Chef Notepad
Stay in control of your food cost and improve consistency in your kitchen. Chef Notepad is the perfect tool for chefs to store recipes and manage food costs. All your recipes are in one place and accessible from any device. It’s simple, user-friendly and precise.. Lightyear allows you to export extracted ingredient data to Chef Notepad via .CSV file.
Chef Notepad and Lightyear will save your kitchen brigade not only on their COGS, but also their TIME!
Click here to register a free trial of Chef Notepad in minutes, or reach out to their team via the Contact Us page on their site.
Setup in Lightyear
First, you need to switch on the Inventory export feature, to learn how to do so, click here. Once activated, head to Settings > Inventory Settings and select 'Other' from the software dropdown.
Once selected, click 'Export Mappings' as pictured below:
On the next screen, select 'Chef Notepad' from the 'Manage Inventory Export' dropdown and click 'Save' at the top right of the page:
This will pre populate the file format required to import your ingredient purchase data into Chef Notepad successfully. Easy!
Finally, once back on the 'Inventory / POS Settings' screen, select the top option; 'Inventory / POS Settings'
Mandatory Export Fields
By default, Lightyear will prevent you from exporting if your bills are missing a Case Qty or Unit Type, this is all Chef Notepad requires also. Set your Defaults to resemble the following:
Click confirm.
Any bills added to inventory from this point will check that the mandatory fields are met.
These will be flagged in Panel 1 with a warning icon 
. Panel 2 will highlight the fields with mandatory data missing, and users won't be able to export without adding in the missing information.
Once you have made the necessary adjustments, click Save and you will then be able to export.
Inventory Supplier Cards
Chef Notepad does NOT require any supplier details. Everything is driven from the product code and item description.
You are now ready to export purchases to Chef Notepad via the Inventory Tab. Yay!
Creating an Export File
To learn how to create a file that can be imported into Chef Notepad, click here.
Importing into Chef Notepad from Lightyear
Chef Notepad have recorded a quick video explaining how to update your ingredient pricing this can be found here.
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