Fresh pasta and sauce maker Valley Fine Foods for years used spreadsheets and notebooks to track formulas and recipes.
Fresh pasta and sauce maker Valley Fine Foods for years used spreadsheets and notebooks to track formulas and recipes.
2 PagesInspired Foods Prepared With Precision Craig Schauffel has a lot of mouths to feed. Hundreds of thousands, in fact, since that’s the number of filled pasta and sauce servings that roll off the Valley Fine Foods production lines each year. As Vice President of Research & Culinary Innovation and Quality Assurance at Valley Fine Foods, a family-owned fresh pasta, sauce and prepared meal producer in Northern California, “When we look at the time and energy saved as a result of our new formula and recipe man- agement solution, the ROI is easy to calculate. What used to take hours and days to compile and communicate can now be extracted and reported on in a matter of minutes. And we know we’re dealing with the latest details since the master database is automatically updated so we
