The catering/restaurant industry has very few tools to help them create/store recipes, plan menus and work out costings that can be shared with members of staff and other branches of a chain.
This talk would cover one solution to this, showing how WordPress has been used as an intranet for businesses in the restaurant/catering industry. Features include working as a tool to itemise ingredients, a stock take facility including the monetary value of stock, help plan and budget dishes and menus, work out costings for bulk recipes down to individual portions and include other factors such as VAT and a variable gross profit.
All of this has been set up using a combination of WordPress MU, custom plugins, custom post types, custom fields and a bespoke theme with all of the necessary maths functions built in. People should come to this if they are developers who are interested in how to take WordPress further than a standard brochure/blog website. There will be some knowledge of PHP, theme development, plugin development and jQuery assumed for this talk.
