© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 1 Create Daily Prep Quick Start Guide Document Details Document #: 160_DPQS_260224 Release Version: 20.26.02.05 Version Release Date: February 2026 Overview Looking to plan faster, reduce waste, and help your Prep Cooks complete their daily tasks? This guide will help Net-Chef users get started with Daily Prep by showing how to use forecasted prep and current on-hand values to create both an accurate and efficient prep plan. Related User Group Permissions % Screen Name Control Name Description ID #s 33 NC-Daily Store Tasks Create Daily Prep Enables "Create Daily Prep" on the Production menu. [123][549] 33 NC-Daily Store Tasks Daily Prep Enables "Recent Daily Prep" on the Production menu. [123][473] 35 NC-Daily Prep Allow Finalize to make Avail Qty < 0.00 Allow users to finalize Daily Prep when one or more components have an insufficient quantity in inventory. This will also allow users to finalize a Prep transaction with negative quantities that makes a recipe's Available Quantity fall below 0.00. [220][474] 54 NC-Recipe Cost View Displays the Cost column in the Scale Recipes screen in Net-Chef. [232][402] Related Documentation • KSRG – Using Kitchen Sync Tablet: https://links.crunchtime.com/KSRG-UsingKitchenSyncTablet Download the latest version of this document here: https://links.crunchtime.com/NCQS-CreateDailyPrep … or scan the QR code to the left. Watch the video tutorials: NCP 101 - Introduction to Daily Prep NCP 102 - Print & Finalize Prep NCP 103 - Advanced Prep I NCP 104 - Advanced Prep II
© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 2 QUICKSTART GUIDE Net-Chef Create Daily Prep Getting Started A Prep Cook can access Daily Prep via Net -Chef or the prep -specific KitchenSync and Mobile App. The following steps will guide a user through creating Daily Prep transactions in Net-Chef. For more details on KitchenSync, go here: https://links.crunchtime.com/KSRG-UsingKitchenSyncTablet 1. From the Production menu, select Create Daily Prep. 2. Select the Daily Prep Date. 3. Always check Include Recommended Production = 0. Net-Chef calculates which recipes need to be produced based on how much is typically used. Checking this box will allow you to see all recipes, regardless of the calculation, in case you would like to overrule Net-Chef. 4. Enter a Description to help you find this Prep transaction at a later time. If you don’t enter a description, this field will update to today’s date. 5. Select Continue. (Continued) 2 3 4 1 5 Net-Chef > Production: Create Daily Prep 1 2 3 5 4 z Tip: Dayparts, Start Times, and Templates can be used to further specify the scope of your Daily Prep Transactions. • Daypart – Select a Daypart to specify what portion of the day you are prepping for. When a Daypart is selected, Net-Chef will calculate prep suggestions just for this period of time. • Start Time – Select a Start Time to indicate when prep for these recipes will begin. The recipe’s Prep Time and Shelf Life will be taken into consideration when calculating prep suggestions. • Template – Selecting a Template will narrow down the list of Recipes you see on the screen. Templates are very helpful if you often Prep different Recipes in the morning versus the afternoon.
© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 3 Net-Chef Create Daily Prep (Continued) Review and Finalize Daily Prep Here you can see what Net -Chef thinks you need to make. Review each Recipe and fill out the Actual Production column with how much a Prep Cook should make based on the projections. The basic formula for Recommended Prep is what you Need minus what you already Have. 6. Enter the Actual Production quantity of each Recipe you would like to prep. 7. Select Prep Sheet to print a physical copy of the prep plan. The “Planned Qty” column on the Prep Sheet will be automatically populated with the quantities from the “Actual Prod.” column. This helps the prep cook know what they should make for the day or shift. 8. Select Save and Close for now. You’ll complete the transaction after the actual prep is done. (Continued) Tip: Love the Net-Chef suggestions? The Use Recommended (->|) button in the Actual Prod column to populate this column with the “ Rec. Prod. For. Prep” quantities. Don’t worry, these quantities can be edited afterwards. 6 7 8 A Net-Chef > Production: Create Daily Prep > Continue 8 4 7 z 6 A
© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 4 Net-Chef Create Daily Prep (Continued) Review and Finalize Daily Prep (Continued) Once the actual prep is done, return to Net-Chef to complete the transaction. 9. Update the Actual Production column with the amount of each recipe that was actually prepped by the prep cook. If they prepped exactly as much as planned then you can skip this step. 10. Select Finalize and Close to complete your Daily Prep. At this time, all prepped recipes are added to inventory, and the components of those recipes are removed from inventory. That’s the basics of Daily Prep! You can stop reading here, or continue reading to learn a few advanced tools that can make prep faster and more accurate. 9 Daily Prep Review: If this preference is enabled for the Location, users will be required to review a Daily Prep transaction before finalizing it. The Finalize buttons will be replaced with a Review button. This helps ensure accurate component depletion and recipe costing. 10 Net-Chef > Production: Create Daily Prep > Continue 9 10
© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 5 QUICKSTART GUIDE Net-Chef Advanced Daily Prep Overview This section will highlight some additional Daily Prep features that allow you to anticipate daily trends, scale recipes for production, and ensure you have everything you need on hand before you get started. Daypart • Select Daypart to see the average historical consumption of each prep recipe for one day, broken down by daypart. This allows you to determine the relative demand of each recipe throughout the day. The historical consumption is determined by taking the average consumption of these recipes (based on Menu Mix depletion) for the corresponding week’s day at this location. (Continued) A Setup Note: The dates referenced when calculating historical consumption may be from recent post periods, from the same time last year, or a combination of both, depending on the location’s “Historical Driven By” Recommended Order setting. Net-Chef > Production: Create Daily Prep > Continue A
© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 6 Net-Chef Advanced Daily Prep (Continued) Projected Consumption • Select Projected Consumption to see how much of each recipe you’re expected to use for the selected day. This information is also broken down by daypart to allow you to determine when you’re likely to need this recipe throughout the day. B Setup Note: To see Projected Consumption data, a Sales Forecast for the selected prep date must be entered and saved in Net-Chef. If you aren’t seeing any projected consumption values, make sure you have a sales forecast entered and saved for the current day. Alert: The Projected Consumption button will not be available if any of the following are true: • The Projected Consumption values for this date were imported. • The location is aggregating consumption (the “Aggregate” box is checked for the location’s Recommended Order setup in Enterprise Manager). • The selected Daily Prep transaction originated from KitchenSync. Net-Chef > Production: Create Daily Prep > Continue B z
© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 7 Net-Chef Advanced Daily Prep (Continued) Scale Recipes • Select Scale Recipes to view or print the list of components needed for each prep recipe in this transaction. This list will display the required quantity (in Recipe Units) of each component needed to produce the recipe quantity entered in the “Actual Prod” column. The window will also display any “Special Instructions” associated with each component, as well as each component’s cost, the total cost , and cost per portion of the recipe. C Setup Note: Users must have the “NC-Recipe Cost > View” user group permission enabled to see the recipe cost information in this window. Net-Chef > Production: Create Daily Prep > Continue C z D Tip: Select the Procedure hyperlink to see the prep and plating instructions for this recipe. These instructions are set by your corporate team in Enterprise Manager. D
© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 8 Net-Chef Advanced Daily Prep (Continued) Pre-Production • Select Pre-Production to view or print a list of recipe components that have been identified as pre -production items in Enterprise Manager, along with any denoted “Special Instructions”. An “Action Date” will also be included if the Special Instruction has an associated length of time other than zero. The “Action Time” will let you know when the Special Instruction task needs to be started in order for the component to be ready by the Daily Prep’s Start Time. This allows you to plan for additional preparations that need to be completed before a prep recipe can be started. E Net-Chef > Production: Create Daily Prep > Continue E z
© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 9 Net-Chef Advanced Daily Prep (Continued) Validate Sub-recipes and Components • Select either Validate Sub -Recipes or Validate Components to display any missing prep recipe ingredients that may prevent you from completing the Daily Prep transaction: − Validate Sub -Recipes will check all recipes that contain one or more prep recipes as a component (sub -recipes) and verify whether these sub -recipe products have sufficient “Available” quantities to produce enough for each associated main recipe that has been included for prep. − Validate Components will test whether there is sufficient “Available” quantities of all active, “Major Ingredient” recipe components to produce the entered quantities of the Daily Prep recipes, prior to finalizing the transaction. This includes components of any Daily Prep sub- recipes that are themselves set to deplete by “Component” at the point-of-sale. F Net-Chef > Production: Create Daily Prep > Continue F z Setup Note: Users must have the “NC-Recipe Cost > View” user group permission enabled to see the recipe cost information in this window. Tip: When validating availability, you may receive the following message: “There are no Recipes in this Daily Prep transaction with insufficient Available quantities of any Recipe Components/Sub-Recipe Components” This is a good thing! This message indicates there are enough components or sub -recipes on- hand at your location to complete this prep transaction.
© 2025 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 10 Net-Chef Advanced Daily Prep (Continued) Picklist • Select Picklist to download a PDF containing the list of components along with the appropriate quantities required to make all of the recipes that have an Actual Production quantity entered. This makes it easy to grab all the necessary ingredients before beginning prep. G Net-Chef > Production: Create Daily Prep > Continue G z