Feature Spotlight: Holiday Catering Enhancements

FoodStorm is now live at over 2,900 locations across North America, helping grocery retailers digitize their order management, including food production and omnichannel customer ordering. And the peak time of year FoodStorm helps retailers deliver? The holiday season. This year’s holiday season just got easier with additional weighted items settings for simpler selling and inventory tracking, along with updates to fulfillment functionality for a more streamlined weight reconciliation process for key items, such as Thanksgiving turkeys. Continue reading to learn more about these valuable improvements.

What are FoodStorm’s 2025 Holiday Catering Enhancements?

In preparation for the 2025 holiday season, FoodStorm is enhancing three key sets of functionality to help retailers and their customers:

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Weighted Items Settings:

• For open weight items, such as prime rib cuts, retailers can:
  
  • Configure these items as random or open weight items
  • Set their desired selling increments which is reflected in the quantity picker when customer shop the item and can better reflect increments that these kinds of items are typically sold in (eg. 2.5 lbs per rib, 0.5 lbs per steak)
  • Set order minimums and maximums by weight (5lb min, 17.5lb max)
  • Reconcile the weight of the item sold in one action so the customer is charged once for the total weight of the item (2x 2.5lb cuts of prime rib reconciled for payment at 5lbs of prime rib)
    

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Inventory and Reconciliation:

• Track quantity limits by weight instead of units for random or open weight items
•  When items sell through, their weight is deducted from the overall quantity limit pool to prevent overselling pre-defined tonnage limits

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In-Store Fulfillment via Zebra Devices: 

• New “Scan or Enter UPC” button on Pickup Order screen, which when selected during fulfillment:
  
  • Enables the user to scan or enter the barcode of the item when properly configured
  • Barcode types can be configured at an item-level
  • Checks off a standard item in the order
  • Reconciles weight of a weighted item, then check the item off in the order
  • Prompts to add a new item to the order if no matching UPC
  • Has the 30% weight change warning removed and 5x item weight change blocked

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How can FoodStorm’s 2025 Holiday Catering Enhancements help my grocery perimeter business?

Together, these features provide you with better support for key holiday use cases like Thanksgiving and Christmas Prime Rib and Tenderloins:

• Our configurable weight increments feature provides your customers with better guardrails for how much to order online that better reflects how they’d order in-store
• Enabling this functionality against random or open weight items streamlines the weight reconciliation process for your store team members, reducing the number of times they need to weight reconcile
• Updating our Quantity Limits functionality for random weight items means that you can more accurately track tonnage sell-through for protein items that can be broken down into many forms and sizes, reducing the potential for overselling or shrink

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Finally, enhancing our In-Store Fulfillment flows to provide for barcode-driven weight reconciliation reduces the potential for manual weight entry errors against all weighted items at the Holidays and the potential for overcharging, undercharging and inaccurately tracking stock as well as reducing the time it takes to fulfil an order.

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Tis the season for simpler selling, tracking, and fulfilling!

FoodStorm has almost 20 years of experience in the catering and grocery foodservice technology industry and has helped hundreds of businesses worldwide transform their operations and streamline their processes. Our team continually develops and delivers industry-leading functionality to ensure our retailers can grow and scale their business with ease, especially during peak times such as annual holiday catering seasons.

Contact us today to learn what FoodStorm can do for your grocery perimeter business.