Ctuit Software, Inc.Newsletter

Summer 2014

  What's New with RADAR


Payroll Validation
This new module, included with RADAR's base polling package, is designed to help identify potential mistakes with employee pay checks before they're processed. This highly configurable tool allows for the customization of validation rules that will allow you to save time, money and ensure your historical labor numbers are correct. Features include: 
- Check for employees who have forgotten to clock out

- Confirm pay rate is at or above minimum wage

- Track shift length, hours, and number of days worked

- Evaluate an employee's declared tip percent vs. sales

 

 

Scheduling
Our employee scheduling module has been updated with 2 new features.
-Overtime hours and wages can now be automatically calculated for upcoming schedules.
-Breaks can be incorporated into each shift
 
Safe Counts
Safe Counts allows you to enter safe balance information by location. The automatic calculations on this page make cash accountability simple, reliable, and less vulnerable to user error. You can also add safe count notes for a specific weekday and print a report of your safe count information directly from this page.

New Clients

Ctuit welcomes the following new clients to our family:



Xenia Hospitality - "Xenia" is the Greek word for "hospitality or generosity" a "welcoming relationship between host and guest". When Stratos Lambos and Angelo Kaltsounis, both sons of restauranteurs, met while attending the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y, they found they shared the same vision for creating a successful and renowned restaurant company. Today their Xenia Hospitality, in Charlotte, NC, offers four very unique dining concepts. Ilios Noche, a Greek and Italian mingled theme, offers an open, sophisticated, yet casual atmosphere. The Big View Restaurant and Bar is a casual culinary experience supporting local farmers, family and fresh fare daily. Nolen Kitchen continues to offer an eclectic selection of contemporary fare in a fresh, continental atmosphere. And Maverick Rock-Taco is Charlotte's favorite rock'n taco spot.

 

         

 

Stella's "farm to pizza" concept in Texas is centered on farm to table food practices and the development of strong partnerships with local growers, ranchers and purveyors. The star of Stella's menu is Texas-sourced artisan wood-fired pizza baked in an Italian Modena oven using oak and pecan wood. Shared plates, house-made cheeses, fresh salads and comfort foods made with locally-sourced ingredients are also found on the seasonal menu.   

 

Halcyon (Hal-see-yon): adj - Peaceful, Carefree, Untroubled, Prosperous is a coffeehouse by day and a bar & lounge by night where you can always relax and find your own personal "halcyon". Located in Austin, Halcyon's signature dishes include a chocolate espresso martini, grilled panninis, banana fosters crepes and tableside s'mores.
 
Genuine Roadside serves classic American roadside fare with kicked up flavors, Texas flair and global ingredient twists. This Gotham West Market eatery has a playful retro vibe serving their classic Pulled Pork Sandwich, Super, Duper Stack Burger, Spicy Smokehouse, Buttermilk Battered Chicken Sandwich and more.  

 

  Client Service News 


Maximize your investment by utilizing free training videos, webinars and documents to provide in-depth knowledge to your new and existing users!

Ongoing Training 
Ctuit continues to offer ongoing training through Training Webinars, Videos and Help Files accessible through the Training Tab in the upper left corner of your database.

 

Spotlight Webinars   
In addition to our general training Webinars, we also offer specialized Webinars that address industry hot topics and provide you with tools to better manage specific aspects of your business such as Fraud Management, Server Productivity and Labor Optimization.

 

Advanced Module Demos
Interested in learning more about our advanced modules? You can now watch Ctuit Advanced Module Demos, like GL Sales, Labor Scheduling and Event Management from the Training Video Tab!
 
 

 

Relay For Life

 

Ctuit has joined Relay For Life! Each year, more than 4 million people in over 20 countries raise much-needed funds and awareness to save lives from cancer through the Relay For Life movement.

 

Ctuit's team, Seeing to the End of Cancer (Team Ctuit), is dedicated to reaching our $10,000
donation goal by participating in the 24 hour Relay For Life of Novato on Saturday, July 26, 2014.
 
 
To learn more about Relay For Life or donate, with Ctuit matching up to the first $5,000 visit
 us here Or follow us on Facebook. 
 

   Events and News

Ctuit News

  • Read how VooDoo BBQ & Grill decreased their hourly labor costs 4-6% overall and reduced their company-wide food costs by 2%. They also cut the time spent on office work by 70-75%.  
  • Ctuit has been widely recognized in the press, recently featured in Food & Beverage Magazine, Hospitality Technology Magazine, and QSR Magazine.  
  • Ctuit launched an update to our popular mobile app, On The Fly, version 1.2. Updates include the addition of Trend and Product Mix charts, a Poll Status screen that includes the ability to schedule a repoll, and a Spanish language option. Update today at the App Store or Google Play  
  • The Plant Cafe has realized savings in Payroll and Operations. Read more
  • Get industry insight and tips from Ctuit Operations Specialists in our weekly blog.      
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   We are listening to you 


Each month, we receive dozens of feature requests. We work hard to accommodate your specific needs. Here are some recent feature requests we created. 
 
THE PROBLEM: Often employees are minors and are subject to specific labor restrictions.  There was no way to target minors in order to track their hours and shifts worked to verify compliance. 
THE CTUIT SOLUTION: A new global export has been created called "Hours Worked by Minors" that will provide supporting information for shifts worked by any employee under 18 within selected parameters.
 
THE PROBLEM: The "Vendor Purchase Summary report" is a valuable tool in controlling costs and it would be even more helpful to compare vendors, but the Step 3 filters did not provide a way to filter by specific vendors.
THE CTUIT SOLUTION: A Step 3 filter has been added to the Vendor Purchase Summary report selections in order to support filtering by specific vendors when running the report.


THE PROBLEM: On the Sales Trend Graph, the "Guests, Checks, Entr�e Counts Trend" and "Guests, Checks, Entr�e Averages Trend" reports, the only option for Dayparts or Revenue Centers was to make a single selection from a dropdown. There is no way to select multiple, or specific Dayparts or Revenue Centers.
THE CTUIT SOLUTION: The Dayparts and Revenue Center selection options for the three reports has been modified to become a multi-select checkbox list, allowing the user to include or exclude specific items.
 
THE PROBLEM: In the Accounts Payable module the Invoice Details screen has an option for "Save & New"; this was not an available option when working on the Purchase Order Details screen.
THE CTUIT SOLUTION: We added a button to offer the ability to choose "Save & New" when working with Purchase Order Details in order to streamline the process.

   Customer Spotlight

    

 
The Plant grew out of a desire to make it easy and affordable to eat delicious healthy local organic food. Their mission is to promote the well-being of people and planet, and provide an avenue to support healthy choices and sustainable practices. Everything they serve is made with exclusively 100% organic and local ingredients. The Plant's menu is diverse, comprised largely of contemporary California cuisine and Asian inspired flavors. Designed and built using some of the greenest materials, The Plant supports lowering emissions and climate change. 

With six locations in the Bay Area, The Plant also provides catering and hosts private events.
  
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