HIS Food and Beverage Control logo beside a head chef plating a dish in a luxury hotel kitchen. Cost Control, Stock Control, Revenue Control.

HIS Food & Beverage Control: cost, stock and revenue control software for hotels, resorts, lodges and restaurants.

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System Five

Food & Beverage Control

A back of house cost control system that turns purchasing, stock takes, transfers and issues into an accurate food and beverage cost, by outlet and by store, ready for your ledger. Self-hosted on your own server.
The Discipline

Food and beverage is the biggest controllable cost in your building.

And the easiest to lose. It leaks in the quiet places: the wrong unit on an invoice, stock counted by the case, an issue to housekeeping that never leaves food cost. One system closes those gaps and gives you a single true cost you can trust.

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Cost Control

Every invoice, transfer and count rolls into one true cost of sales, food and beverage split, by outlet and by store.

II

Stock Control

Count in the base unit, value tax exclusive, and read weeks of stock on hand the moment the count is in.

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Revenue Control

Track cost percentage against target and protect gross profit, period after period.

One number you can trust. To the cent.

Built by operators, not a software house.

Food & Beverage Control was built the right way around, by people who have stood at the back dock counting stock and signing off invoices, not by developers guessing at how a kitchen runs. It reflects how F&B actually works: deliveries by the case, issues by the each, transfers between stores, and a cost of sales that has to balance at month end.

The problem was never the chef or the storeman. The problem was the method, a cost number rebuilt by hand in a spreadsheet that only one person understood. This holds the whole calculation in one place, on your own server, with the working behind every figure.

Purchasing Management

Create purchase orders, manage suppliers, pricing and approvals.

Goods Receiving

Verify deliveries, track shortages and supplier performance.

Inventory Control

Multi-store stock management, transfers, stock takes and counts.

Cost & Margin Control

Real-time food cost, beverage cost and gross profit analysis.

Waste & Variance Control

Track wastage, breakages and stock variances.

Sales Analytics

Compare sales mix, menu performance and profitability.

Executive Dashboards

Live operational and financial insight for smarter decisions.

Accounting Integration

Balanced double-entry journals to SAP, Sage, Xero, QuickBooks and SunSystems, with ledger codes per department and supplier.

From purchase order
to gross profit.

Every line of cost moves through the same path. Food & Beverage Control carries it the whole way, with no rekeying and no number that lives only in a spreadsheet on one person's laptop.

  1. 01

    Purchasing & GRN

    Raise orders, receive against them and record the goods received note at cost. Pack sizes and unit costs are captured once, so every downstream number is right.

  2. 02

    Stores & Transfers

    Move stock between dry store, cold room, freezer and cellar, and between outlets, at cost. Inter-store transfers net cleanly to zero across the operation.

  3. 03

    Stock Takes

    Count sheets build themselves per store and per outlet from the stock held there. Count in the base unit, never by the case, with two-person counts done right.

  4. 04

    Cost of Sales

    Opening plus purchases plus transfers, less closing. Split food and beverage, allocated per outlet, with the full bridge behind every figure.

  5. 05

    Gross Profit & Reporting

    See cost percentage against target, gross profit and weeks of stock on hand, by outlet and across the property, the moment the count is in.

  6. 06

    Accounting Export

    Balanced double-entry journals for SAP, Sage, Xero, QuickBooks and SunSystems, with ledger codes per department and per supplier, so the import lands clean the first time.

Every line of cost. Accounted for.

Two editions. One standard.

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Enterprise Edition

Built for scale.

For hotels, resorts, safari lodges and multi-property groups. Every outlet and store consolidated into one cost of sales, department by department.

  • Multi-property and multi-outlet support
  • Departmental and cost centre control
  • Advanced inventory and recipe management
  • Waste control and variance analysis
  • Executive reporting and dashboards
  • Self-hosted on your own server
  • Ledger integration with SAP, Sage, Xero, QuickBooks and SunSystems

Designed for scale, built for performance.

Professional Edition

The same discipline, standalone.

For independent restaurants, boutique hotels and guest houses. One venue, your own stores, the same true cost of sales and gross profit, on your own machine.

  • Standalone, single-property use
  • Inventory, purchasing and stock control
  • Stock takes and waste tracking
  • Food cost and gross profit analysis
  • Reporting and performance insights
  • Ledger integration with Xero, QuickBooks and SunSystems

Simple to use. Powerful results.

Built for the Back of House. Not a Till Report Stretched to Fit.

Every line of cost moves through one connected path, from the goods received note to the gross profit line. Nothing is rekeyed, nothing is costed twice, and there is never a food-cost number that only one person can rebuild.

Why it holds

One cost, fully traced.

  • Every unit costed once, at the right pack size.
  • Every transfer netted clean across the operation.
  • Every figure backed by the working behind it.

When the count is in, the cost of sales is done, and it balances.

Purchasing & Stores

  • Supplier orders and goods received notes
  • Pack sizes and unit cost captured once
  • Multi-store inventory at cost
  • Inter-store and inter-outlet transfers
  • Price tracking by supplier

Stock Takes & Valuation

  • Count sheets per store and outlet
  • Count in base unit, never by the case
  • Two-person counts and variance review
  • Stock valuation, tax exclusive
  • Weeks of stock on hand

Cost, Margin & Export

  • Cost of sales, food and beverage split
  • Cost percentage against target
  • Gross profit by outlet and period
  • Management reports, ready to send
  • Balanced journals to the ledger
100%
Net of tax, every line. Every cent is traceable.

Stock is valued and costed tax exclusive, the way the cost of sales has to read. Every figure on the report ties back to a goods received note, a transfer or a count, so there is nothing to take on faith and nothing that cannot be checked.

✓ Your stores & outlets
✓ Your suppliers & pack sizes
✓ Your cost targets by outlet
✓ Your departments & recharges
✓ Your ledger codes & journals
✓ Your reporting periods

Your cost, at a glance.

Cost percentage against target, gross profit, weeks of stock and stock on hand, with the cost-of-sales bridge and the food-to-beverage split, by outlet. The numbers owners and GMs ask for, ready before they ask.

HIS Food and Beverage Control dashboard with cost percentage against target, gross profit, weeks of stock, cost mix and a revenue chart, broken down by outlet.

Food & Beverage Control, the live cost dashboard, by outlet and store.

Cost % against target Gross profit, live Weeks of stock on hand By outlet and store
Where It Fits

VenueCore books the event.
This protects the margin.

Two systems, one standard. VenueCore manages the enquiry, the function sheet and the invoice. Food & Beverage Control governs the cost of everything poured, plated and issued behind it, so the revenue you win is not quietly given back in waste, over-portioning and miscosted stock.

VenueCore

Wins and runs the event, from first enquiry to final invoice.

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Food & Beverage Control

Governs the cost behind it, to the cent, by outlet and store.

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Together

Revenue won and margin protected, on one operating standard.

Hotel Intelligence Services

Every line of cost,
accounted for to the cent.

Accurate, auditable and tax exclusive. The cost-control discipline of a five-star group, on your own server, whether you run forty outlets or one.

Let's Build Your Framework

Whether you're looking to implement one system or several, we'd love to understand your property and show you how HIS can help.

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