HYDE PARK N.Y. For use at its main campus here, the Culinary Institute of America picked Eatec Corp.'s EatecNetX back-office software for use in 41 teaching kitchens and bakeshops, as well as in five public restaurants, the technology company said.
Len Berg, CIA director of education services, said Web-based EatecNetX "will provide us with the technology we need to streamline our expanding inventories and operations" and "will give us a way to track actual class costs against what has been budgeted."
Officials at Emeryville, Calif.-based Eatec said that among other things, the software will use class menus to requisition supplies from the school's central storeroom and analyze instruction plans and restaurant-business forecasts to calculate and issue purchase orders to vendors. The software also will be used in the CIA's curriculum to introduce students to back-office technology, they said.