WILBRAHAM Mass. Friendly Ice Cream Corp., based here, an ice cream manufacturer and operator and franchisor of the 505-unit Friendly's Ice Cream restaurant chain, will use Altametrics' Inventory Management software at its 300 or so company locations.
"Altametrics will deliver actionable data to our managers regarding food cost and waste on individual products; provide our managers with daily guidance on food prep and thawing; and provide our manufacturing and distribution divisions with important data upon which to make long-range decisions and increase efficiency for our deliveries," said Richard Del Valle, FICC director of restaurant systems support. "In addition, we expect to reduce the amount of time our managers spend taking inventories, preparing food orders and planning prep schedules, which will give them more time in front of our guests in our restaurants."
Officials of Los Alamitos, Calif.-based Altametrics said the inventory management application is part of the company's suite of Web-based enterprise business products. They said the software, among other things, can be used to centralize ingredient and recipe management, determine real-time product variance, create warning messages, establish a user audit trail, transfer product between locations and record waste.