TrakNOW New Release
In the next few weeks TrakNOW will be releasing a new version. Highlights of the release include: The ability to create an unlimited number of allergens or other ingredients to be tracked with items, recipes and menus. Newly defined allergens will flow at all reports that currently track the system defined allergens. Improvements to our Item/Recipe export including all serving types defined will now populate with nutrients, food based components, allergens (including any newly defined allergens), and...
August 2014
The SNA Annual National Conference in Boston was the culmination to a busy year and we want to thank everyone who visited with us at the booth. We flew the sales team in from all over the country and many of the support team were able to drive up from the corporate office, making this a great opportunity for everyone to put a name to a face. Speaking of which, we kept our social media audience up...
2014 ANC
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User Group Recap
This Spring PCS conducted User Groups in Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas (Dallas & Houston), Minnesota, California, Delaware, and two webinars online. Based on customer feedback we will conduct a TrakNOW only user group on June 15 for customers in California. Thanks for the idea! Conducting the user groups is a major operation for PCS and involved 7 people traveling and many others working behind the scenes at the office.The user groups provide an opportunity for...
Technician of the Month
Betty Zimmerman, Senior TrakNOW Implementation Specialist Congratulations Betty on 8 successful and productive years with PCS! Prior to joining us, Betty had extensive experience as a school cafeteria manger and supervisor in a district with both warehouse, central kitchen, and bakery facilities. Betty then provided food service IT training and support for PCS products in her district, which made joining PCS a natural next step when management changed at her district. As a Sr. Implementation Specialist, Betty...
TrakNOW – New Release
In the near future, TrakNOW will be releasing its annual USDA Child Nutrition (CN)Database version update. This release will include: CN Items updated to the most current version, CN18. The addition of sugar as a nutrient field as well as a field for % Weight from Total Sugar will be included on the nutrition tab of Local and CN items and all nutrition reports. Modifications to Production Records to better accommodate the identification of menu servings offered for students...
Featured Solutions Partner
School Menu - schoolmenu.com For those looking for something more than posting PDF's of menu, recipes and nutrition on the web for parents and nurses, School Menu has a solution. School Menu does the set up and processing of your menus and posts your finished documents, with nutrition, for interactive display on the web. Changes and updates are processed quickly and efficiently for update to the web. Multiple languages are supported, as well. TrakNOW customers can export menus...
June 2014 Newsletter
As the 2013-14 school years comes to a close your PCS team is busy delivering the latest program releases with new features and functions, plus program updates for regulation changes (please see TrakNOW - New Release and POS Hardware - Technical Update, below). Most of this was covered in PCS User Groups directed by Dov Abramson and Tony Diers, who crisscrossed the country in April and May, joined by regional account managers and product specialists....
User Groups Planned
Starting in late April, PCS staff members will be heading to User Group meetings hosted by Customers in various regions. As always, the agenda will include important information about new software releases, new features, new products, and plenty of time for Questions and Answers. A webinar is available for those who are not able to attend. Emails with date, time, local agenda and location are on their way. Please give us your valuable feedback when...
Tech of the Month – April 2014
Eric Garcia Eric is a Support Supervisor with eight years of experience implementing and troubleshooting PCS free and reduced, meal accountability and POS systems. "I don't know where to begin to express the amount of respect I have for Eric Garcia and his skill set. I'm always comfortable and confident that each issue with PCS will be resolved to complete satisfaction whenever he is involved. I've worked with countless support personnel from PCS, as well as, other...