A September 25 article in Nation’s Restaurant News by Alan Liddle touts a new SaaS service from MenuCalc that can be used to compute nutritional analysis of menu items. With an increasingly health conscious nation, nutritional analysis is rapidly moving to be a critical part of many restaurants. According to Dawn Saxton, co-founder and vice president of product development for the twenty-two unit Specialty’s Café & Bakery in San Francisco, “the beauty” of MenuCalc is that “it is Web-based and hosted”, meaning it is “software I don’t have to load” and “something I don’t have to own.”
It will be interesting to see how SaaS continues to infiltrate all aspects of a restaurant’s IT portfolio.
Whether it’s video for loss prevention or nutritional analysis for menu items, SaaS proves its value again and again.