School catering management is about much more than menus and meal orders. Behind every meal served is a complex operation involving suppliers, recipes, allergens, stock, costs, food safety, health and safety and compliance. So, while there are plenty of catering management systems available, what really matters is how much of that operation they can bring together.
That’s where our Litmus Edge platform stands apart.
Rather than focusing solely on managing the catering service, Litmus Edge brings catering management, kitchen operations and compliance together in one connected platform.
More than menus and meal orders
Of course, Edge covers all the core functions you’d expect from a modern catering management system.
It supports menu planning, parent and teacher ordering, EPOS integration, stock taking, waste reporting and daily meals reporting. But it’s what sits around those core functions that makes it different.
Compliance built into catering management
With Litmus Edge, compliance is built into the way the system works.
School Food Standards compliance is automated, helping catering teams check menus as they plan them, while recipe-linked allergen and nutritional information provides greater visibility and control.
Edge also supports automated PPDS labelling, helping teams manage allergen information and labelling requirements more efficiently.
And because recipes can be linked to supplier and pricing information, catering teams can consider compliance, ingredients and cost together, rather than managing these areas separately.
Supporting a safer, more compliant kitchen
In addition, Edge includes food safety reporting, supporting food preparation, storage and HACCP recording, alongside health and safety reporting, including COSHH and compliance management.
There’s also a centralised document library for important kitchen, compliance and training documentation.
So instead of relying on a collection of spreadsheets, paper records, documents and separate systems, key information can be managed and accessed in one place.
The whole operation, not just the catering service
For school catering teams that manage their catering in-house, this joined-up approach can make a real difference.
Menus connect with recipes. Recipes connect with allergens, nutritional information, suppliers and pricing. Orders connect with meals, while stock and waste information help provide greater visibility of costs and performance. And food safety, health and safety and compliance sit alongside the day-to-day management of the catering operation.
For schools and trusts, choosing a catering management system shouldn’t just be about whether it can build a menu or process an order. It’s about whether it can support the whole operation behind the meal.
Find out more about Litmus Edge here and learning how it can help your school catering operation operate seamlessly.
The Litmus team
