance technology.

  • Automated School Food Standards compliant menu management
  • 2000+ recipes with supplier-linked allergen and nutritional information
  • Compliant pre-packaged for direct sale (PPDS) labelling
  • EHO food safety and management system
  • Full and up-to-date HACCP documentation

Edge eliminates time-consuming manual menu management and allergen checks, delivers operational compliance, and ensures the safety of your pupils and staff by reducing human error.

Designed using over 30 years of specialist education sector experience, to meet all the needs of a busy kitchen manager and to support the requirements of the complex school catering environment.

  • Simple, intuitive system operation
  • Real-time, end-to-end dashboard reporting
  • Simplified team, task and diary management
  • Single point of order and consolidating invoicing
  • Streamlined stock management and control
  • Built in waste recording and reporting
  • School and parent messaging service

Edge reduces the time spent on kitchen administration by 15 hours per month on average, giving catering teams the ability to focus on producing fantastic food and improving the dining experience.

Combining tailored menus with easily accessible pre-order and payment solutions to improve service, increase customer satisfaction, drive uptake and reduce waste.

  • Termly School Food Standards compliant menus
  • Theme day menus and promotions
  • Automated allergen and nutritional information, and labelling
  • Management Information System (MIS) and payment provider integration
  • Allergen-specific parent and classroom pre-ordering

Edge gives schools access to 2000+ recipes and a wide selection of carefully crafted menus, available for pre-order, and significantly reduces production and plate waste.

Give your school in-house catering the edge

Get in touch to hear how we can give your catering operations the edge.