Andromeda helps SCOFF deliver good food from a good place

With clients such as The Bombay Bicycle Club, Papa John’s, EasyPizza, Itsu Sushi and Herbies Pizza to name but a few, Andromeda Trading Ltd’s Rameses EPoS is fast becoming the operating system of choice for the food delivery industry.

Andromeda’s most recent project is a more unique take on food delivery. Unlike take-away pizza or fast food, SCOFF in Fulham, London, is about seriously good cooking using the best traditionally farmed ingredients – delivered directly to your door.

SCOFF With a menu full of mouth-watering dishes such as pork sausages in caramelised onion gravy, steak and kidney pudding, slow braised pork chop in a cider and rosemary cream sauce, steaks from traditional single breed beef cattle and side dishes and deserts such as warm apple, almond and calvados cake, it’s clear that SCOFF are passionate about food.

As well as the focus on high quality, great tasting food, SCOFF also concentrates on being delivery experts. All orders are cooked and delivered within 45 minutes.

Steve & Sarah Rushton, owners of SCOFF already own two gastro pubs in Devon The Diggers Rest, a 500 year old thatched pub near Exeter and The Blagdon Inn, near Taunton in Somerset. They originally moved to Devon to open holiday cottages on an old Devon Farm. The Gastro pubs were born out of the frustration of having few good eateries to choose from in the area.

“We were full for 52 weeks of the year ¬the holiday cottages were a great success. Our guests would ask us where they should go to eat and without anywhere we felt we could recommend eventually we thought lets open a good pub.”

The two pubs are very popular, one reason being the great local produce they have sourced for chef’s to use. This interest in good, traditionally farmed ingredients has meant that Steve and Sarah have spent many days sourcing produce direct from farms – having visited the farms and developed relationship with the growers. Both have degrees in Agriculture and have a passion for supporting good traditional farming – they believe that good farming, without the need for intensive systems, pesticides, growth promoters and chemicals has a proven positive effect on the food that we eat and its nutrition value.

“The pork we use comes from traditional saddleback pigs roaming in the woods on Dartmoor. Even commercial free range pork in the UK in many instances has piglets being given regular doses of antibiotics to help them survive away from their mothers as the sales margin that supermarkets require means that farmers have to wean the young earlier than nature intended. We think that the traditional breed, weaned at an older age not only tastes better because it has matured in the way nature intended, but it also makes for a more healthy farming system – away from man-made chemicals introduced to try to fool the life cycle”

SCOFF has been open since mid May 2007 and is proving a great success. With another SCOFF opening in Kingston in September and the SCOFF website due to go live soon (www.scoff.co.uk), things are going from strength to strength.

Andromeda

The team at SCOFF are delighted with the service Andromeda have provided and the two companies have built a strong relationship. SCOFF uses Andromeda’s Rameses EPoS System which gives them a fully featured order taking system with a sophisticated driver dispatching system. The system provides a user-friendly user interface, but is packed with powerful features – inventory & labour cost control, marketing, a full suite of reports on all aspects of the business, two second card processing, SMS messaging on dispatch, free online mapping, integrated 24/7 web ordering and much more.

“We chose Andromeda due to their experience and reputation. We also believe that it’s important to future-proof our business and use professional software and systems. This will enable the business to grow whilst maintaining a professional appearance to our customers”

“We have experienced no blips with the software. It’s user-friendly, simple to use, easy to train staff on and has a great user-interface.”

PC-PoS

All the hardware has been provided by PC-PoS UK Ltd, Europe’s largest EPoS distributor. The venue uses two high-performances, aesthetically pleasing PC-PoS 15 inch touch screen IT1500 integrated units complete with a comprehensive three year warranty. PC-PoS have also supplied Epson Printers a TM-T88IV thermal printer at the front o-house and a TM-U220B high-performance impact printer in the kitchen. Andromeda have also fitted two EBN Flat Panel PCs to the walls in the kitchen at SCOFF which allow the kitchen staff to read orders as they are taken at the front¬ of¬ house. The EBN Flat Panel PCs run on Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Point of Service operating system (WEPOS). WEPOS is an easy¬ to¬ use point of service platform based on Windows technologies now optimised for the retail and hospitality verticals.

“The hardware, provided by PC-PoS is user-friendly and simple and the printers are lovely. We use Epson printers in our other establishments too and they are very reliable”